The IFAK what is it? A requirement for all prepared humans. Stop the Bleed

Today in honor of stop the Bleed month we take a look at the humble IFAK. If you don't have one you're wrong. #wrol #prepared #preparedness #prepper #preppergear #shtf #teotwawki #minutemen #prepping #firearmstraining #stopthebleed #ifak #firstresponders #trauma #medkit #tecc #tccc #tacmed #tems
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[@SkywalkerPMs]

Im happy you are covering this topic. It is so overlooked in the preparedness community. Im a retired Combat Medic, retired RTF Paramedic w/TECC, and a Stop the Bleed instructor in Florida. Those inserts, from modified saw pouch, are gold. Rescue Essentials is a fave for me.

[@unclefreedom213]

I have an order from RE coming in this week! Love those guys, dark angel, NAR, TACMED Solutions, SOARescue there is just a ton of great stuff but sadly also some snake oil

[@fredlevesque1864]

Excellent video!! I hate black gloves because you can’t see if they have been breached!! Sir, your videos are so informative. Please keep them coming!!!👍🏼🇺🇸

[@unclefreedom213]

Thanks more to come

[@wesleybogner293]

Thank you for covering this topic line. It doesn't get the attention it requires.

[@unclefreedom213]

Glad you found it. I encourage everyone to share it. One of the reason you don't see it as much is they don't get really good engagement which means they get dropped by the algorithm and creators don't make money on the video. I didn't get into this to make money but honestly it's nice when a video pays for itself. I do the medical I do because it's so important. Deep dive in depth on TQ drops tomorrow with a boatload of info

[@wesleybogner293]

@unclefreedom213 I found your channel about two months ago and have been watching your videos. Great content and the knowledge that you bring is amazing. I reference your channel in conversations.

[@thefrogking481]

Much more important than ammo storage.

[@unclefreedom213]

💯 it gets overlooked because people think I know how to do that. Medical isn't as sexy as me showing off pews and ammo but honestly there was more money in this video of med supplies than most people spend on a handgun. I always keep a medkit on me even in the ultra rare instance I don't have a gun( planes mostly) I still have a trauma kit

[@loriekaczmarek9788]

A good thing to write down in the top cover of your ifak is Start the breathing, stop the bleeding, protect the wound and treat for shock.just in case someone finds you incoherent and doest know first aid.

[@unclefreedom213]

I agree to have some stuff but bleeding is a priority you can bleed out in less than 30 seconds I can still keep you alive even a couple minutes without breathing

[@loriekaczmarek9788]

@@unclefreedom213 oh I agree. This is how they taught us in the Marine Corps in the 80's. But the instructor did tell us the order breathing and bleeding depends if the persons bleeding out. Where that takes top priority. I learned this when I was 17. In my 60s now still remember it. Came in handy a number of times over the years.

[@Seffry365]

Keep the great info coming!!!

[@unclefreedom213]

Will do!

[@Longrangedisco]

Excellent information brother. Thank you. 🇬🇧 Tim.

[@unclefreedom213]

You're welcome glad it helped you!

[@vitaminme4203]

I love how youve gone from guns to prepping to minutemen to now medical. Feel like im getting courses from a class on what apocalypse profession id like to have lol

[@unclefreedom213]

In all fairness I actually started with Medical lol. I have a over 2 decades in the emergency/trauma medicine and not losing gunfights spectrum. But was raised on a farm, native American family my whole life was basically a self reliance living which is great for passing that info on. The Freedom Academy lol

[@NotAWendigo]

If you're gonna carry a wireless hole puncher you need to have a boo boo kit to prevent yourself from going in forever box. Got it. (Comment for the algorithm cowards)

[@thomasbenefield3527]

Great stuff btw! I appreciate the medical with the hole punching!!! I have seen lots of LE guys save lives with a tourniquet!

[@unclefreedom213]

It'll always be the most used and useful part of our stuff no doubt

[@kazager11]

Just started video. The reason I want to see this is that I've heard you bring it up many times. When I shopped for it, the options were confusing to me, descriptions/differences hard to distinguish. Hoping you clear this up for me so I can be a prepared consumer!

[@unclefreedom213]

The next couple videos will really detail out stuff if you have questions email me [e-mail]

[@stevem525]

Thanks Uncle Freedom, would like to see more videos like this. I took first aid and cpr when I was a teenager in scouts, and this really opened my eyes as to how much it did not cover.

