(Health-NewsWire.Net, October 30, 2015 ) Clearwater, Florida -- Today Anna Loehwing, COO of First Aid Shoppe, suppliers of professional grade survival and emergency first aid gear, announced that their top selling trauma kit, the ResQue 1st Emergency Trauma Kit with QuikClot, now features latex free nitrile gloves. The kit is intended specifically for treating serious bleeding at the scene of an accident, in order to stabilize an injury until help can arrive, and contains the essential items for doing this. Among those items are medical-grade gloves, to protect the caregiver, and those gloves are now latex free.
"Even helping someone can present dangers," says Ms. Loehwing. "A small percentage of people are actually allergic to latex, and with standard latex gloves you run the risk of causing additional problems from an allergic reaction during treatment. With these Latex-free gloves we've removed that risk."
The ResQue 1st Emergency Trauma Kit by First Aid Shoppe is a compact kit with key items for treating a serious bleeding wound. The centerpiece of the kit is the QuikClot Advanced Clotting Sponge, a hemostatic (clotting) agent designed to accelerate the natural clotting action at the site of an injury. Following the instructions on the pack, the sponge is applied directly to the wound to reduce or stop blood flow. The idea behind the sponge is to stabilize a serious injury long enough for professional help to be sought. The hemostatic agent used in the QuikClot sponge has been approved for use by the US Department of Defense, and is in use by all four branches of the Military.
"The kit is small, and meant to be kept with your other first aid items," says Ms. Loehwing. "Or solo, in the glove box, or in a drawer, in your backpack -- wherever you might need it quickly to hand. In a life-threatening emergency this could be the thing that makes the difference."
The ResQue 1st Emergency Trauma Kit is available on Amazon, and includes latex-free gloves in its list of items.
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Anna Loehwing
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