There are many dangers and potential hazards on the battlefields and without a good first aid kit you will die, so you should carry the right stuff among your combat gear. But what to carry and where? Let’s find out!To get more news about ifak kits , you can visit rusuntacmed.com official website.

The IFAK (Individual First Aid Kit) is practically mandatory for all army reservists and practical shooters. You can select the contents based on your first aid know-how and wallet, as long as you take certain basic principles into account. Various armies also distribute these to their soldiers. In Finland, the first aid pouch is identical to the magazine pouch. If this is the case, you should mark the first aid pouch with e.g. red tape to avoid mistakes. One of the authors, Mika M?enp?? has put some red paracord on his. The main idea is not to treat other people with your IFAK, the wounded should be treated with their IFAK. That is why it is vital that everybody in the unit carries the same first aid gear and that they are all marked the same way.
What to carry in the IFAK?
Everybody should carry their IFAK in an IFAK pouch. These are usually easily detachable rip-off pouches or inserts for general-purpose/magazine pouches that you can quickly throw to your teammate when needed. The kit should include stuff for stopping bleeding, ensuring breathing, keeping the patient warm, and treating a tension pneumothorax. For this, you usually carry an emergency bandage, a hemostatic gauze or granules, nasopharyngeal airway, chest decompression needle, vent chest seal, survival blanket, as well as heavy painkillers, such as morphine, in autoinjectors on peacekeeping operations. Many also include rubber gloves, a burn dressing, and a second tourniquet in their IFAK. The Israeli Emergency Bandage is something of a standard in the industry, and this is what the Finnish Defence Forces also use.
Hemostatic gauzes, such as the Combat Gauze, have nowadays pretty much replaced the hemostatic granules. Their undisputed benefit is that unlike granules, they cannot easily go where they shouldn’t go and they don’t easily bugger off in the wind.

Don’t be an idiot, carry a vented chest seal with you. Making an improvised chest seal from scratch is difficult: why wouldn't you make things easier for the medic who comes to help you? It is possible to craft an emergency solution using duct tape and plastic wrap but you easily cause a tension pneumothorax with such a contraption. The improvised version doesn’t have a vent. And since the tape solution is so tight, accumulated pressure cannot be released.

It is worth remembering that a slightly lower body temperature is already serious hypothermia for a patient that has suffered a traumatic injury. Because of this, hypothermia is a serious risk in Finland even in summer but especially during the three other seasons. You should thus always try to keep the patient warm and therefore the Finnish combat first aid kit always has a space blanket. Instead of the shiny silvery blanket, the Finnish army distributes a version that is green on the other side, which is of course a more tactical choice. How about autoinjectors? They will teach you to use those when they give them out.

You should also carry along scissors or another safe cutting device because finding the shrapnel holes might require a very thorough inspection. A strap cutter is another good option and it also has many other uses, too. A knife can of course also be used to cut open the clothing but you can easily create more unnecessary holes in the patient with those when you are somewhat stressed.
We explain the basic principles of gear placement in this article. The IFAK is usually placed on the second line, i.e. attached to the combat vest or plate carrier. This is when you wear both the vest and the battle belt. There are also situations when you don’t have a vest, only the belt. Then you should carry the IFAK on the belt or in your pocket. Then there is of course the option where you have two sets, one on the belt and one on the vest.

If the IFAK is placed on the vest, you should also carry at least a bleeder pouch on the belt. It is a separate, lighter first aid kit designed solely for stopping bleeding. It usually has a tourniquet, an emergency bandage, and a hemostatic gauze/granules. There is a saying in the USA that when you have a device designed for making holes in people, you should also always bring along something for fixing such holes. Many professionals that carry a pistol in civilian clothes also carry bleeder pouches in cargo pockets. When you have a bleeder pouch, you also always have a tourniquet, either in the pouch or separately.

Bandaids and mild painkillers don’t have a place among life-saving first aid gear in the IFAK or Bleeder pouch. This is because you don’t want to rummage through piles of crap during an emergency. You should carry these separately on the third line in a small BooBoo pouch. This is the place for bandaids, blister plaster, headache pills, and other prescription-free medicine.

The other author Hemmo P?iver?inen uses a wide padded battle belt with a compact rip-off IFAK that is placed on the back in a way that it is accessible with both hands. Furthermore, he has a rip-off IFAK pouch on the left backside of the vest that carries a full set. Because it is designed for other people that treat him, he doesn’t need to be able to access it. So, it can be placed wherever it isn’t in the way as long as other people easily identify it and the contents are identical with the rest of the unit.