“It saves lives”: what should be a high-quality tactical first aid kit for the military

What should be a quality tactical first aid kit for the military/Collage 24 channel

If you collect first aid kits for the Ukrainian military, be sure to fill it with quality components. Otherwise, it will not save a person at the most critical moment.

A volunteer and co-founder of the “How are you?” charity foundation told Channel 24 about this. Ekaterina Kozachinskaya. According to her, many of the first-aid kits that are now being handed over to the Ukrainian military are very, very bad. This needs to change.

People hastily fill first-aid kits with low-quality tourniquets or bandages. And some are still trying to sell it.

They are cheap, but do not save at all. Poor-quality first-aid kits are passive murder,” emphasized Kateryna Kozachinskaya.

If a poor-quality tourniquet breaks, a military man may die from blood loss. They often only have a few seconds to tighten it and save a life.

What should be a quality first aid kit for the military

The most important principle is not to save money. Items must be certified. In addition, first-aid kits need to be checked: sometimes scissors can cut badly or tourniquets can break, etc. It is important that you have a doctor with you who is familiar with this case.

In the first aid kit there should be the following things:

• two tourniquets of the original CAT (mandatory certified);
• Israeli pressure bandage (if a regular bandage, then more compressed bandages are needed)
• hemostatic ( not powder, but in a bandage );
• nasopharyngeal tube with lubricant;
• occlusal stickers (check if they contain a valve. You can put one sticker with it, one without it);
• compressed bandage;
• sterile pads;

< li>regular bandage (high-quality bandage, not old Soviet gauze);

• several pairs of gloves (not black, because blood is not visible on it. Preferably different colors);< /li>
• thermal blanket;
• atraumatic scissors ( checkon clothes that have been folded several times);
• marker.

Don't forget that the result should be camouflage. And the things themselves are well folded, so that the military quickly gets the right thing. Sometimes even first-aid kits from foreign donors have to be repackaged.

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How are you? created after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Representatives are mainly engaged in three areas: special equipment (thermal imagers, night vision devices, drones, walkie-talkies, etc.), cars and tactical medicine.

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