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Folks,

I have a request for any and all of you that have a med kit. (ESPECIALLY if you carry one in the car.)

Please forgive me the deep/dark request.

If you don't have at least two with your most readily available med kit, add tourniquets to your kit.

My brother in law was in a horrible motorcycle wreck about 3 years back. He lost a leg just above the knee. The ONLY reason he's alive is that the first person to stop on scene had a tourniquet in their kit.

I know they can be made from "field expedient" supplies. But if you ever need one, you're likely to need it FAST.

A thought from a maudlin fellow prepper.


Thanks and safe travels!
Wolf
 
Does anyone in the triangle offer a stop the bleed class? The closest thing I can find is in Hickory.
 
Ruffinit said:
Folks,

I have a request for any and all of you that have a med kit. (ESPECIALLY if you carry one in the car.)

Please forgive me the deep/dark request.

If you don't have at least two with your most readily available med kit, add tourniquets to your kit.

My brother in law was in a horrible motorcycle wreck about 3 years back. He lost a leg just above the knee. The ONLY reason he's alive is that the first person to stop on scene had a tourniquet in their kit.

I know they can be made from "field expedient" supplies. But if you ever need one, you're likely to need it FAST.

A thought from a maudlin fellow prepper.


Thanks and safe travels!
Wolf
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My recommendation is to buy an Adventure Medical Kit first aid kit and supplement it with an IFAK (tourniquet, hemostatic dressing, etc). You'll use the basic first aid stuff far more than you'll use the trauma specific stuff, but when you need the trauma specific stuff, you really need it, and you really need it now.

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Ferrisfan said:
Does anyone in the triangle offer a stop the bleed class? The closest thing I can find is in Hickory.
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I do, and I last taught one last August. If my upcoming scan is okay on February 8th, I'm happy to schedule another one here in the triangle. But if I can't, I have a couple other colleagues at Duke who also teach it.
 
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A med kit is important to have obviously but you can save money buying things piece by piece. The most important part however is knowing what each item is used for and when to use it.

I find I have a kit in each car similar to what @Chuckman showed above and attached to that I have a small IFAK in a rip away type bag that I know my tourniquet, chest seals, nasal airway, pressure dressing and 14 gauge decompression needle are in. They get checked monthly and that’s about it and I am ok with that. The rest of the kit gets used about monthly. Be it the tums, bandaids, alcohol wipes or Tylenol it’s frequently used
 
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Radar said:
A med kit is important to have obviously but you can save money buying things piece by piece. The most important part however is knowing what each item is used for and when to use it.

I find I have a kit in each car similar to what @Chuckman showed above and attached to that I have a small IFAK in a rip away type bag that I know my tourniquet, chest seals, nasal airway, pressure dressing and 14 gauge decompression needle are in. They get checked monthly and that’s about it and I am ok with that. The rest of the kit gets used about monthly. Be it the tums, bandaids, alcohol wipes or Tylenol it’s frequently used
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This absolutely true. The big mark up is the pretty multicam (or whatever) nylon bag in which the stuff goes. You buy piecemeal and put it in whatever bag you want.
 
Here is a brief video of it

 
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