HonorPoint USA displayed several products in the Darley Defense booth. Above you can see a suite of pouches designed for use by Medics assigned to Army SOF and below is the AN/PVS-14 pouch. Next week, we’ll show you the Evolution Bag featuring Zip Off Technology.
“Rapid ascents without sufficient time to adapt to altitude can lead to acute mountain sickness, or AMS,” said Dr. Stephen Muza, acting division chief for the Thermal and Mountain Medicine Division, or TMMD, which is part of the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, or USARIEM. “This condition, marked by nausea, fatigue, headache and gastrointestinal distress, can really throw a wedge into a mission when not planned for.”
To combat the negative effects of AMS on the modern soldier, the Thermal and Mountain Medicine Division (TMMD) of the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM) has been developing a system called Altitude Readiness Management System or ARMS. ARMS combines population-based data with an individual’s altitude exposure, which provides information for sustaining health and improving performance. It predicts the prevalence and severity of altitude stress by incorporating altitude acclimatization, acute mountain sickness and physical work performance decrements. ARMS acts as a prediction for the level of AMS a person is likely to experience during a mission as well as offer ways to reduce and potentially avoid the affects of AMS completely.
“This model allows commanders to mitigate the impact of altitude exposure,” Beidleman said. “It not only predicts whether a Soldier would get ill at certain altitudes, it gives a prescription for exposure. This tool can prescribe, for example, that if (Soldiers spend) two days at 8,000 feet before they go to their final altitude of 14,000 feet, the likelihood and severity of AMS would be drastically reduced.”
The ultimate project goal is to produce a stand-alone software product coupled with the capability to produce a mobile version that could be integrated into a wristwatch, GPS, or smartphone. TMMD is currently collaborating with Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory to create a smartphone-based app using the ARMS system.
“If a commander has a small unit of 12 Soldiers with specialized skills, and potentially two can get sick, that really impacts their mission,” Beidleman said. “With this tool, he or she can think ahead to bring an extra person or allow for more time for Soldiers to acclimatize to the altitude. Essentially, it tells them the risk and also provides them with ways to mitigate that risk.”
www.army.mil/article/111471/Army_developing_tool_to_reduce_altitude_sickness_in_deployed_Soldiers/
The USTS Medkit 22 is a compact, durable, and sealed package of essential items intended for use with stopping life threatening bleeding until more medical help is available. It’s designed to kept on one’s person at all times, to be stored in a cargo pocket or vest, not left in a vehicle or pack.
The USTS Medkit 22 contains the following items:
-1x HemCon ChitoGauze
-1x SWAT-T™ Tourniquet
-2x 2×4” x 4” Gauze Sponge
-1x 5” x 9” ABD Pad
-1x 4” x 5 Yd Rolled Gauze
-2x 4” x 3” Cover Sponge
-1x 1” x 1.5 Yd Paper Tape
-1x(pair) Black Non-Latex Gloves
ustacticalsupply.com/ustacticalsupplypocketmedicalblow-outkit.aspx
(Click on cover to download your copy.)
SOTech debuted it’s 2013 Medical Catalogue for the recent MHRS conference and just in time for DOD’s EOY spending. Featured are new law enforcement variants of SOTech’s cutting edge Flat IFAK (patented and patents pending), medical go packs, and RAMMP hanging panel upgrade modules including solar panel options.
Also unique to SOTech’s latest medical, military and law enforcement catalogues are “development assistance” credits attached to products. SOTech wouldn’t be the industry innovator that it is without the input from operators in the field who have given their suggestions and feedback. As a thanks to those supporters over the past 15 years, SOTech included their names in the catalogue, though some are listed as initials for security reasons. SOTech credits their success to relationships with end users.
specopstech.com/osc/images/lit/medi2013
Ok, the Tactical Medical Backpack from T3 isn’t a “Snacktical” Pack, but its inherent storage features would certainly make a great picnic basket.
It includes four pull out color coded removable pouches as well as smaller pockets, pouches and elastic loops for storing a variety of instruments, bandages, and dressings. It is large enough for a lightweight, poleless litter/poncho and is equipped with packable padded shoulder straps.
Additional PALS pouches on the outside accommodate both 1000ml and 500ml IV bags; quick disconnect straps allow the bag to be easily strapped into a vehicle and disconnected.
www.t3gear.com/t3-medical-backpack
The cleverly named Cat Trap is a PALS compatible carrier for the issue CAT tourniquet. Quite simply, it uses shock cord and a cordloc to secure it and adjust the tension.
Additionally, there is an adapter that flips everything sideways for horizontal carry.
Available in Multicam, Coyote 498, Ranger Green, and Black.
***A-Tacs and Kryptek Coming Soon
stores.octactical.com/-strse-218/Cat-Trap-Tourniquet-Holder
Here are a few informational graphics from Phokus Research Group on their Hoplite focus aid and SONS Trauma Kit.
Grey Ghost Gear announces it has released the SLIM MEDICAL (SMP) pouch for general purchase. After months of T&E at home and in Afghanistan with SOF personnel the SMP is commercially available.
Asked why they chose to build particular piece of kit as the next in their line-up, Grey Ghost Gear Vice President responds “The reason we decided to put it in the marketplace
is simply because there’s very little else out there like it. It contains just enough stuff to treat yourself has some great features—a TQ cinch on the front, clamshell opening tab on top so you can tear it open easily under stress with bloody or sweaty hands, that sort of thing.”
The Slim Medical Pouch is currently available in MultiCam and Coyote, though additional ‘civilian’ colors as well as an all-black version are planned.
Lindsey Lea, Grey Ghost Gear’s Director of Business Development, explains further. “Our designers built this on info we’ve gotten back from guys in a number of different places, including one of the SFGs [Special Forces Groups] that’s over there now. It may evolve somewhat in the future if the threat changes or what they tell us demands it, but all necessary changes appear to have been made in the early stages and trials. Right now it’s built exactly the way they wanted it.”
The Slim Medical Pouch is constructed of 500 Denier Cordura® nylon. It takes up just two modular webbing channels on the mounting platform and secures with the two included Malice Clips®. As the name implies, it has a slim profile and is specifically designed to carry the most important immediate action trauma supplies. Dual zippers running the full length of the pouch and a large pull time allow quick access to the contents inside the pouch.
The inside contains more than ample room for vital trauma kit, as well as a flat pocket and elastic bands to secure various items. A bungee retainer system on the front of the pouch can cinch a tourniquet or other gear down, and two rows of modular webbing on either side will hold trauma shears or other items.
The pouch was designed to carry the following items but is capable of storing an array of other items as needed:
• 1 Pair of Nitril gloves
• HALO Chest seal x 2
• CAT Tourniquet x 2
• Trauma Shears
• Decompression Needle
• H&H compressed Gauze x2
• Quickclot Combat Gauze
• 6” Israeli Compression Bandage
• 28 FR NPA
Learn more at www.GreyGhostGear.com.
