This system is currently being issued as standard items in the following US Army Medic kits:
- The Combat Medics Bag (Military Code 2246)
- The Field Hospital Surgical Instrument and Medical Equipment Supply Set (Code 3246)
- The Ground Ambulance Medical Kits (Code 2256)
Procurement will be made utilizing Pyng Medical Corporation's assigned military stocking number N.S.N. 6515-01-453-0960.
F.A.S.T.1 can be used to provide drugs for medical emergency, or volume fluid resuscitation for treatment of haemorrhagic shock. Typical flow rates for normal saline are 30ml/min under gravity feed and 125ml/min with a pressurized bag or syringe-stopcock manual pump.
***TIP: In the field, if you don't have an IV pump available(likely) or don't have a spare indig. soldier or Teammate to manually compress the IV solution bag, then you can use a BP cuff which can be inflated around the IV bag to compresses and directly infuse solution at a faster rate.
A 250ml bag of Hypertonic Saline Dextan (HSD), equivalent to nearly 2 litres of normal saline, can be infused using a syringe- stopcock pump in only 2.5 minutes.
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