[@unclefreedom213]

Glad they helped you. Medical is a really multi level affair. The next 2 videos will be packed with info and then thier is an austere medicine one as well as a multiparty series on Prep Medicine

[@papapoonpoon]

Thank you for this video. I'm sure a lot of guys are like me. We've been meaning to take stop the bleed class. Time to get in gear.

[@unclefreedom213]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jacobhesington6725]

I’m looking forward to more of this. I’m piecing together a couple of ifaks right now

[@unclefreedom213]

Buy good stuff and always err on the side of more gauze. If you have questions reach out [e-mail]

[@MilitantMoses]

Ironically enough I was planning a build for a new IFAK when I got the notification for this video

[@unclefreedom213]

Hell yes, The next couple videos are really in depth on TQ and bleeding control stuff( gauze, hemostatics, and pressure bandages)

[@MilitantMoses]

@@unclefreedom213 been going back through your channel and I have been taking a butt ton of notes. Got me rethinking a lot of what I was doing in certain aspects. Keep up the good work brother

[@mac7977]

Got the Live the Creed EDC also(from your link tree) 👍🏽. Really love those bear claw NAR gloves. Primary Arms has some NAR ifak, individual resupply kits. With discounts for us former military. Keep the knowledge flowing & stay safe.

[@unclefreedom213]

NAR and Tacmed are running sales too! I agree love the Bearclaw

[@chris2455]

Great video, this is a video I needed thank you.

[@unclefreedom213]

So glad to hear it! I have almost as long a history in emergency and trauma medicine as I do not dying in gunfights

[@chriswalsh9989]

Great info and an entirely overlooked part of preparedness unfortunately. Good timing I might add, as iam in the middle of building my ifak for my new chest rig so i found your take on things as perfect timing my friend! Good info as always sir, you do our community a good service imho.

[@unclefreedom213]

Thanks the next couple videos on med are very indepth looks at TQ and bleed control measures

[@WinStoNs_Mith]

Thank you, sir

[@unclefreedom213]

Most welcome

[@Ovokor]

I like your description of "seal the box, TQ limbs and pack junctions" that is so much easier than how I first learned this stuff. My opinion is the IFAK I have are different based on where I store them. Truck is right behind my head rest, I keep a metal "punch" tool that is spring loaded and its for putting marks into metal, stupid good at breaking windshields. System I go off of with wound packing is as soon as you start never touch your face until hands are washed, quick clot tie a quick overhand knot and shove that knot into that hole as far as I can and start taking short lengths and shoving them in, next is standard gauze to finish off packing and then extra gets cut off then Israeli personal bandage is on top. Situation dependent if I go "wow that's a lot of blood i need to stop that now" I am not putting on gloves. Chest seals, dont fear if you dont have one, square piece of plastic like off the quick clot tape three sides. No need for a chest decompression needle if you have chest seals. That needle I own is for me only, my training on them was long enough ago within my state I am not taking the legal risk. On my motorcycle I also carry a sam splint because wow motorcycles and broken bones happen. Nose hose- Shia Labeouf took one like a champ coughed a little bit and got a bloody nose from it, I consider a nose hose only needed if the tongue keeps falling into the back of the airway. There are better ways like a recovery position for this sort of thing or airway swell could require one as well. Huge thing is periodically look in your AFAK to refresh your memory on where things are at.

[@unclefreedom213]

Chest seals do not eliminate TPT though the vents almost always get clogged with clots, you can burp them. That's truly about the only option for most people.

[@Ovokor]

@@unclefreedom213 True it does not solve the problem but like you said, this is slow down the process, the needle decreases the pressure (remember to put your face right over it as you stick in the decompression needle for needle catching) but it does solve the problem of air getting in crushing the contents of the box.

[@markgoggin2014]

Mine are 11mil orange gloves with waffle tread

[@neilfloyd1263]

👍

[@JeremyWilson-uo8wv]

Thanks man! Funny I've been thinking lately I really need an Ifak and TQ.

[@unclefreedom213]

Keep an eye out for the next few videos all bleed medical

[@loriekaczmarek9788]

My new ifak is a small Italian pouch. Has alice clips , is built like a tank, is the same size as the m 67 alice ifak, and is dirt cheap at a certain Sportsmans website. Going to fill it myself. Cheap and alice compatible is important to me.

