Adventure Medical Kits
Littleton, New Hampshire, 1989 — first-aid kits laid out by injury rather than by item, built in the same house as SOL, Counter Assault and the consumer QuikClot line.
QuikClot
Hemostatic dressings — choose the specific product for its labeled use and your training.
QuikClot hemostatic dressings span professional and consumer product lines. Compare the exact package, intended use, labeling, and expiry date.
- Rx onlyquikclot.com's own footer — federal law restricts these devices to sale or use by or on the order of a physician
What we'd reach for
- QuikClot Combat GauzeThe best-known product in the line, and the one named in the FDA Class 2 recall recorded below. Indications, contraindications and warnings live in the product's own labeling, not here.
- QuikClot Control+Listed by Teleflex under De Novo authorization DEN160012 — a distinct regulatory pathway from the 510(k) clearances covering other items in the line.
- Consumer-packaged QuikClotSold through outdoor retail inside Adventure Medical Kits packaging. Which SKUs are over-the-counter and which are prescription-controlled is a per-product question answered by the package, not by the brand.
QuikClot is a hemostatic dressing brand with professional and consumer product lines. The useful distinction is the exact dressing and its labeled use: a familiar name on two packages does not make their instructions interchangeable.
Professional and consumer packages
QuikClot’s professional site and Adventure Medical Kits serve different purchasing contexts. Compare the precise product name, intended use, instructions, restrictions, and expiry date. A consumer package should not be treated as interchangeable with every product in the professional line.
What Teleflex says the product is
In Teleflex’s own words on the QuikClot site, the technology is “a proprietary technology, which consists of a non-woven material impregnated with Kaolin,” and “Kaolin activates Factor XII, which in turn accelerates the clotting cascade leading to faster bleeding control.”
That is the manufacturer’s description of the mechanism. Everything about when, whether and how any such product is used belongs to the product’s own labeling and to training — this page does not paraphrase either, and neither should a retailer.
The site lists regulatory identifiers for the professional line: 510(k) K123387, 510(k) K072474, and De Novo DEN160012 for QuikClot Control+. Its footer states: “Federal (USA) law restricts these devices to sale or use by or on the order of a physician.”
The recall record
FDA’s device recall database records recall Z-0211-2022: a Class 2 recall by Z-Medica, LLC covering QuikClot Combat Gauze, part number 200, for “Lack of Packaging seal integrity may result in a sterile barrier breach.” It was initiated 22 September 2021, covered 2,400 units in commerce, and FDA records it as terminated on 11 June 2024. A packaging-seal recall on a sterile product is a real event and a closed one; it is recorded here because a closed recall handled properly is a better signal than silence.
What to check before buying
Choose the exact dressing for its labeled use and the training you have received. Check package integrity, expiry, source, and any applicable product notice. Keep the instructions with the supplies. A brand guide cannot substitute for the device labeling or bleeding-control training.
Where QuikClot fits
Hemostatic dressings are a training-first category. The gear is downstream of a course, which is the same reason North American Rescue sells trainers alongside tourniquets. Kit builders will meet QuikClot inside packages from Adventure Medical Kits, My Medic and Chinook Medical — in each case the component’s own labeling, expiry date and status govern, not the bag it arrived in.
Ownership
Teleflex acquired Z-Medica in December 2020. For any specific dressing, use the manufacturer and support details on the current package.
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My Medic
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North American Rescue
Greer, South Carolina, 1996 — the company behind the C-A-T tourniquet, and the loudest voice warning that counterfeit copies of it have reached responders and failed.