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IFAK V2 Refill Supply Kit
I consulted with medical professionals and combat lifesavers to build this kit. I stand by and produce only the products that I use myself as a soldier. Military grade components in this IFAK refill kit made for civilians, first responders, and military. Anyone can save a life with this Individual First Aid Kit. Civilians, Outdoor Enthusiasts, Teachers, First Responders, and Military Personnel. Everything in this refill med kit is geared toward controlling bleeding, dressing the wound, packing the wound, preventing infection, opening airways, and shock prevention until first responders arrive. Z-Fold Compressed Gauze to pack wound, NPA Nasopharyngeal Airway to open airway, Combat Tourniquet to stop bleeding, Israeli Compression Bandage to control bleeding, Chest Seal to close sucking chest wound, Trauma Shears to cut clothing, Antiseptic Wipes to prevent infections, First Aid Bandages for cuts and scrapes, and much more included! ZERO risk purchase and 100% Satisfaction Guarantee.To get more news about quickclot combat gauze, you can visit rusuntacmed.com official website.
The Elite IFAK has been specifically designed by EB Military to hold materials required to respond to haemostatic emergencies. Items are held securely in place by elasticated strapping and a full length zip allows for the pack to be folded open, fully exposing the contents for easy access.
A system of quick release buckles, hook & loop tapes and elasticated strapping allow for the pack to be securely attachment to a leg and prevents it moving or slipping, even when a user is running.
This Individual First Aid Kit (IFAK) Pouch was originally designed to provide soldiers with a set of compact, easy-to-carry tools to treat battlefield injuries. This Pouch would normally house first-aid items to treat shrapnel wounds and other injuries, but this one's empty…and waiting for you to determine its purpose. Use it to carry binoculars or game calls, store travel accessories, or haul whatever items you need within easy reach. Also includes the matching Tourniquet Pouch (also empty) for a one-two punch of versatile gear-hauling potential.
Best Compact IFAK: New Blackhawk Foundation Rapid-Deployment Kit
One of my favorite courses I attended during my time in the U.S. Army was the Combat Lifesaver Course (CLS). Of all the skills I learned throughout my enlistment, the CLS course is arguably the most practical for civilian life. The CLS course isn’t as in-depth as the training for a medic or even a first responder/EMS course, but we learned the basics to keep someone alive long enough for proper medial care. The CLS course revolves primarily around the individual first-aid kit, or IFAK, like the Blackhawk Foundation Series IFAK featured in this article.To get more news about hemostat dressing, you can visit rusuntacmed.com official website.
IFAKs come in many different shapes and sizes, but I am a big fan of this Blackhawk Foundation Series IFAK for general civilian everyday carry (EDC). It’s compact enough to easily conceal, and it’s designed for rapid access in an emergency. Despite its size, I can pack the minimum medical essentials I consider necessary for an everyday carry IFAK. Before we get more into the Blackhawk IFAK, let’s break down some realistic scenarios why one might want to carry a compact IFAK on a normal day.
First, it’s important to remember the primary role of an IFAK, which is clearly stated in its description — Individual. An IFAK should be set up first and foremost for the individual carrying it. That’s not to say you should be stingy with your medical supplies if you come across someone in need. But, much like a drowning man pulling under the person trying to save him, you need to be able to take care of yourself before you can worry about helping others. Don’t confuse the role of an IFAK with a bigger medical kit set up to care for others.
An EDC IFAK is also going to be quite different from a combat IFAK. Those are generally bigger and designed to carry more medical supplies, and they’re not practical for concealed carry. It’s also highly unlikely you will face as extreme a situation as extended combat in civilian life, so it’s reasonable to sacrifice capacity for concealability and comfort for general everyday carry.
For those who conceal carry a pistol every day, like me, the first consideration for a compact IFAK is an injury during a defensive gunfight. There are countless situations where one can win a defensive fight but still become injured. Gunshot wounds are extremely traumatic, but provided one hasn’t been shot directly in the heart or brain, they can be surprisingly survivable with immediate medical care.
While a gunshot wound is often the first use-case scenario when I consider using my IFAK, it’s one of the most unlikely scenarios I’d face. As long as you’re not an active gang member, it is incredibly rare to be injured by gunshot in the U.S., despite what the media reports. What does happen every day are vehicle crashes, heavy machinery accidents, worksite accidents and dozens of other scenarios where one could face an injury that requires more than a basic first-aid kit. Even if you don’t carry a firearm for self-defense, a compact IFAK could still save your life in any number of situations.
