One pad big enough for an open abdomen or a stump, and a pressure bar you choose to use — the decision is the wound, not the bandage.
At a glance
12 things to know about the 8 in. Emergency Bandage
What the large pad is for, when the pressure bar goes on and when it stays off, and where it fits beside the tourniquet.
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A 12 × 12 in. pad on an 8 in. leader
The pad measures 12 × 12 in. (30 × 30 cm) and is attached to an 8 in. (20 cm) wide elastic leader; the whole bandage is 75 in. (190 cm) long unstretched, pad included. The leader is OD green and the pad white.3
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Pressure on, or pressure off
The integrated pressure bar can put direct pressure on an amputation or a large-area wound, or be bypassed so the pad covers a wound without pressing on it — PerSys designed that choice for eviscerations.3
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Made for eviscerations
PerSys built the 8 in. for extended coverage and containment of eviscerated organs.3 The TCCC Guidelines set the sequence: control bleeding, rinse gross contamination, and cover exposed bowel with a moist, sterile dressing or a sterile, water-impermeable covering — never force organs back in.1 Bypass the pressure bar over the abdomen.
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Amputations: tourniquet first, then the bandage
Any traumatic amputation of an arm or leg gets a limb tourniquet, even one that is barely bleeding.1 The 8 in. then covers the stump and, with the pressure bar, compresses it.3 It does not replace the tourniquet.
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Chosen for the Army's vehicle trauma kit
DLA catalogs NSN 6510-01-532-6656 as an elastic abdominal wound bandage kit — high-absorbency pad, extra-wide secondary dressing and application bar — selected for the U.S. Army's vehicle-mounted Warrior Aid and Litter Kit.6
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Same family, same closure
It shares the Emergency Bandage design: elasticized wrapping leader, Stop-N-Go® release for controlled wrapping and a simple closure bar.3 Bernard Bar-Natan invented the Emergency Bandage in Israel in 1993, and the U.S. military made it standard issue in 2003.9
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Who makes it today
First Care Products Ltd. of Rosh HaAyin, Israel, is the FDA-registered manufacturer.5 Safeguard Medical acquired PerSys Medical in 20218 and sells the 8 in. as part of The Israeli Bandage® family.4
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Never pack the chest or abdomen
Deep limb and junctional wounds are packed before they are wrapped: power ball first, directly on the bleeding vessel, every corner filled, then the bandage over the packing. An open abdomen is covered, not packed.
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Hands first, then the bandage
Direct pressure with your hands starts bleeding control fastest: a systematic review found manual pressure reached hemostasis sooner than pressure dressings, at very low certainty.12 The bandage takes over that pressure — or that coverage — and frees your hands for the next casualty.
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Watch the pressure on a limb
In a sensor study of 124 emergency providers, Israeli bandages produced the highest peak pressures of the bandages tested and passed 250 mmHg in 28% of applications; providers' sense of tightness did not match the measurement.11 On a limb, check circulation below the bandage and loosen it if the hand or foot turns cool, blue or numb, or loses its pulse.7
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FDA listing and Clinical evaluation
FDA lists the bandage under product code GAX, nonpneumatic tourniquet: Class I, exempt from 510(k).10 The Evidence-Based Standard Devices & Adjuncts list has no pressure-bandage category, so it is not evidence-based standard;2 absence from the list does not by itself mean a product was tested and failed.
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Eight years, and a cold-weather version
Shelf life is 8 years.3 Safeguard rates its cold-weather (CWG) versions — and versions without the pressure applicator — for −40 °C to +60 °C (−40 °F to 140 °F) for up to 7 days;4 the 8 in. cold-weather bandage is FCP-09CWG, NSN 6510-01-659-8421.4,6
How to apply the 8 in. Emergency Bandage
Two jobs, one bandage: compression for a large wound or stump, coverage without pressure for an evisceration.
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1Tourniquet first on a limb. Life-threatening limb bleeding, and any traumatic amputation, gets a tourniquet. Under threat, or when you cannot see the source: hasty — high and tight, over clothing. Once the wound is exposed: deliberate — on bare skin 2–3 in. above the wound, never across a joint.1
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2Pack a deep limb or junctional wound. Power ball first on the bleeding vessel, every corner filled. Hold pressure at least 3 minutes for hemostatic gauze, or its labeled time;1 at least 10 minutes for plain gauze; or until the bleeding stops — best practice is to hold until someone relieves you. Never pack the chest or abdomen.
