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Mr. Bitey
Location: Milwaukee, WI Gender: Male Total Likes: 848 likes
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| | | Re: First Aid Kit and Injuries? < Reply # 7 on 7/20/2018 6:33 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | My first aid kit is shared with my bug out bag that travels in the Jeep at all times. It gets pulled out of the BOB and dropped in my Camelbak before each explore. Since it is a bug out kit, it is super overkill, but I cannot see that as being bad. It has all your standard band-aids, gauze, and tape. I also carry Tylenol, Imodium, Pepcid, and an anti-histamine. Finger splints, a triangle sling, and an Ace Bandage. Tampons for gun shot wounds, and of course the more traditional use should a travel companion be ill-equipped. Medical grade super glue, butterfly closures, and sutures. I actually used one of the sutures just last weekend when a drunken fool refused to go to the hospital. It wasn't pretty, but it did close the wound and stop the bleeding. I gave dumb ass 7 stitches after he was playing with an ax. Burn gel packs and chemical ice packs. Scissors and clamps. First aid book. CPR mask. Non-lubed condoms for water proofing a finger or even your entire hand, should you need to keep a wound dry. Gloves. Eye cup, tourniquet, blood clot pack. Personal radiation exposure card, and potassium iodide tablets should I/we survive a blast and be exposed to irradiated dust particles. Ammonia inhalants. Emergency Mylar blanket. Alcohol wipes, antiseptic wipes, bee sting ampules, ear plugs, antibiotic ointment, Q-tips, cotton balls, and 4 airline bottles of vodka to use as an antiseptic, ease pain, or shut you the hell up. Ambesol - works great for a toothache, and can help numb flesh before stitching. And finally, and old cell phone. By US law, even a phone without a service MUST still be able to dial 911.
My kit started from a 200pc kit from Amazon for $31. I replaced the crap plastic band aids with nice flex-fabric ones, and built it up from there. Everything still fits into that original 200pc bag. I set alarms in Outlook to remind me when items are about to expire and need to be replaced and to check the cell phone battery. If the phone stays off, it usually lasts pretty close to a year before I charge it again...
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| DarkAngel
Gender: Male Total Likes: 275 likes
His operating system is unstable.
| | | Re: First Aid Kit and Injuries? < Reply # 16 on 7/30/2018 10:35 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Personally I carry a US special forces IFAK / blowout kit with some extra goodies, plus more supplies in my truck. Mind you, I do live in rural Alaska most of the time, so if I get in shit, I’m the one that has to get out of it. I also have the training relevant to the use of all this. Key things that I haven’t seen noted. That said, these are only useful if you know what the hell you’re doing. If you don’t, odds are you’ll potentially make things worse by using this stuff. -Hemostatic agents (Mucoadhesive or Procoagulant types) for ‘oh shit’ bleeding. Quickclot ACS/Combat Gauze, Celox, etc all work great IF you understand how,when, and what to do after using them. -SAM splint. Reusable if you need to, small when packaged, but work great for stabilizing anything from a rolled ankle to a compound fracture. -Israeli bandage (CAT) as an ‘oh shit’ thing. One of the best tourniquets out there IMO. -Progaff and Coban tapes. One for non skin contact stuff like sealing around clothes to keep particulates out, the other for skin contact like keeping bandages secure without ripping all your hair off. Also great for keeping a SAM in place. There is a lot more in my kits, but not horribly relevant unless you have a much larger than average skill set, so I’m leaving that gear off the list.
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| JokerSpecter
Location: New Orleans, LA Gender: Male Total Likes: 61 likes
UER Criminal #50420
| | | Re: First Aid Kit and Injuries? < Reply # 17 on 10/14/2018 7:45 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Mr. Bitey My first aid kit is shared with my bug out bag that travels in the Jeep at all times. It gets pulled out of the BOB and dropped in my Camelbak before each explore. Since it is a bug out kit, it is super overkill, but I cannot see that as being bad. It has all your standard band-aids, gauze, and tape. I also carry Tylenol, Imodium, Pepcid, and an anti-histamine. Finger splints, a triangle sling, and an Ace Bandage. Tampons for gun shot wounds, and of course the more traditional use should a travel companion be ill-equipped. Medical grade super glue, butterfly closures, and sutures. I actually used one of the sutures just last weekend when a drunken fool refused to go to the hospital. It wasn't pretty, but it did close the wound and stop the bleeding. I gave dumb ass 7 stitches after he was playing with an ax. Burn gel packs and chemical ice packs. Scissors and clamps. First aid book. CPR mask. Non-lubed condoms for water proofing a finger or even your entire hand, should you need to keep a wound dry. Gloves. Eye cup, tourniquet, blood clot pack. Personal radiation exposure card, and potassium iodide tablets should I/we survive a blast and be exposed to irradiated dust particles. Ammonia inhalants. Emergency Mylar blanket. Alcohol wipes, antiseptic wipes, bee sting ampules, ear plugs, antibiotic ointment, Q-tips, cotton balls, and 4 airline bottles of vodka to use as an antiseptic, ease pain, or shut you the hell up. Ambesol - works great for a toothache, and can help numb flesh before stitching. And finally, and old cell phone. By US law, even a phone without a service MUST still be able to dial 911.
My kit started from a 200pc kit from Amazon for $31. I replaced the crap plastic band aids with nice flex-fabric ones, and built it up from there. Everything still fits into that original 200pc bag. I set alarms in Outlook to remind me when items are about to expire and need to be replaced and to check the cell phone battery. If the phone stays off, it usually lasts pretty close to a year before I charge it again...
| THIS. This is the kind of preparedness I like to strive for. I have a small kit I put together out of a "tactical bag" I bought on the internet. At first I loaded it up with stuff like some Raven neoprene gloves, some big gauze pads, medical tape, a fifth of vodka for cleaning (because who drinks that shit?), different little things I found around the house at the time. Over the following weeks I had added a suture kit, a reusable tourniquet, a minor surgery set that came with different tweezers and clamps for removing foreign objects and stuff. The idea was to have precautions for things like, minor cuts and maybe even catching a piece of glass in your hand or falling and breaking a finger. I eventually added minor luxury items like sunscreen, hand wipes, chap stick, or even pads in case the misses starts at a bad time. And it all fits in a fanny pack-like baby duffle bag. I like to be ready for anything that can happen in a derelict building with broken glass, wasps, and so on.
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