The first big knowledge achievement in First Aid is realizing there are distinct differences between trauma/blow-out kits, designed to stop massive hemorrhage (knife/gunshot/amputation/laceration/blind shrapnel or puncture wounds) -- and everything else that is not that massive bleed stop kit.
The second lesson is that "first aid kit" is distinctively focused on immediate servicing of minor, acute injuries or problems - like small bleeds, headaches & other basic analgesic (pain) treatment, minor burns, blisters, and other things that are in the clean/treat/cover - or "wrap/cover it and go" category.
The third lesson is that a "med kit" cannot hold everything, but it should be the bag that holds everything that is in addition to but not in the first two categories. An over-stuffed med kit is a useless but expensive bag of contaminated trash after the first week in a hot vehicle and first bloody hand dripping across and rubbing through everything it just contaminated.
A blow out kit is a personal, one time use, emergency bleeding control package.
A first aid kit should be no larger than what can fit in a quart zip-lock bag. It is a personal thing, but can also service other people's minor wounds. It is designed for carry, rugged use, and is cheap enough to be expendable once used/depleated, or contaminated, or just worn out from being crushed into a cargo pocket/pack/vehicle.
The Med Kit - or "House Kit/Base Kit" is intended for a "Clean Hand Person" (my term) to access items for an injured person, to whom the clean hand (care provider) will administer the item(s) retrieved from that kit in a more established care setting (off the field/after the mission/active event).
There are variations of this - there are "bigger" field first aid kits, and different types of med kits (field medic packs/basecamp kits) - but the concept is the same: (Clean Hand/Care Provider with "Extra Stuff" ).
I will break these definitions down in video.
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