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Facts• For every 10 Soldiers who die from battle injuries, nine never make it to a

field hospital. Statistics reveal these nine Soldiers either bleed or choke to death from lack of immediate care.

• About 50 percent of those who die on the battlefield bleed to death in minutes before they can be evacuated to an aid station.

• Army leaders have realized the need for immediate care and are demanding new training for all Soldiers as the first to provide immediate life-saving aid to buddies.

• The IFAK increases individual Soldier capabilities to provide Self-Aid/Buddy-Aid and provides interventions for two leading causes of death on the battlefield, severe hemorrhage and inadequate airway. These capabilities increase Soldier survivability during dispersed operations and the expandable pouch allows for METT-C specific add-ins”.

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IFAK System Description & Introduction

•Modular to MOLLE FLC, IBA, and ALICE •Increases Soldier survivability by improving capabilities to

provide Self-Aid / Buddy-Aid (SABA), especially during disbursed operations

•Provides the Soldier SABA interventions for the two leading causes of death on the battlefield: extremity hemorrhage and airway compromise

•Requires training in the principles of Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TC3) to attain maximum effectiveness

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IFAK Overview

Kerlix

2” Tape

Exam Gloves (4)

Trauma Dressing

MOLLE Pouch

Nasopharyngeal Airway (NPA)

Combat Application Tourniquet (CAT)

Stored

Insert

Coiled Retaining Lanyard

Inserted Photos are NOT to scale

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Components of the Individual First Aid Kit

(IFAK)

1. Nasopharyngeal airway (NPA)

2. Exam gloves (4)

3. 2-inch surgical tape

4. Trauma dressing

5. Kerlix

6. Combat application tourniquet (CAT)

7. Modular lightweight load-carrying equipment pouch with retaining lanyard

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Nasopharyngeal Airway (NPA)

• Maintain airway

• The nasopharyngeal airway, also known as trumpets, is inserted through one nostril to create an air passage between the nose and the upper part of the nasal passages

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Nasopharyngeal Airway (NPA)Continued

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Exam Gloves

• Reliable barrier protection against infection and contamination from bodily fluids (i.e. blood)

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2” Surgical Tape

• Also known as medical tape

• Pressure-sensitive adhesive tape used as a bandage to hold a dressing onto a wound.

• Surgical tape is white

because it contains zinc oxide, which is added to help prevent infections

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Trauma Dressing• Also known as ‘Israeli Trauma

Dressing’

• Bleeding/Hemorrhage Control

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Trauma DressingContinued

• Nine Steps to Apply the Israeli Bandage Properly

1. Remove the emergency trauma bandage package from the casualty's kit

2. Remove the bandage from the pouch3. Place the pad (dressing) on the wound 4. Wrap the elastic bandage around the wounded extremity5. Insert the elastic bandage completely into the pressure bar6. Pull the elastic bandage back over the top of the pressure bar,

forcing the bar down onto the pad 7. Wrap the elastic bandage tightly over the pressure bar 8. Continue to wrap the elastic bandage around the limb so that all

edges of the pad are covered 9. Secure the hooking end of the closing bar into the elastic bandage

to secure the bandage

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Kerlix• Hemorrhage Control

• Gauze roll

• Absorbent Material

• Sterile, safe, and helps control bacterial growth in moist and dry wounds

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Combat Application Tourniquet (CAT)

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Combat Application Tourniquet (CAT)

• One Handed Use

• Hemorrhage Control

• Use on arterial and venous blood

• For Moderate to Severe Bleeding only

• For use on Extremities only

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Modular Lightweight Load-Carrying Equipment Pouch

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