SWAT-T™ Tourniquet Black by Safeguard Medical, Emergency First Aid Equipment for Massive Hemorrhage Control, Made in The USA

Great Design! This is approved to stop traumatic bleeding & is a great alternative to the CAT due to its smaller/compact size. This is an original manufacturer product. Great quality, my last one is still being carried daily 4 years later. It is the size of a smaller trifold wallet. You can carry in any pocket without knowing its there. I have one in every bag I use for duty. It can also be used for other reasons than a tourniquet, so you can reduce your items in a medical bag setup. Buy one today!

It’s well-made and well documented, but as I said in the title, I hope I never need them.

*I’m copying and pasting to review two tourniquets here together, pay attention to which one I’m talking about* In the search for less expensive alternatives to the CAT and SOF-T, I found a bunch of different ones. The two I really liked on Amazon were the RATS and the SWAT-T. They work in a different fashion from the traditional windlass variety, but are very simple and very fast. Like anything, you need to practice and get familiar. I haven’t used either in a real scenario as of yet, but have practiced on several adults of all sizes and my 5 and 8 years olds, all on upper and lower extremities, and most verifying absence of pulses by palpation and SpO2 with waveform. No failures with either tourniquet. The SWAT-T I would NOT recommend for SELF aid to the UPPER extremity, it’s doable with practice but slow and not the one I’d want to stake my life on due to the difficulty involved, that’s my only negative finding there. Self aid to lower extremity or buddy aid, no problems at all. Other wise it’s an easy to use, very fast, very effective tourniquet. The RATS takes some getting used to for self application of an upper extremity as well, but a little practice and it’s not bad. The biggest thing there is keeping all the slack out and keeping the bands as close together as possible. Overall, I think I’ll stick with these. Most of the people at work (EMT’s and paramedics) also seemed impressed with them and found them easy to use after a demonstration.

great for pocket carry. i carry this on a my bike. works for many types of uses.

Like most reviews out there this thing may not be your primary if you are looking for a dedicated tourniquet as it is not combat proven/approved/rated. However plenty of reviews say this is a great secondary/back up and has so many other uses it's great to toss in the kit anyways. Primary should be a US made CAT tourniquet or the like as that is actually approved for combat use. But this thing is great for pressure bandages, sling shots, holding random crap together, and just about anything else a strong elastic band can be used for outdoors.

As a Stop the Bleed instructor and local AEMT I have had to use one of these on a child who lost a limb. People are generally taught to use CAT tourniquets which I also carry but I always have a few of these swat T around as well. This can fit any size limb even K9 officers which can’t be achieved by the CAT tourniquet. These are simple to use and have instructions right on it. These are also cost effective if you can’t afford a CAT tourniquet a few of these would be good.

I have purchased several of these to have in first aid kits and range kits. They seem to be well made and can perform the job they are intended for. God forbid this will ever be needed for myself or anyone else in need. I do like to be prepared just in case. I decided to go with this style tourniquet because its not limited to limbs like CAT tourniquets are. This seem to have many options to stop blood loss on multiple areas. Which in my mind was the best option.

Except for the possibility of self administering to a high arm injury, this is about as simple as it gets - take one wrap around and over to capture the starting end, then pull, wrap, pull, wrap, pull, wrap . As I understand it, you need two things to arrest blood loss on a limb - constriction, and width of application. This does both. As an additional benefit - there is no minimum effective size of the area to be treated, big, broad thigh or narrow wrist, no difference - which is not always the case with mechanical tourniquets. It can be used on man, woman or child. It can be used on a dog. It can serve as a wrap to hold a bandage in place. It can be used to wrap a limb securely in a splint. Don't get me wrong, my trauma kits also include a CAT-style TQ for the "worst case", but each kit also has a Swat-T.