TRAMEDIC Bleeding Control Kit for Schools

Is the Tramedic Bleeding Control Kit actually used in schools?

Yes. The Tramedic® Bleeding Control Kit is the exact kit deployed statewide in South Carolina public schools, with over 19,000 kits distributed for the 2018–2019 school year. The kit was selected through a formal evaluation process conducted by Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System, MUSC, Palmetto Health, Grand Strand Health, SC DHEC, and the state's HPP Advisory Council — and has been in use in every South Carolina public school since that deployment.

Does the Tramedic School Kit contain CoTCCC-recommended items?

Yes. The kit includes the CoTCCC-recommended SOF® Tactical Tourniquet Wide in Rescue Orange for extremity hemorrhage control. The Rescue Orange color was deliberately chosen to help untrained users, including students and teachers, quickly identify and apply the tourniquet without prior training. The ChitoGauze XR Pro hemostatic agent provides evidence-based wound packing capability for junctional and non-tourniquet wounds.

How do the kit instructions help someone with no medical training?

The instruction sheet uses a triage prioritization approach: it directs users to address arterial spurting blood first (tourniquet application), then oozing dark red blood (direct pressure with gauze and hemostatic agent). This decision tree eliminates the need for medical knowledge by telling users exactly which injury type requires which treatment — a design validated by the state healthcare systems that selected the kit for statewide deployment.

Where can the Tramedic School Kit be stored?

The kit is specifically designed to fit in a classroom cabinet, a teacher's desk drawer, or a student's backpack. The compact red pouch provides high-visibility identification — making the kit easy to locate in an emergency — while the small profile allows distributed staging throughout a school building without requiring dedicated storage infrastructure.

What is the Tramedic Bleeding Control Patch for?

The Tramedic® Bleeding Control Patch provides post-use identification — it indicates that the kit has been opened and the contents have been used. This allows school staff, administrators, or safety officers performing routine inspections to quickly identify kits that need resupply without opening every kit for inspection. It is part of a complete kit accountability system.