Your Med Kit is Outdated

If you put together a trauma medical kit or individual first aid kit (IFAK) five to seven years ago, you may need to update your gear. Whether you started with a simple first aid kit or a full 5.11 ALS/ELS medical bag, you should take the time now to review its contents. This article will look at what contents you should focus on and why you should replace each item.

Dressings

By now, your Band-Aid wrappers have fallen apart and, the Band-Aids have attached themselves to everything else in your IFAK. Any sense of sterility is gone and, these need to be replaced. Take a look at the Band-Aid brand Infection Defense impregnated with antibiotics (Neosporin) to reduce the risk of secondary wound infection. Band-Aid also has the Water Block covering that is “100% waterproof.”

Suppose you had 4x4 gauze in individually wrapped packages;