As long as air can enter your lungs, you’re breathing properly and you don’t have excessive blood leaving your body, there is a solid chance you are currently alive. However one might be severely injured, if you can control the ABCs right away, then there is a high probability of survivability once you get to a doctor. Fortunately, it doesn’t really take many supplies to control the ABCs during a severe injury.
Let’s start with circulation. If you are operating a chainsaw, heavy equipment or are near anything that could sever an artery, you are a fool to do so without a good tourniquet. From combat and car crashed to loggers and construction sites, modern CAT tourniquets have saved many lives, and a minimum of two should be in your IFAK. Most experienced EMS personnel will tell you that if you need to apply one tourniquet, then it’s likely you will need to apply two. Even if you have severe bleeding on just one appendage, it can often take two tourniquets to properly stem the bleeding. Tourniquets can stay on for hours before you need to worry about permanent limb damage, so when it doubt, apply a tourniquet.
MEDICAL KITS FOR UKRAINIAN MILITARY PERSONEL WILL ADHERE TO NEW
The Ukrainian MoD’s Medical Department invited NGOs and volunteer organizations to help develop new technical requirements for individual first-aid kits used at the frontline of military operations. Experts from the Independent Anti-Corruption Committee on Defense (NAKO), a joint initiative of TI Ukraine and TI Defence & Security, took part in their development, providing input on how to reduce corruption risk. The MOD granted final approval for the technical requirements last week, and Ukrainian servicemen should receive their new first-aid kits this autumn.To get more news about hemostat dressing, you can visit rusuntacmed.com official website.
The need to develop new technical requirements arose as military and volunteers repeatedly complained about the poor quality of individual first-aid kits (IFAKs) used at the front. Previous IFAK components had been approved in February 2015. However, the list of components for the first-aid kit was less comprehensive, and the standards lower, than those used in NATO countries. In addition, the IFAK technical requriments was often developed by the IFAK manufacturers themselves, meaning that they could shape the MOD’s procurement requirements to suit what they could provide. The new specifications allow the MoD to require manufacturers to ensure each component of the kit is of the highest standard of quality.
The MoD began work on creating new technical requrements for IFAKs in September 2016. Initially, the key stakeholders in the process were representatives of the Ministry of Defense and Ukrainian manufacturing companies, but this approach created significant corruption risks.
But in April 2017, the MOD changed its approach, creating a separate working group in order to minimise the influence of pharmaceutical companies and to avoid corruption risks. This new working group created by the Ministry of Defence included leading medical experts, NGO representatives and volunteer organisations, as well as NAKO experts. This group of experts have worked together alongside the MOD to improve the technical requirements of the first-aid kits to match the NATO standards.
“We insisted on minimising corruption risks. Previously, there was a risk that the specifications would match the preferences of a particular manufacturer, rather than respond to real frontline needs,” said Taras Yemchura, a NAKO researcher. “This could also lead to discrimination against particular participants in the procurement process. For example, we pushed for the abolition of unlawful requirements for special markings on the product packaging, which does not actually affect the quality of the goods, but significantly reduces the range of potential suppliers.”
In the future, NAKO intends to continue monitoring the process of IFAK purchasing, scrutinising the formation of lots, bidding, contracting, and quality control.
The committee is convinced that the active participation of independent experts and high-quality public monitoring of each procurement stage will help counteract corruption risks in the procurement of first-aid kits, decrease the risk of poor-quality goods being supplied, and will help save the lives of soldiers who fight in the Donbass.
Systematic review of prehospital haemostatic dressings
Introduction Haemorrhage is one of the leading causes of battlefield and prehospital death. Haemostatic dressings are an effective method of limiting the extent of bleeding and are used by military forces extensively. A systematic review was conducted with the aim of collating the evidence on current haemostatic products and to assess whether one product was more effective than others.To get more news about quickclot combat gauze, you can visit rusuntacmed.com official website.
Methods A systematic search and assessment of the literature was conducted using 13 health research databases including MEDLINE and CINAHL, and a grey literature search. Two assessors independently screened the studies for eligibility and quality. English language studies using current-generation haemostatic dressings were included. Surgical studies, studies that did not include survival, initial haemostasis or rebleeding and those investigating products without prehospital potential were excluded.
