First Aid Kits

It’s not the inserting it, it’s understanding the risk. Especially if a needle T will suffice and especially in the field, where infection has more risk if isolated and needing to sit on a patient. Maybe for you it’s fine, but it’s not a “everyone should be able to do this” task.

This is why licenses exist, to hold people accountable for making these calls.

 

I have your basic first aid stuff, plus some additions:
Scalpel
Suture kit
Stapler
Super glue
Iodine tablets
Ibuprofen
Hydrocodone-5 mg
Epi-pen

 

Never said it was something anyone can do.

 

Damn, great tip btw.

 

One thing I added to my kit that I didn’t see mentioned here is a temporary tooth repair kit. Imagine being in the woods on day 3 of a 5 day trip, or somewhere else that you can’t get to the dentist right away and you have a broken tooth. You can’t really eat right until it’s fixed.
One of my coworkers chipped a tooth badly during the pandemic and he couldn’t get to a dentist for 3 days. He was miserable.

 

Changed my mind on getting a first aid kit. Don't want to make an injured person's injuries worse and sure as hell don't wanna get sued for trying to help someone. If I come upon an accident I'll call 911 but I sure as hell ain't gonna touch them.

 

This is exactly why the Good Samaritan laws were passed. To act or not is an individual decision. But if you don’t and you have a conscience it will likely haunt you the rest of your days. Hell sometimes in life no matter what you do it’s going to haunt you.

I’d rather try and fail (and I have) than not try and never know if I could have made a difference.

 

What he said above


I was a ski patroller for years. Training first!!! We always had bad locations for treating injured. Blanket is also KEY to keep people warm. During training we had to sit on cold snow playing the injured for upwards of 20 minutes. After you do that you immediately go out and buy a wool blanket! wool blanket can be used as splint too since they are stiff rolled up. SAM splits are way cool. Get one of those too. Unconscious means treat as neck injury. Treat for shock. Our prime directive was always “Stabilize and transport” can’t do much outside of an ER if it is really bad. And I put on multiple traction splints for femur fractures. We could call a Heli that usually got to the landing zone before we got someone down the hill. Communication is also key with the injured and family and EMS people.

My 2 cents too.


Cascade Rescue has good wool blankets. https://cascade-rescue.com/

https://cascade-rescue.com/search.php?search_query=Blanket&section=product

 

We were always trained up working in the bush. Crews had at least one Level 1 and everyone else Basic with transport. Recert every three years.. I matched my own truck to the work trucks kit wise;

Truck has one of these;
https://shopsafetyproducts.ca/colle...ederal-level-b-kit-2020-compliant-soft-bag-ea

Rv and Car have these;
https://shopsafetyproducts.ca/colle...ederal-level-a-kit-2020-compliant-soft-bag-ea

 

Wife got me this for Christmas last year. It is the advanced kit and has way more than I hope to ever have to use. I also have the smaller personal kit within easy reach.

https://mymedic.com/collections/first-aid-kits/products/myfak-firstaidkit?variant=19844419092576

 

I have a couple nice kits check my post
For sale/ other

 

I assembled our own. Get First Aid AED/CPR certified and you will get a good idea of what to have to start. Go through a "stop the bleed" course and you will expand on what is needed in your kit. Take a back country or emergency preparedness class and you will expand further what you include. Then when you're on the trail you will get hurt and find out the shit you really needed wasn't covered by any of it because you never had a class that covered lopping off a finger on a winch.