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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To have a set in stone standardized battlefield first aid kit
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- Name: EBFAK - Enhanced Battlefield First Aid Kit (or if you're in the middle of something your medic will scream at you "GRAB THE BLOODY KIT!")
- Manufacturer: The Dire Wolves Mercenary Company
- Affiliation: The Dire Wolves Mercenary Company, Closed-Market
- Modularity: Completely, you can add or take away any amount or kind of medical supplies and add them to this kit, as this is just a baseline for combat life savers on the battlefield, shooter's preferences for what they think they need more is up to them.
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Molle style pouch is made of Armorweave for durability. Medical components are inside of it laid out however specific soldier has their kit.
- Classification: Battlefield First Aid Kit
- Method of Consumption: Multiple uses depending on how bad person has been injured, and has a variety of application methods based on what you're using and what needs fixed.
- Average Life: Totally dependent on what bandages/stims you are using inside the pack, but will last the average combat soldier long enough after any injury to get them to a aid station or triage tent. Large version has even more and can keep an entire platoon supplied for weeks on various injuries.
- Nutritional Value/Allergies/Side Effects/ Purpose: Don't eat this. This is for people to bandage wounds properly that don't have access to the magical powers of "The Force". Be aware that there are lots of different kinds of drugs in here, so users are warned that they need to pay attention to what they are trying to give themselves so they don't accidentally kill themselves.
- Baseline for light/small version equipment: 3 rolls of gauze, 20 bacta-treated elastic/packing bandages, 1 eye shield, 1 chest decompression needle, 4 chest seals, 4 Ketamine and Epinephrine Auto-injectors (Each they're not in the same packs crazy), 6 rolls of combat gauze (bacta treated gauze for stopping bleeds in hard to reach places), 5 tourniquets (Don't ask), latex gloves, 4 tubes with G-5 geltabs (insert into wound to assist with bleeds), 1 roll of medical tape, 1 permanent marker (STOP SNIFFING IT), 1 Casualty Card, 1 nasal trumpet and 5 compression bandages. Is on a medium sized pouch that can be molle'd onto equipment where ever shooter feels necessary.
- Baseline for heavy/Large version of equipment: Multiply small version by 6ish (depends on medic), add in bacta injectors, trauma sheers, surgical kit, airway kit, however many liters of saline or Universal Plasma Fluid said medic wants, blood transfusion kit for battlefield transfusions, atropine and pralidoxime Auto-injectors (to treat chemical agents), Diazepam Auto-injectors, collapsible medical splints, cauterization kit, small electric combat saw, and a small defib kit. Is in a large backpack that is meant to replace soldier's assault pack and is purely devoted to carrying medical gear.
- Additional Equipment available to add into packs: Synthflesh gel packs, Heat Closure Packs, Dermaseal spray vials, Detoxification Hypos, Hydration Tablets, Imobilin Auto-injectors, Millaflower Extract (Again don't ask), Nervesticks, Porrh Packs (That's really gonna hurt btw), Wound glue packs, Wander Kelp Extract packs, Kouhunin Venom Auto-injectors (DON'T TOUCH IT UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING), and Quickwake Tabs (think smelling salts)
- Armorweave construction of pouches and packs allow for extreme durability and the ability for these kits to be carried almost anywhere.
- General Purpose - These medical kits are designed to accommodate the most common injuries on the battlefield, and to keep soldiers going despite being injured, even sometimes grievously so long as the individual soldier has the personal grit to conduct either self or buddy aid. The medic's version being larger allows them to deliver more specialized care and save lives on the battlefield, keeping soldiers in the fight and keeping them alive long enough to actually receive life saving care.
- Weight - These packs are relatively light allowing everyone in your squad to carry them, making them an almost essential piece to even the standard rifleman's kit. These packs, including the material the very pouch is made out of, was made with the mantra "Ounces equal Pounds, and Pounds equal Pain,". You can definitely spare the weight for one of these, and your team or company medic should definitely have enough room to bring the pack version so they can actually do what they are best at, save lives.
- This doesn't replace actual care - These kits are lacking in one thing mainly, they aren't near as specialized as necessary for an actual hospital or Trauma care suite. This is meant as the initial intervention to be done at the tactical level to increase battlefield injury survival rate, and give soldiers a chance to push through injuries sustained in combat to survive. This doesn't replace an actual combat surgeon nor that kind of resources so don't rely solely on this for all injuries, especially when you have access to more comprehensive resources.
- Your men need to be trained on this - Notice that in both packs there are drugs meant to treat battlefield conditions, one more so than the other. If you aren't properly trained there is a statistically high chance that you can not only hurt yourself, but also kill yourself. If you don't know what something does, don't use it until you are absolutely sure as to what it does and how to properly use it.
This product was built when Sergei went out to find medical kits for his men to utilize in the field, and it didn't matter where he went, he was always found wanting more from the products available. The civilian medical kits were either cheaply made, didn't have near as much stuff as Sergei needed, nor had the necessary items that Sergei was looking for in his combat first aid kits. And so like a lot of other things, Sergei decided to make his own. He fell back on his own training and knowledge of previous gear that he'd used on his home planet, pulling medical equipment where he could, other bandages and auto-injectors with the various chemicals needed to treat battle field conditions, and anything else he could beg, borrow, or buy. And such became the first of his combat life saver packs, or Enhanced Battlefield First Aid Kit. He made the first version a smaller pouch that could be carried by any rifleman into combat as part of their standard kit, and then made a larger pack version intended for medics, with more gear, drugs, and essentially everything that someone might need on the battlefield. And while it wasn't like you'd be giving your men state of the art medical facilities to care for them, when it came to care under fire, there was nothing that beat this product. It would allow soldiers to keep themselves alive despite injuries that would normally cause death from a variety causes on the field, and allowed for medics to apply even more advanced care to either fix soldiers temporarily, or keep them alive long enough to get them out to real medical help. Don't give up on yourself, and don't give up on your men, slap a tourniquet on and push through soldier!
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