What do you recommend for the average grunt?
 

What do you recommend for the average grunt to pack in his web gear? (2nd line.)

The soldier with little medical experience, but who wants to carry a little more then 2 traumedics.

Right now I'm carrying 2 traumedics, a roll of kerlix, some med tape, and about 6 4x4 dressings.....then I have some small bandaids, butterflies and some betadine.

I'm going to add a tourniquet and see about getting some of the israeli bandages.

What do you recommend NDD?

Bump.....:munchin

Ah bottle full of Mortrin 800's

Does that help with the back pain after sleeping in the Sgt's chair all night? :cool:

In fact I need to shed this duty belt the cuffs keep digging into my back....after sitting all night. :cool:

I do like the Isreali battle dressing. Carried two on me at all times in Iraq. Very nice piece of med kit. I also like the tournequet from Tactical Medical Solutions.

Footmobile, have you checked out the Cinch-Tight dressing and PriMed gauze? I believe they are in the new IFAKs you guys were issued. The Cinch-Tight is similar to the Israeli dressing, but more compact and it uses a hook instead of the big, awkward plastic yoke. The PriMeds are just bulky gauze, but they're vacuum packed into a very small package, so you could carry 2-3 in the same space as a package of Kerlix.

I've seen 'em, but haven't as yet had a chance to train with them yet. The Corpsman I talked to about them seemed pretty happy with the improvements over the old stuff.

Razor's always got the 411 on the good sit... :)

Where's all the SF medics?????? Anyone else?

What makes for a good, personal 1st aid kit for combat?

For what it is worth, I used to carry one of those "Jungle First Aid Kits" that the Marines all seemed to have, but I loaded it significantly differently than the issue setup.

Included a wide-range antibiotic (10 day supply), a fungicidal creme, betadine, bandaids, Ibu-profin, Iodine, pre-packaged sterile suture sets, small guaze squares, an eye dressing, a battle dressing and a cravat.

Ive been watching this post hoping more would reply.

Maybe add a good pair of shears, and a small 500cc bottle of normal saline (and syringe) to irrigate if you have the space and dont mind a little extra weight.

Personaly I like kerlix. You can stuff it into a wound and do other things with it too-

ccrn

Thanks for the replies.

I was kinda thinking more on the lines of wound care (dressings, gauze, kerlix, whatnot) then meds. I usually always carry a personal pill kit with me-motrin, immodium, whatnot.

I'm certainly no medic, but i always carry 2x Tampons in my webbing in addition to that standard issue kit. they're light and apparently work well when needing to "plug-up" bleeding puncture wounds. Can anyone here confirm or dispute this?

Hoepoe

I believe the consensus is that they're better than nothing, but there are other things out there made specifically to do a better job.

Ill state the obivous how about some gloves.. I also like the EMT shears work well and dont add much weight. What do you carry your med. supplies in BadMuther.
I was thinking of adding quikclot anybody ever use it pros/cons of it.