I know we have some first responders and doctors and pharmacist's husbands in the house ... What do you guys carry?? What would you suggest??
Mine leans towards basic first aid right now, but I'm looking to add some more advanced items for a couple of reasons ... One, I am wanting to brush up on skills I used to have (like starting an IV) but haven't practiced in YEARS ... and two, you never know when you will come upon an accident where there might be someone there who knows how (but might not have with them) to use what you have ...
I'll go first ...
Israeli Bandages, 4x4 Gauze Pads, Triangle Bandages, Celox, tampons, iodine wipes, nitrile exam gloves, roll or two of 2"/3"/4" gauze, a NAR CAT Combat Application Tourniquet and/or SWAT Stretch wrap restricting band/tourniquet (in case of an amputation or massive limb injury), CPR kit, burn dressings, some type of disinfectant, note pad and pen, blood pressure kit, and some big labels and a couple of sharpies (to mark those you've helped listing what you did) so EMS knows whats been done, duct tape wrapped around a credit card and Ziplock bags (for a makeshift chest seal in case you don't have one) and/or NAR Hyfin chest seals (for sucking chest wounds), 14 gauge decompression needles, French Nasopharyngeal Airway, a wound irrigation kit (or bottle of saline and a 10mm syringe and an eye cup), and a bottle of the saline solution used for contacts (also to use to irrigate dirty wounds, eyes, etc.)
Uhmmm ... I think that's it ... I'm trying to go off memory ...
Any ideas/suggestions/discussion???
Mine leans towards basic first aid right now, but I'm looking to add some more advanced items for a couple of reasons ... One, I am wanting to brush up on skills I used to have (like starting an IV) but haven't practiced in YEARS ... and two, you never know when you will come upon an accident where there might be someone there who knows how (but might not have with them) to use what you have ...
I'll go first ...
Israeli Bandages, 4x4 Gauze Pads, Triangle Bandages, Celox, tampons, iodine wipes, nitrile exam gloves, roll or two of 2"/3"/4" gauze, a NAR CAT Combat Application Tourniquet and/or SWAT Stretch wrap restricting band/tourniquet (in case of an amputation or massive limb injury), CPR kit, burn dressings, some type of disinfectant, note pad and pen, blood pressure kit, and some big labels and a couple of sharpies (to mark those you've helped listing what you did) so EMS knows whats been done, duct tape wrapped around a credit card and Ziplock bags (for a makeshift chest seal in case you don't have one) and/or NAR Hyfin chest seals (for sucking chest wounds), 14 gauge decompression needles, French Nasopharyngeal Airway, a wound irrigation kit (or bottle of saline and a 10mm syringe and an eye cup), and a bottle of the saline solution used for contacts (also to use to irrigate dirty wounds, eyes, etc.)
Uhmmm ... I think that's it ... I'm trying to go off memory ...
Any ideas/suggestions/discussion???