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Location: Richmond, Virginia
Gender: Male
Partially Retired
 |  |  | Re: What's in your first aid kit?
<Reply # 20 on 7/7/2005 4:53 PM >
|  | | | I was raised old school. I carry alcohol, a rag and electric tape. Sure, it burns like it's gonna fall off, but the pain keeps you awake.
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Deadpan
 
Location: Interior of British Columbia
Gender: Male
I squat down and make an art at least once a day
| | Re: What's in your first aid kit?
<Reply # 21 on 9/12/2005 9:02 PM >
|  | | | Get anti septic liquidskin, its basicly wound cleaning/sealing superglue wont hold your rib cage closed but it can seal those nasty little tin cuts.
Our forests die, the strangle hold that we put on the earth for gold will yet increase ten thousand fold and no one knows what for. |
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Krenta
Location: Saint Paul, MN
Nope, wasn't me.
| | Re: What's in your first aid kit?
<Reply # 22 on 9/13/2005 7:56 PM >
| | | | I have two first-aid kits, a big 'un and a little 'un, and I also carry some very basic first-responder stuff in all my camera bags... realistically, the big bag is only brought out for road-trips and the like, and is more likely to be needed for an auto accident or something of that sort than an exploration mishap.
Gloves. Lots and lots of gloves. In the first-aid kits, and in every camera bag. Better to have and not want than want and not have.
Band-aids, various sizes, in every bag. Cloth and waterproof ones.
Gauze, 2x2 and 4x4, likewise. 4x4's are your friend.
1" cloth tape (3M Durapore (TM)), greatest stuff ever. I keep a roll in my camera bag, and a roll in each first-aid kit.
Large trauma dressings. For when things get really ugly.
Povidone/Iodine wipes. Every bag.
1" and 2" cohesive elastic bandage. Instant pressure dressing; sticks to itself, not your arm/leg/chest/back hair.  In both first-aid kits.
2" and 3" roller gauze, a couple rolls in each kit.
Sterile cravats/triangular bandages. One in the small kit, two in the large.
SAM splint, greatest. splint. ever. Lives in the big kit.
2" elastic (Ace) bandages. Splints don't stay on by themselves, silly.
Mesh splint; works a little better for some things. Lives next to the SAM.
I started carrying the Ace bandages and splints after I broke my ankle in a tunnel deep underground someplace. The only time so far I've ever wanted them, but they'd have been REALLY nice to have. Limp, lurch. Limp, lurch.
Tweezers, 'cause slivers suck. Both kits.
Scalpels, 'cause deep slivers suck a lot. Sterile, disposable #12's, in camera bag and both first-aid kits. Many other uses, too.
CPR mask, one in each kit; usually have one in my camera bag, too. I wouldn't kiss a stranger...
Full set of Berman airways, sterile. They're cheap, they work, and (knock on wood) I'll never, ever need 'em. They live in the big bag.
Nasopharyngeal airways, in a couple of sizes. 'cause I'm a sadist, and I like to kick people when they're down... or at least stick tubes up their noses. ;) More user-friendly than the Berman airways, but a lot more expensive... and versatile.
"Suedecon" tear-gas and pepper-spray decontamination towels. Better to have and not want than want and not have.
That's pretty much it. If I were cheap, or wanted to travel light with only stuff in my pockets, I'd go for some cloth bandages, especially knuckle bandages, a bunch of 4x4 gauze, a roll of cloth tape, and a 1" roll of cohesive elastic bandage, which I truly think is the most useful first-aid supply ever made. The only thing I'd consider adding are a couple small bottles of sterile water, for flushing foreign objects from eyes. In practice, someone almost always has a bottle of Aquafina on them... which is cheaper and tastes better.
The greatest benefit of carrying a first-aid kit, or at least first-aid supplies, lies not in the beneficial uses of such, but in their unparallelled power as injury repellant. Personal experience suggests a 75% reduction in injuries after carrying even just a few bandages... go figure.
Have Speed Graphic, Will Travel. |
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earthworm
 
Location: General Area
Gender: Male
| | Re: What's in your first aid kit?
<Reply # 23 on 9/13/2005 10:38 PM >
| | | | Take a brown paper bag. It's the poor mans quickstop and has saved me from stitches a number of times.
Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. |
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L. Fancy
Location: Rhode Island, United States
Gender: Male
Winner Of The Great Race 2006
| | |  | Re: What's in your first aid kit?
<Reply # 25 on 9/15/2005 8:15 PM >
| | | | Now I don't know anything about medicine but the Marines in Diwaniyah, Iraq used duct tape. That's right, they would just duct tape right over an open wound and let it heal. Now I don't recommend this at all, nor do I understand why it works but they seemed to like it.
The world is not nearly as scary as the TV makes it out to be. |
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aplz
Location: Neo-Berlin (Kitchener)
Gender: Male
When The Detail Lost Its Freedom
| | Re: What's in your first aid kit?
<Reply # 26 on 9/18/2005 9:25 PM >
| | | | I pack light. I simply bring a bit of rubbing alcohol, bandages, and tissues.
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