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First Aid Kit announce fifth album Palomino
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First Aid Kit announce fifth album Palomino
After releasing a cover of Don Henley's "The Boys of Summer" last month and sharing "Angel" in June, First Aid Kit have announced their follow-up to 2018's Ruins, which is titled Palomino.To get more news about combat gause, you can visit rusuntacmed.com official website.
As well as sharing the title and release date for their fifth album, the duo announced that a new single titled "Out of My Head" is landing this Friday (12 August), and a preview of the upcoming song soundtracks their Instagram post.Although Ruins was their last album, First Aid Kit did release a Leonard Cohen live tribute album last year titled Who by Fire.
According to BleedingControl.org, a federally sponsored medical education campaign, uncontrolled bleeding is the number-one cause of preventable death from trauma. In situations where a traumatic injury has occurred, the ability to slow blood loss often makes the difference between life and death. This outcome may be decided in three to five minutes before professional medical personnel can arrive on scene, and that’s why it’s essential for individuals on-site to control bleeding as soon as possible.Whether you’re dealing with a badly broken limb while hiking on a remote trail, a gunshot wound at the range, the aftermath of a violent car crash, or a mass-casualty terrorist attack, you certainly won’t want to do so empty-handed. An individual first aid kit, or IFAK, can give you the tools you need to stop blood loss and save lives — including your own. IFAKs are available in a variety of sizes and configurations, but given the everyday-carry–oriented theme of Pocket Preps, we’ll be focusing on ultra-compact kits.
We collected and evaluated six premade kits for this guide. At a minimum, each of these kits contains a tourniquet, which will serve as the most important tool for stopping life-threatening blood loss as a result of wounds to extremities. The kits also include ancillary items for treating serious wounds, such as hemostatic gauze to aid in clot formation and elastic compression dressings (often referred to as Israeli bandages) to maintain pressure.
Although no one wants to encounter a situation where these items are necessary, you’ll be glad you have them if that catastrophic day ever comes. Read on to see if one of these IFAKs has a place in your EDC loadout.
This kit is available with either a nylon belt-mount pouch or MOLLE-compatible pouch in your choice of several colors, and with either basic or advanced medical supplies. We opted for the basic belt-mount kit. This configuration includes a Tourni-Quik TK4, a minimalist elastic tourniquet that has been deployed with the U.S. Marine Corps and Special Forces. (For those who wish to also carry a standard C-A-T or SOFTT, Blue Force Gear offers a matching Tourniquet NOW! carrier.) The kit also has a hemostatic gauze dressing, a compression dressing, six strips of medical tape, and a pair of large gloves. These contents are housed in a quick-deploy insert, which can be removed from the belt carrier by pulling a tab on either side. The exterior panel features a laser-cut cross symbol with three interchangeable inserts — glow-in-the-dark reflector, red, and black.
TacMed Solutions was founded in 2003 by a Special Forces medic who created the original SOF Tactical Tourniquet (SOFTT). That tourniquet is one of two windlass models approved for use in combat by the Department of Defense and the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (the other is the C-A-T). TacMed Solutions’ Pocket Medical Kit includes the Wide variant of this tourniquet, the SOFTT-W, with a high-visibility rescue orange strap. It also contains an Esmark elastic compression bandage, a Beacon chest seal, gloves, and compressed gauze. For $99, the kit is available with Combat Gauze instead of the non-hemostatic variety. The entire kit is tightly sealed in a plastic pouch and slips easily into the pocket on a pair of pants, a shirt, or a jacket.