I highly advise for everyone to have a IFAK and medical supplies in close proximity. Either in your vehicle and home or like me I keep in both.
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Always have a IFAK or medical supplies in close proximity.
- Thread starter Zen_Life
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Gotta know how to use it tho, just having it ain't gonna be no good
What supplies make up your kit?
I’m not saying that you don’t OP. But a lot of people treat first aid kits like a good luck charm. A trauma scene is not a great place to figure out how to use a kit.
Very true! Luckily I know how to use everything I got. I should’ve added that into my post for all the newbions.
Trust me I see that all the time. Lol. I had to teach some of my close friends that spent a ton of money on medical supplies and had no idea how to use it. Same goes with spending 1k on a Gucci Glock and not even being able to have accurate shots or good grouping.
Let me add to the list, pre-staging. Knowing how to use a tourniquet is one thing. Suddenly realizing you need to be able to free it from shrink wrap while you're covered in blood can be a fatal mistake. Break it out of the wrapper, open it to the largest opening in your scenario and tuck it back in the kit.
In my personal IFAK I got 2 chest seals, combat gauze , trauma dressing, medical gloves, CAT Tourniquet. Only thing I’m missing is trauma shears.
