Saving Life and Limb with a Combat Application Tourniquet (CAT)

Add a CAT to your Everyday Carry and Elsewhere

Jan 16, 2025

A North American Rescue Combat Application Tourniquet will keep you or your loved one from bleeding out and dying. North American Rescue, the creator and manufacturer of the CAT, is a stellar medical supply company. Their CAT is an essential item for your everyday carry (EDC).

This CAT has saved so many lives it is a modern miracle tool. It is so essential, you must keep one or more CAT’s:

On the visor or your car or truck (in case you role over and need to use it)
In the glove box of your vehicle
In your survival kit in your
In your nightstand
In your bathroom
In your kitchen
In your business
In your sports supplies if you are a coach
In your classroom if you are a teacher
In your church, day care center, nursing home, etc.
Anywhere else a person may cut and bleed out

I recommend the North American Rescue (NAR) NAR C-A-T Tourniquet. It is the official tourniquet of the U.S. Army. That is quite a product endorsement, as they have used it for years to stop the bleeding of wounded American soldiers as it is reliable in extreme and lethal combat situations.

The NAR CAT is designed to effectively stop blood flow from major arteries in both arms and legs. This exponentially increases the chances you will survive in the “Golden Hour” (i.e. the time it takes from experiencing the wound until you are worked on by medical professionals to permanently staunch the bleeding.

With their innovative Red Tip Technology, you can easily locate and thread the tourniquet during application. In fact, most children are able to how to learn how to use it. The reinforced windlass clip and visible security tab enhance its durability. The ribbed end makes sure you can tighten it even when your hands are bloody and sweaty.

To ensure proper monitoring of the injured area, it features a small tab that enables you to write down the application time. It features:

100% effective blood flow occlusion
User-friendly threading technology
Durable construction
Time recording feature
Official Tourniquet of the U.S. Army
Proven to be 100% effective in occluding blood flow in both upper and lower extremities by the U.S. Army’s Institute of Surgical Research
Single Routing Buckle for faster application, decreased blood loss, effective slack removal, fewer windlass turns, and simplified training with single protocol application standards
Includes reinforced windlass, stabilization plate, windlass clip and writeable windlass security strap
Featuring NAR's signature Red Tip Technology® elliptical tab providing added visual clues during application
Exceeds the new ANSI/ISEA Z308.1-2021 Standard for tourniquets

The patented Combat Application Tourniquet® (C-A-T®) featuring the proprietary red tip design and the mechanical advantage of a band within a band has been the Official Tourniquet of the U.S. Army since 2005. Noted as the best prehospital tourniquet in the February 2008 supplement of The Journal of Trauma The patented C-A-T®, it has a years of successful use in hundreds of thousands of emergencies.

It is a true one-handed tourniquet proven to be 100% effective by the U.S. Army’s Institute of Surgical Research. Tests proved that the CAT completely occluded blood flow of an extremity for a traumatic wound with significant hemorrhage.

The Gen 7 CAT uses durable windlass system with a patented free-moving internal band providing true circumferential pressure to the extremity. Once adequately tightened, bleeding will cease and the windlass is locked into place. A hook and loop windlass retention strap is then applied, securing the windlass to maintain pressure during casualty evacuation.

In that Golden Hour, it keeps a patient from bleeding out before they can get medical attention to the wound. Many police, fire fighters, emergency medical technicians (EMTs), and other first responders keep a CAT on their belt, in the car, and at home to help staunch bleeding. Learn from them.

Again, keep a CAT on your sun visor in your vehicle so you can reach it quickly if it turns over on the road.

The CAT Tourniquet uses a durable windlass system with a patented free-moving internal band providing true circumferential pressure to the extremity. Once adequately tightened, bleeding will cease and the windlass is locked into place.

A hook and loop windlass retention strap is then applied, securing the windlass to maintain pressure during casualty evacuation. The tourniquets dual securing system avoids the use of screws and clips that can become difficult to operate under survival scenarios.

Tragically, one of the most overlooked items for use in civil defense is the tourniquet. Unfortunately, I've heard many say, "Why do I need a tourniquet? I'll just use a belt." Not good because patients often bleed out from just using a belt.

Instead, buy several CATs (Combat Application Tourniquet's). The CAT is a life saving tool that has been proven in combat. You can learn to use it and actually apply it in minutes. Why use a belt that does not work when you can use a CAT that has been proven to work?

WARNING: DO NOT buy any of the knock off “CAT Tourniquet’s” sold on Amazon and elsewhere. The innovations in the genuine CAT are protected by U.S. Patent Nos. 7,842,067 and 7,892,253. Neither the Red Chinese nor Amazon respect patent protection because Amazon sells them cheap at $12.99. And this is for two of them. Their tourniquet’s are just another of hundreds of thousands of defective, inferior, stolen technology sold back to us by the Red Chinese via Amazon. Keep in mind that the company that makes this fraudulent CAT knock off is named MAOGENXI, a Red Chinese company, as in the dictator Xi.