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I love Condor’s products, although I have read some negativity. Their EMT line is great; I have both sizes. The EMT lite is good for what you want to do I think. You can get a good amount of supplies in there but speaking as a medical professional don’t try to do too much. It’s a first aid kit, not an operating room (I’ve had to remind myself of the same thing occasionally). They are also the perfect size for a blow-out/stop the bleed kit, which is what I use mine for. I also can recommend their First Response pouch.
I don’t have that pouch . I have several Condor products and I have nothing but good to say about them. I carry a Condor E&E bag I have tried other bags but come back to this bag . My FAK is in a Condor sidekick molle straped to my E&E bag with a couple bigger items in the main bag I have their bottle carrier and deployment bag all are good.
After looking at the specs on that pouch I may have to have one thanksHi,
I’m looking to get a new FAK pouch for inside my pack. I seem to have settled for the Condor EMT Lite so far, mainly for its smaller size, and also because it comes in red so I can find it quickly in the bag!
Before I order one, are there any decent alternatives in size or colour variation that I may have missed?
Cheers.
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From the picture above it looks like you settled on the Hyfin Vent Chest Seal Twin Pack, which has a folded format of 7.5 x 4.5 inches and runs 2.5 oz (according to the NAR web-site).In case you want or need to replace (expired) items, maybe you want to consider its smaller sibling, the HyFin Vent Compact Chest Seal Twin Pack, which seems to be smaller: 3.9 x 6.6 inches and 1.55 oz also lighter and cheaper too.
I have both and carry the compact version in my daypack trauma kit.
Another item in the small but useful category is the H&H Mini Compression Bandage, just saying 😎
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I edc a small trauma kit with the H&H Mini which I think is perfect for that use. There are other compression bandages which have thicker pads and closure bar which helps add pressure, but they are also bulkier.I don’t usually edc carry a chest seal, but do have one in other first aid kits. I might have to look into the HyFin Vent Compact.
Evo LTE. I use to be the guy who got a new phone every 4-6 months. That changed with this Evo. I absolutely love it and haven’t gotten bored with it in the almost year I’ve owned it.
Thanks for the input, gents. We’re currently on hold, with the rest of the planned year out the window thanks to the current unpleasantness, but I’ll keep those posts in mind 🙂
This is the Condor First Responders pouch. Picked it up for around 20 US Dollars on Amazon. Fits everything I need for a IFAK. Can easily be put on a belt or any molle platform. I actually have 2 of these and these one goes everywhere with me.
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As a result, we really don’t know whether some or all of the parts will require rethinks or substitutions, until such time as we have to use them.
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From the picture above it looks like you settled on the Hyfin Vent Chest Seal Twin Pack, which has a folded format of 7.5 x 4.5 inches and runs 2.5 oz (according to the NAR web-site).In case you want or need to replace (expired) items, maybe you want to consider its smaller sibling, the HyFin Vent Compact Chest Seal Twin Pack, which seems to be smaller: 3.9 x 6.6 inches and 1.55 oz also lighter and cheaper too.
I have both and carry the compact version in my daypack trauma kit.
Another item in the small but useful category is the H&H Mini Compression Bandage, just saying 😎
@RogerStenning … as time passed by did you have a chance to test your small trauma kit? On one side I hope not (avoiding injured people) – on the other side if you had to, how well did it work for the purpose? Anything you would change?
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As yet, we’ve not had to test the kit ‘live’, thankfully. Also, given COVID-19, the events we would have been attending this year have been cancelled or postponed, so we won’t really know how they work out until next year, I would imagine. As a result, we really don’t know whether some or all of the parts will require rethinks or substitutions, until such time as we have to use them.This said, I suspect there will eventually be substitutions / swap-outs as time goes on, with new items emerging on the market to replace various parts of the kits over time. We’ll see, anyhow.
I’ll update the thread as and when things change or get used ‘live’, as it were.
@RogerStenning … as time passed by did you have a chance to test your small trauma kit? On one side I hope not (avoiding injured people) – on the other side if you had to, how well did it work for the purpose? Anything you would change?
Its not really that big of a deal. Your narrative sounds like a spec op mission full of deployment parameters and mission specific acronyms. If you want to carry fist aid gear, you may have two basic options.
1. carry a kit bag, sling pack or similar
2. put it in your pocket.I say that because there really isn’t much of a practical middle ground. If it were me, I would carry a compression bandage and gloves in my pocket and a tourniquet in a spare utility pouch on the belt.
I am not sure if you are trained or if you are acting under the auspices of a formal organization. If you plan to apply handcuffs or other type restrains to a person, I hope you have proper training. It is quite easy to cause nerve and tissue damage. Depending on how a person is retrained, there can also be a risk of a condition knows as restraint hypoxia (resulting in death). Improperly applied restraints are the genesis of many lawsuits which commonly plague local police forces.
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First para: Really? Interesting. How so on the narrative, because I can’t see it myself?Options: Were discussed in earlier postings (there are seven pages of this thread, trust me, it’s all there 🙂 )
Regarding middle ground. We think we’ve achieved what we set out to do, so yeah, there appears indeed, to be middle ground, at least in this case.
Yes, we’re formally organised, trained, and insured. We’re all former Royal Military Police (regulars and reserves). We’ve taken a load of courses over the years, along with refreshers, and the civilian equivalents, including both conventional and Total Control handcuffs (so-called rigid body ‘speedcuffs’). However, I’m not going to be drawn into precisely which other non-medical courses and quals we have, as it’s not germane to this thread.
The minimum first Aid course that we maintain is the UK “Level Three First Aid At Work” qualification, which is a Health and Safety Executive certificated course (on successful completion). We are not intending to be paramedics, as it’s not our purpose; the prime reason for the small immediate trauma kit, to reiterate from earlier postings, is to ensure we’ve a better than even chance of providing life-saving aid until the professional medical types arrive on-scene within their target time (averages out at about ten minutes in most urban and suburban places in the UK, and longer in the ‘sticks’, of course).
Hope this clears up any confusion you might have had.
Its not really that big of a deal. Your narrative sounds like a spec op mission full of deployment parameters and mission specific acronyms. If you want to carry fist aid gear, you may have two basic options.
1. carry a kit bag, sling pack or similar
2. put it in your pocket.I say that because there really isn’t much of a practical middle ground. If it were me, I would carry a compression bandage and gloves in my pocket and a tourniquet in a spare utility pouch on the belt.
I am not sure if you are trained or if you are acting under the auspices of a formal organization. If you plan to apply handcuffs or other type restrains to a person, I hope you have proper training. It is quite easy to cause nerve and tissue damage. Depending on how a person is retrained, there can also be a risk of a condition knows as restraint hypoxia (resulting in death). Improperly applied restraints are the genesis of many lawsuits which commonly plague local police forces.
