Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Почему никто не хочет идти в российскую армию" video.

A tampon is meant to hold maybe a shot cup of blood. An arterial bleed can pump out more blood than a human has inside the body in 1-2 minutes. It's not the 70s-90s anymore. We learned a lot.
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@garyross4602 No, there isn't an advantage. Quality IFAK components are widely available and CHEAP. At least superglue works for what it's meant to do, and there's medical grade variants of the adhesive. Insisting on using tampons in the year of our Lord 2023 is pure stubbornness.
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@FUG_GOOGL Proper medical gear will help because if you physically hold more pressure against the wound than the arteries can pump, fluid will not flow. Pressure differential is what causes fluid to move.
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@FUG_GOOGL But they're not. You stick a tampon there, you have to then pack it in with more gauze. Just use gauze from the start. The problem with "better than nothing" is that if you truly have nothing, you'll have to rip an undershirt and use the fabric to pack the wound. If you have the tampon, you think it's a neat trick, shove it there, and then bleed out because the tampon does nothing by itself. It's a false sense of security. It's actually worse than nothing.
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@FUG_GOOGL The expansion is minimal. /watch?v=Brfeu2f-LFY This video shows a working model of what bleeding does. The tampon is pushed aside and the fluid just comes out. Gauze is actually made to pack the wound. Plain gauze with no hemostatic agent is actually cheaper than tampons because each gauze roll includes more material than tampons. Please just use gauze.
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@AnnaLuchia No. Arterial blood pressure would ignore the tampon. You have to pack the wound to the point that an artery cannot flow outward at a rate that threatens the injured person.
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This is why I have my own IFAK. I actually get proper first aid equipment so that I don't get this MacGyver crap used on me.
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