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3Evisceration: cover the organs. Control bleeding, rinse gross contamination with clean fluid if you can, and cover exposed bowel with a moist, sterile dressing or a sterile, water-impermeable covering. Do not force organs back in.1
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4Center the pad. Place the 12 × 12 in. pad over the wound, the packing or the covered organs.3
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5Use the bar — or bypass it. Over a large wound or a stump, feed the leader through the pressure bar and reverse it back over the top to drive pressure onto the pad.3,7 Over eviscerated organs, bypass the bar and wrap for coverage only.3
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6Wrap and lock. Wrap with short tugs until the pad edges are covered, then hook the closure bar into the leader.7
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7Check it. On a limb, check color, warmth, feeling and the pulse below the bandage and loosen it if they are lost.7 On the abdomen, recheck the covering for bleeding.
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8If it soaks through. Over a shallow wound, or one not deep enough to pack, leave the bandage on and add dressing and pressure on top. A packed wound that keeps bleeding is different: remove the packing, find the source, and repack.1
Where it fits
- Covering and containing eviscerated abdominal organs, pressure bar bypassed1,3
- Compressing a large-area wound with the pressure bar3
- Covering and compressing an amputation stump once the tourniquet is on1,3
- Holding pressure over a large packed wound
- Life-threatening limb bleeding or a traumatic amputation without a tourniquet — tourniquet first1
- Packing into the chest or abdomen — never
- Pressing on eviscerated organs — bypass the bar
- An open chest wound — use a vented chest seal, or a non-vented seal if no vented seal is available1
The evidence
The studies below tested the Emergency Bandage design and pressure dressings as a class; the 8 in. shares the design's pressure bar and closure.
| Study | Evidence type | What was studied | What it found |
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| Shipman & Lessard, Mil Med 2009 | Human · pressure measurement | Emergency Bandage with and without its pressure bar on the arm; sensors under the bar and at 90°, 180° and 270° around the limb | The bar raised pressure directly under it without raising it elsewhere; fingertip refill and wrist pulse stayed adequate — no full tourniquet effect |
| Brauckmann et al., Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg 2026 | Simulation · pressure sensors | 124 emergency providers (116 analyzed) applying pressure dressings of their choice over calibrated sensors | Israeli bandages highest peak pressure, 205 ± 98 mmHg; above 250 mmHg in 28% of applications vs 11.1% medium-stretch and 1.6% elastic bandages |
| Charlton et al., Prehosp Emerg Care 2021 | Expert review · systematic review | 107 studies, 22,798 patients, of first-aid bleeding control; 8 studies of pressure dressings, bandages or devices | Direct manual pressure reached hemostasis faster than pressure dressings or devices; certainty of evidence very low |
| Schauer et al., Prehosp Disaster Med 2017 | Human · combat case series | 50 casualties of mass-casualty events in Afghanistan | Tourniquets and pressure dressings were the most common prehospital interventions; 97% of the 36 with follow-up were discharged alive |
Strongest to weakest: human data, then simulation, with the review weighing very-low-certainty studies. Shipman tested the Emergency Bandage's pressure bar; the case-series and review data cover pressure dressings as a class.11,12,13,14
How it compares
The 8 in. beside the other Emergency Bandage formats.
| 8 in. Large Wound (FCP-09) | 6 in. (FCP-02) | 4 in. (FCP-01) | T3 (FCP-T3) | |
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| Sterile pad | 12 × 12 in. (30 × 30 cm) | 6 × 7 in. (15 × 18 cm) | 4 × 7 in. (10 × 18 cm) | 4 × 7 in. (10 × 18 cm), plus a detachable second pad of the same size |
| Elastic wrap (manufacturer figure) | 8 in. wide; 75 in. (190 cm) unstretched, including the pad | 145 in. (370 cm) | 145 in. (370 cm) | 145 in. (370 cm), expanded |
| Pressure bar | Used for large wounds and amputations; bypassed over eviscerations | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Built for | Eviscerations, large-area wounds, amputations | Wounds needing a wider pad | Compact individual kits | Entry and exit wounds; extra gauze |
| NSN | 6510-01-532-6656 | 6510-01-492-2275 | 6510-01-460-0849 | 6510-31-017-2058 |
| evidence-based standard | No | No | No | No |
8 in. figures from PerSys Medical;3 4 in. and 6 in. figures from Safeguard Medical;15,16 T3 figures from PerSys Medical.17 The evidence-based device list has no pressure-bandage category.2
Build the system
The tourniquet and gauze that come first, the smaller Emergency Bandages, a chest seal, a wrap, an alternative abdominal dressing and a trainer.
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