The EDC IFAK: Why you need one.

[Talyn]

An IFAK is an individual first aid kit. That term has expanded into the world of everyday carry and typically refers to a small, easily concealed, and easily carried medical kit for everyday emergencies.

https://inside.safariland.com/blog/the-edc-ifak-why-you-need-one/?

 

[Marek71]

The key is to learn how to use all this stuff, good thing to get trained when most of us just think about putting shots on target. But I guess if our shots get on target first no need for an IFAK

 

[Jester560]

Something i need to invest in....badly.

 

[PacNWvike]

Wife is a nurse, so we carry one in the vehicles and our travel trailer. Of course in hiking packs.

I don’t carry one on my person as an EDC though nor do I plan too. I try to keep my stuff light and mobile. I am not a trained medic but I am trained in CPR and had first aid training but it’s been awhile. So I keep a CPR mask.

I could see these items being helpful in certain situations on your person like a shooting. But generally most places have kits in the store so for handling slips trips and falls. So I don’t really feel a need to constantly pack one. If I was an EMT or nurse maybe. But again there is only so much I want to always have on me.

 

[Sld1959]

My wife was an emergency room and geriatric nurse, she puts our first aid supplies together.

 

[SimonRL]

I have several comprehensive IFAKs that I keep in my cars and range bag. Had an EDC IFAK for a while but even a small one with a tourniquet, gauze/clotting gauze, compression bandage gets unwieldy and is pretty much impossible to conceal.

 

[The Night Rider]

This is what I carry

Trauma Pack Pro.

I added another package of hemostatic gauze and an Army field dressing.

It fits in my cargo pockets.

It cost 50 bucks and it suits my needs.

I've had quite a bit of first aid training from the Army, from my employers when I was a security guard. I even went to school for two years to be a Medical Assistant and I've never had to perform First Aid on anybody except for when I was actually working in the ER at Evans Hospital.

Based on that experience I just don't see the need to go out and spend two or $300 on chest seals and Israeli bandages and all that other stuff that I'm very likely to Never Ever Ever Need.

 

[Cedric]

Because of my meds I tend to bleed and bruise from the slightest impact, so my son-in-law, who is a graduate Health major, put a first aid kit together for me. Not concealable, but I take it with me wherever I go.

 

[Bassbob]

First aid kits, which include trauma kits, blodclot/blood stop kit, tourniquets and other useful crap are in my packs, cars and work truck.

 

[Talyn]

I have first aid kits/IFAKs on my gun belt, home, vehicle & hunting gear all time since they've come in handy when I've needed them.

 

[belladonna]

I have an IFAK in my range bag and a standard first aid kit in my vehicle.