How to Order Stop the Bleed Kits and Emergency Aid Stations

You can order Stop the Bleed kits and ACS Emergency Aid Stations directly through stopthebleed.org — the site has both an Order Kits & Stations section and a Shop entry in its main navigation. The kits are designed so that anyone, trained or not, can control life-threatening bleeding; the Emergency Aid Stations bundle multiple lifesaving tools into one high-visibility hub. Before you buy, decide whether you need individual kits (for a bag, vehicle, or classroom) or a station (for a wall in a hallway, lobby, or jobsite), and how many people each unit needs to cover.

What the two product types are for

The site describes two distinct offerings, and picking the right one is the main decision:

The kit is the portable, single-purpose option. The station is the fixed, shared option. If your goal is "one kit per person" or "one kit per room," go with kits. If your goal is "anyone in this building can find and use this in an emergency," the station's high-visibility design is the point.

Steps to order

1. Go to stopthebleed.org and use the Shop or Order Kits & Stations entry in the top navigation.
2. Choose the product type — kit or Emergency Aid Station — based on the table above.
3. Confirm what's in the kit or station before checkout, so it matches the bleeding-control techniques you expect to use (the site's "How to Control Bleeding" section covers the three core techniques).
4. Decide quantity by counting the locations or people you're equipping, not just the number of buildings.
5. Complete the order through the shop.

The site does not publish pricing on the pages reviewed here, so treat cost as something you confirm in the shop itself rather than assuming a figure.

Should you get trained first?

The site's own framing suggests yes, and it's cheap to do: "Get trained to Stop the Bleed with an ACS course," and you can Find a Course from the homepage. The program says more than 5 million people have been trained, and it positions itself as the original U.S. Department of Defense STOP THE BLEED® partner.

Training matters for a practical reason: a kit you don't know how to open and apply under pressure is just equipment. The site demonstrates the techniques — including work by Megan Quintana, MD, FACS — so you can see what the kit contents are meant to do before you buy.

Why this is worth doing at all

The site's stated rationale is blunt: bleeding is the #1 cause of preventable death after injury, and 80% of operating-room deaths within 24 hours of trauma are due to severe blood loss. It also notes 17 states have passed bleeding control legislation and 168 countries are teaching the program. Those numbers are the argument for putting kits and stations where injuries actually happen — not in a supply closet.

There are also real-world cases on the site: a Georgia instructor used an ACS Stop the Bleed kit to save a stranger after a motorcycle accident; first responders used bleeding control skills on one of their own after a training-exercise neck injury; and crash survivor Vansh Patel became an advocate, saying "tourniquets save lives." These illustrate the intended use case — the kit is for the minutes before professional help arrives.

Common snags

• Buying kits but never training. The site pairs "Get Trained" with "Order Kits & Stations" for a reason; do both.
• One kit for a whole building. A single kit in a large facility may be too far away to reach in time. Match quantity to locations and traffic.
• Skipping the station when visibility is the problem. In a public or shared space, the high-visibility hub is the feature that makes the equipment findable under stress.
• Assuming a price or free shipping. Not stated on the pages reviewed — check the shop.