[@unclefreedom213]

I have some IFAKs from other countries I got really into seeing how other places equipbthier troops

[@zander7494]

Thank you. The information you presented here is exactly the step by step I needed to help finish constructing my own IFAK.

[@unclefreedom213]

Glad it was helpful! Don't hesitate to reach out if you have questions [e-mail]

[@thomasbenefield3527]

Leave the box open!!!! I think we have discussed this before. Unless you are stating with the patient and are damn good at catching the tension pneumo. Leave it open. I don’t carry them. And I am a 27 year medic/ 20 year flight medic. We do not carry chest seals on the helicopter…. We do have gasoline gauze if needed. This is not only from me, but trauma surgeons. Thanks for the advice on the ARS needles! My Level 1 Trauma center found 60% of EMS placed needles were not in…….. Luckily I can do chest tubes!

[@unclefreedom213]

TacMed, TCCC and TECC sealing the box is what's recommended. You're talking about first response trauma care not ALS care. I agree about TPT but it was found that it saved more lives than it took during GWOT.

[@unclefreedom213]

Give em the ol finger thoro

[@XX-fq8kp]

I hope ur around when I need my BOX SEALED ! 😂😂 👍👍

[@unclefreedom213]

🤣😂🤣😂

[@chriswollan9319]

EMT long time ago, Don’t use it you lose it! Cert. for CPR next week and hope a stop the bleeding class if work will let me. This is good timing! Been doing a lot of practice making holes now fixing holes 👍 Be safe out there!

[@unclefreedom213]

You'll love the next few videos one of which will have how to build a simple trainer for you to practice on

[@Trailhound79]

Great talk, and sooo glad ya hit on p.a.w.s!! So many people worry about all the little idiosyncrasies. It all hurts!!

[@unclefreedom213]

Yeah it doesn't get brought up much and when it does it gets too much emphasis. Like you have antibiotics great, what happens when you're treating someone and then you cause an allergic reaction. I do have plans to do a 3 or 4 part series on prep medicine, homeopathic treatments and using other kinds of meds

[@silverbrass6711]

Love the video 👍👍👍and someone splurged on monster I believe that or this side of responsible gun ownership you are really in to. As I said love the vast knowledge. Keep it coming 👍

[@unclefreedom213]

Glad you're enjoying it

[@rdonovanc5659]

Thanks for doing these. Really appreciated.

[@unclefreedom213]

Glad thier helpful the next two videos all about TQs and then other bleeding control will be very informative and indepth then there will be a couple of shorts on critical skills people can reference or I can email out for people to have in thier libraries

[@user-to8tw1wj4e]

Will you be covering “improvised treatments and tools” at some point? There are for example certain hygiene items that by design appear to be ideal for plugging holes. I only ask because sometimes you don’t have anything else handy. Your thoughts?

[@unclefreedom213]

I had planned to do an austere medicine as far as tampons hard no. We tried it in a live tissue lab and it failed now pads on the other hand can make an excellent pressure bandages pad

[@brendanvarela6497]

What was that green insert you were talking about in the beginning? Are they surplus IFAKS?

[@unclefreedom213]

That is the USGI IFAK insert I pick them up on ebay for 5 or 6 bucks I have a bunch of them I build em put and keep them in chest rigs, backpacks you name it

[@markgoggin2014]

Martin doesn’t actually think your blood. What it does do is make the platelets slippery so they don’t form clots easily

[@unclefreedom213]

I'm assuming you were typing Asprin? That's true however thinning blood is the common vernacular for what takes place. Best I don't 10 dollar word and explanation something I can sum up with thinner since again that's the common phrasing for it.

[@minedustry]

Will someone finally get around to making a video for our wives on how to use a ifak.

[@unclefreedom213]

Like a stop the Bleed? Or a hide the body

[@xforce708]

I have one, but MY BLOOD makes me feel like passing out. 😂🤣😂🤣😂 So. There’s that. Your bloods ok though 😳lol

[@WinStoNs_Mith]

I’m just the opposite

[@unclefreedom213]

I had a buddy who had zeronissue in the live bleed labs (goats are people too) but the second it was real human blood he fainted lol