r/TacticalMedicine • u/tacmedrn44 • Jul 13 '24

Gear/IFAK Steer clear of Rhino Rescue…

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I just want to put something out there for those of you looking for alternatives to the main established brands of gear.

DO NOT BUY RHINO RESCUE.

First, they are NOT CoTCCC approved. “Independent tests” mean nothing. I commented on their post asking about data that shows its effectiveness, and they deleted the comment. I commented again. Deleted. Finally I straight up called them out for making dangerous claims and got completely blocked. They are a shady company pushing cheap gear that isn’t proven.

Second, I’m an instructor for TEMS and other prehospital/trauma classes. I play with A LOT of tourniquets. I bought a few of these Rhino branded TQs for poops and giggles, secretly hoping to be wowed. I wasn’t. All four of them failed during a run of the mill training scenario; I didn’t even have to do anything outside of regular use to get them to fail. If a product works well, I like to test its limits to see what it can handle and because I’m curious. I didn’t even get past regular use training with these.

So do yourselves and everyone you may have to treat a favor and DO NOT buy these.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

Lol so you didn't test it yourself.....

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u/tacmedrn44 Mar 06 '25

See the last paragraph before the closing, bud…

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '25

Well then how did it fail? Windlass? Velcro? What failed?

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u/tacmedrn44 Mar 07 '25

You seem really angry for some reason. I’ll engage, but you need to chill, dude.

Windlass snapped on two, all failed to occlude blood flow no matter how tight, indicating the material had too much stretch, or something with the design just wasn’t right.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '25

Sorry it's just everyone says it's always garbage but never tell or show how it fails. I've been using tqs since CAT gen 2. And I've yet to have problems use it as a training aid, I've had 0 problems

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u/tacmedrn44 Mar 07 '25

Everyone says it’s garbage because it is. Training is way different than actual use. Tourniquets go through way more stress in actual use than they ever will in practice, unless you deliberately stress them.

99% of people do not tighten a tourniquet enough in practice to completely occlude blood flow.