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Building an IFAK

An IFAK is an Individual First Aid Kit. It is not a boo-boo kit. Its purpose is to treat life-threatening trauma on one person — you — long enough to reach real care.

Core contents

  • One CAT or SOF-T tourniquet, carried where you can reach it one-handed
  • Two packages of hemostatic or plain compressed gauze for wound packing
  • One pressure bandage
  • One vented chest seal, ideally two
  • One nasopharyngeal airway with lubricant
  • Trauma shears
  • Nitrile gloves
  • A permanent marker for writing the tourniquet time

Carry rules

Carry the IFAK on your body, not in your pack. A kit in a bag you dropped when you were injured is a kit you do not have.

Everything in the kit should be something you have actually practiced with. A tourniquet you have never applied under stress is a tourniquet you will apply too loosely.