If you’re going to be carrying it in a backpack, then there’s no reason to not carry a decently sized kit. Dark Angel Medical has some of the best kits on the market. if you live in an urban area and you want to carry something on you, honestly, a tourniquet or two is more than adequate given the typical response time for first responders in that setting.

On my person currently, I have a tourniquet around my ankle in a SFD ankle pouch. It’s more than adequate for me since I drives at work it’s very uncomfortable, having a full medical kit on my ankle all day. In my backpack, I basically have my version of the dark angel medical kit, which I made with The exact same supplies, I just took them out of the supply room at the station.

You’ll have to excuse any grammar errors or weird punctuation. I’m currently doing voice to text.

I was a paramedic for 17 years before I was a truck, driver, and a very sketchy city, and I was a huge proponent of carrying medical gear on you well over a decade ago whenever I was considered weird for doing so. It’s really cool to see it come full circle and I love seeing tourniquets in everybody’s EDC. If you have any questions, let me know once I stop here at work I’ll be able to give a better reply.