Results 232 studies were initially found and, after applying exclusion criteria, 42 were included in the review. These studies included 31 animal studies and 11 clinical studies. The outcomes assessed were subject survival, initial haemostasis and rebleeding. A number of products were shown to be effective in stopping haemorrhage, with Celox, QuikClot Combat Gauze and HemCon being the most commonly used, and with no demonstrable difference in effectiveness.
Conclusions There was a lack of high-quality clinical evidence with the majority of studies being conducted using a swine haemorrhage model. Iterations of three haemostatic dressings, Celox, HemCon and QuikClot, dominated the studies, probably because of their use by international military forces and all were shown to be effective in the arrest of haemorrhage.
CaCO3–Chitosan Composites Granules for Instant Hemostasis and Wound Healing
Excessive bleeding induces a high risk of death and is a leading cause of deaths that result from traffic accidents and military conflict. In this paper, we developed a novel porous chitosan–CaCO3 (CS–CaCO3) composite material and investigated its hemostatic properties and wound healing performance. The CS–CaCO3 composites material was prepared via a wet-granulation method. Granulation increases the infiltrating ability of the CS–CaCO3 composites material. The improved water absorption ability was enhanced to 460% for the CS–CaCO3 composites material compared to the CaCO3 or chitosan with only one single component. The coagulation studies in vivo illustrated that the blood clotting time was greatly reduced from 31 s for CaCO3 to 16 s for the CS–CaCO3 composite material. According to the results of the wound healing experiments in rats, it was found that the CS–CaCO3 composite material can promote wound healing. The CS–CaCO3 composite material could accelerate wound healing to a rate of 9 days, compared with 12 days for the CaCO3. The hemostatic activity, biocompatibility, and low cost of CS–CaCO3 composite material make it a potential agent for effective hemostatic and wound healing materials.To get more news about quickclot combat gauze, you can visit rusuntacmed.com official website.
Hemorrhaging is a leading cause of deaths that result from traffic accidents and military conflict [1,2]. In hospitals, hemorrhage causes 15–25% of trauma deaths. A lot of hemostatic materials are used for hemorrhage controlling [3,4], which can be divided into inorganic materials [5,6,7] and organic polymer materials [8]. Inorganic materials include WoundStat, QuikClot, and Combat Gauze and polymer materials include Celox, Celox-D, HemCon, which are all commercially available products for hemostatic wound healing. However, the inorganic materials have many disadvantages, e.g., in the first generation of inorganic hemostatic materials, QuikClot caused high exothermic reactions and induced tissue empyrosis and other abnormal foreign-body reactions [9,10], and another inorganic material, WoundStat, induced thrombus in lungs and vessels [11,12]. Additionally, the poor adhesion of Combat Gauze made more blood loss [13]. Therefore, research is necessary to find more effective hemostatic agents.
Thrombin is an enzyme which can support earlier fibrin generation in the “waterfall reaction” of blood clotting. Calcium ions have the function to form thrombin and then activate the coagulation system. At the same time, intracellular Ca2+ can cause phosphatidyl serines to be exposed on platelet surfaces, and further help to assemble coagulation complexes and amplify the formation of thrombin [14,15]. Ca2+ can also stop bleeding by increasing clot rigidity. Similar to the benefit of Ca2+, CaCO3 also has good biocompatibility and potential for applications in medicine. In traditional Chinese medicine, cuttlebone, a kind of traditional hemostatic material that consists of CaCO3 is orally administered and can rapidly stop bleed [16,17,18,19,20,21]. Accordingly, developed hemostatic materials based on CaCO3 have been investigated for tissue repairing and rapid wound closure [22,23]
Chitosan is an inexpensive natural-origin polymer that has been widely used in clinics for its biodegradability, biocompatibility and antimicrobial activities [24,25]. Chitosan also has been widely investigated because of its hemostatic function [26,27,28,29,30]. The protonated amine groups of chitosan have a static interaction with the negative charge of red blood cells and platelets that induces formation of thrombus [31]. Chitosan also has good water absorption ability to facilitate hemostasis by blood coagulation factors and concentrating platelets [32,33,34]. Some commercially available materials have been developed based on chitosan as hemostatic agents such as Celox, TraumaStat, HemCon and so on. Chitosan-based materials demonstrated effective and safe properties for trauma application [35]. However, chitosan hemostatic materials cannot be used to treat wounds with heavy bleeding, because chitosan materials have no adhesion and may be washed away by blood, or chitosan materials may enter the blood vessels of the wound and cause thrombosis [36].