#ifak

If you plan on going to any Pride events next month NOW is the time to order/buy supplies and put together an IFAK (Individual First Aid Kit).

You'll want a CAT tourniquet or two, clotting factor impregnated gauze (NOT clotting powder!), z folded gauze, and a couple vented chest seals. Maybe a pair of nurse's shears too, they're very cheap.

You want to purchase these things from North American Rescue. At least the tourniquets. Cheap alternative tourniquets have a high failure rate. Improvised tourniquets almost always fail. You want a CAT from North American Rescue so when it happens, where it happens, you have the best possible chance of your friend not bleeding out in your arms.

You'll want to take a Stop The Bleed class. You can do this online if none are available in person.

I'm a certified EMT and Stop The Bleed instructor. People do not survive hemorrhages long enough for people like me to get on scene, and police often prevent first responders from entering scenes. You are the only one coming to save your friends. You need to be ready to do that. Once the attacker is down - and it won't be the police who stop him - you need to act or if you can't you need to yell "I have an IFAK in my bag" so someone else can.

Another attack will come. It's only a matter of where and when. Buy the things, put them in a little pouch, and keep them with you at these events.

And you’re stupid. 

This is something I said before, and I always get a chuckle out of the one moron who came into my comments with “If I shoot him, I’m sure as hell ain’t gonna go try to patch him up.” because in his hero power fantasy, I guess he saw the guy with the gun and shot him before any single other person got shot. Which is a nice fantasy, and sure it’s possible, but it’s idiotic to think that it’s always gonna be that neat and clean. 

I don’t think you’re gonna be patching him up, I’m assuming you killed him. I think the 12 year old down the road who got hit in the arm could use some patching. I think the grandma with a hole through her leg could use some patching. I think the gunshot wound you sustained before you managed to get a shot off could use some patching. 

A tiny first aid kit with a tourniquet and some gauze is small enough to keep into your pocket. Given the prevalence of car accidents, other types of assaults, and other disasters/accidents, you’re far more likely to encounter someone you could save with a first aid kit and some skills than someone you could save with a gun.

If you’re hot under the collar, I’m cutting off last time’s “Wah wah wah, but what about my first amm--” Let’s work on your reading skills. Conceal carry. Sure. Do it. I teach active shooter survival classes. Half the people I know conceal carry, I ain't against it. Great. Go get ‘em, tiger. 

General Electric, in tandem with Linderhoff Taktik, were given multiple billions by the German military in order to develop a new infantry type taking advantage of the capabilities of people with a beyond above average stature and strength. Coated head to toe in level four body armor and with a streamlined set of equipment to focus this new "Ultra Heavy Machine-Gunner" on their role, the UHMG kit features a backpack that can potentially hold 2,300 rounds of 30mm that is fed into a modified Gau-8/a, retooled for infantry use. Its drum, previously a magazine, has been converted to offset the weight of the weapon, and its mechanics are now housed in a sleek metal shell. The bullet vest features an attachable "crotch flap", as well as an IFAK and a tourniquet for wound treatment. -- Pictured here is Maxyp, a model hired to show off the uniform in a recent show to other potential investors who may have an interest in this equipment!

Commission for Mister.lol on FA! This was really fun trying to figure out how to work everything with furgonomics and y’know, how to make a plane’s weapon usable by infantry, but it was a super fun and welcome challenge!

Every shooter should be prepared to heal, every kit is complete only with those means. This video breaks down my Individual First Aid Kit (IFAK) for reference and inspiration to assist in tailoring your own.

Inventory list: 1x Condor Rip-Away EMT Pouch 2x Pair nitrile gloves 1x NAR trauma shears 2x Alcohol wipes 1x CAT tourniquet (2 others contained on person) 1x Sharpie 1x Celox hemostatic z-fold gauze 2x HyFin Vent chest seal 1x NAR Emergency Trauma Dressing 4" flat 1x NAR Compression Emergency Trauma Dressing 8x10" flat 2x Tegaderm film 2x Steri-strips 2x Rolls gauze 3x Flat gauze pads 1x Roll of tape 1x Tweezers 2x Packs of Neosporin 2x Assorted band-aids 4x Assorted safety pins 6x Tablets Ibuprofen 6x Tablets Acetaminophen 2x Tablets of Pepto-Bismol 1x Emergency blanket 1x Pack of Nuun tablets

Soundtrack - "Fog Mist" by Tracktribe

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It is probably way back in the blog. Tumblr decided to flag a few of my medical posts as adult content, as well. So who knows.

For tourniquets, I like to recommend the SOFT by TacMed Solutions. It is approved for use in the military. It works. And it is built well enough, and without plastic, that you can practice with the same tourniquet that you carry. The CAT by North American Rescue is good, too. But it has plastic and they recommend that you don't train with the tourniquet you carry.

I don't have any particular kit to recommend. But Medical Gear Outfitters has good gear. I like that he sells the first aid kits as well as refill kits for the bags. He also sells "boo-boo" kits for $10 for minor cuts, burns, or scraps. The guy who runs that site is a paramedic. He used to have a tumblr. Still has a YouTube channel called Skinny Medic. Check out that website.