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<blockquote data-quote="SMS" data-source="post: 1936904" data-attributes="member: 42"><p>Sufficient is relative to intended application and end user skill, Kaw. </p><p></p><p>It's a pretty complete kit, but keep in mind that a soldiers IFAK is intended to be used by trained individuals to stabilize a casualty until/during evac to higher medical.</p><p></p><p>Take the Nasopharyngeal tube for example, if the end user has never done one or doesn't even know what the purpose is, why pack it? Sutures? Same thing. CATs, along with Naso's usually come into play during severe trauma...is your expected environment going to have follow-on higher level resources that make the use of a CAT or Naso tube worth packing/storing/using? </p><p></p><p>In other words, if your bug-out partner catches a 7.62 to the face and is still clinging to life but having trouble breathing because his nasal cavity is destroyed...is it really worth plowing through the muck to try and put a tube in?</p><p></p><p>You could save some expense and space and tailor your own kit to one that focuses on the basics; stopping bleeding, preventing infection, providing comfort, and then grow your kit as your skills grow.</p><p></p><p>Bandaids, gauze, iodine, alcohol, more gauze, pain meds, compressed gauze, medical tape, and most importantly GAUZE. Can you tell I like gauze? LOL.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SMS, post: 1936904, member: 42"] Sufficient is relative to intended application and end user skill, Kaw. It's a pretty complete kit, but keep in mind that a soldiers IFAK is intended to be used by trained individuals to stabilize a casualty until/during evac to higher medical. Take the Nasopharyngeal tube for example, if the end user has never done one or doesn't even know what the purpose is, why pack it? Sutures? Same thing. CATs, along with Naso's usually come into play during severe trauma...is your expected environment going to have follow-on higher level resources that make the use of a CAT or Naso tube worth packing/storing/using? In other words, if your bug-out partner catches a 7.62 to the face and is still clinging to life but having trouble breathing because his nasal cavity is destroyed...is it really worth plowing through the muck to try and put a tube in? You could save some expense and space and tailor your own kit to one that focuses on the basics; stopping bleeding, preventing infection, providing comfort, and then grow your kit as your skills grow. Bandaids, gauze, iodine, alcohol, more gauze, pain meds, compressed gauze, medical tape, and most importantly GAUZE. Can you tell I like gauze? LOL. [/QUOTE]
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