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First Aid Kits

stingray4540

stingray4540

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Well, just curious, what first aid kit is everyone using? Or do you assemble your own kit? If so, what's in it and what does it weigh? And, more importantly do you know how to use everything that's in your kit?

So, let's see them, post your first aid kits!
 
I dont have a picture, but I made my own up. My friends girlfriend is a nurse, she always brings me stuff home. The latest cool thing she brought me was a bottle of Lidocain and a suture kit. I have a friend that was a surgen in the military, he just got home. He brought me some cool stuff as well. I will try and get you a list when I have the energy to tear it out of my pack.
 
Great topic for a thread. I usually make my own. They vary in complexity and depth depending on circumstances, destination, and known risks. In most cases though, first aid supplies can be improvised. Most cases.
 
Being that out here you have to be your own doc I tote a kit by Adventure medical called the comprehensive. I added on some scrip pain killers, injectable antihistamines, a snake bite kit, suture kit and a couple of epi pens.Thats in my guiding pack.
It's 3 lbs but when you are 6 or more hours from help, with goofy tourists, it's a must.
In the car I have the biggest kit the Red Cross sells with instructions in Ingles and Spanish.
 
I've gone through several renditions w/ mine, but think I may have it pretty close now

everything is kept in an Aloksak (6x9")-a small curved tip irrigator, 2 4x4.5 tegaderm bandages, pack of 10 1/4 x4 steri-strips, small roll of gauze, two triple antibiotic creams, 3 2g Celox (hemostatic agent), 2' of Leukotape (wrapped around a section of a straw), 2 vials of tincture of benzoin, "medicine"- tylenol, advil, benadryl, anti-dirrarah- the tylenol and advil changes w/ the length of trip

the kit weighs 2.4 oz

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in addition my repair kit contains dual use items that could be used in first aid-like duct tape, single use super glue, safety pins, needle, alcohol swab

it weighs 1.1 oz

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my SAK classic has tweezers, scissors which have obvious first aid uses
 
Liquid bandage and either waterproof or duct tape. A tube of benadryl, neosporin, advil, immodium.
 
I had started working on one for my Jumbo, akabu brought up something that I missed that should have been top priority, at the Gossman tour. I bought a first aid box kit at Wally World on clearance. It had lancets, meds (ibuprofen etc, those were the first to get chucked), and varying bandages and antiseptic ointments. It had an abdominal compression bandage, I grabbed some of the bandages, antiseptic and put some of my own meds in there (diabetic, afibb and bad reflux the Holy trinity of my ailments). I also have aspirin and store brand Immodium in there. If I hurt myself on the local, level, gravel trails :o, the little kit I put together should be okay. I've taken it along with me once, on a mile and a half walk, no survival situations walking through a development ;).

Oh yeah, I put everything in an Altoids tin :o. Looking at just packing everything into my Maxpedition Barnacle.
 
Being an emt i assembled a pretty extensive kit, keep in mind this is te kit that stays in the truck not in the b.o.b.

i use a blackhawk medic pack
2 18g iv caths
2 16g
2 20g
2 14g
4 bags of fluid 2 of which are lactaided ringers the other 2 just saline
4 quick clot bandages
cat gut and various needles for sutures
various sizes of syrenges
a feild surgery kit tools included
2 scalpul handles and 8 blades
4 sam splints
8 triangle bandages useful as swaths for arm injurys
2 pen lights
3 c collars
stethascope
bp cuff
glucometer
d 50 for blood sugar problems
20 abd pads for bleeding control
various other banages from band aids on up
2 rolls of 2 inch wide medical tape
various nasal and oral airways
mole skin
finger splints
pedi wheel
pedi tape
oral glucose
3 petrolum dressings for sucking chest wounds
cpr mask
1 box of nitrile gloves w/out the box
saftey glasses
and im sure im missing something but that all i can remember off the top of head
 
I like these kits that Campmor sells... Carey & Co. Trailside First Aid Kit.
For this price, you don't have any excuse not to be carrying a kit. I have a couple and will end up buying more so I have one in each daypack/lumbar pack/sling pack.

I keep a military copy "squad" sized kit in the car, too.

Stay sharp,
desmobob
 
hey guys

I only have 2 which are from beprepared.com that I purchased a year or 2 ago: the medic bag and this one for the vehicles.:)

we have a surplus of first-aid items at my job that are given away by the staff nurse, so that helps to build on the kits from time to time.
 
Make my own. Which one I carry depends on what I'm doing -- I'll carry a much larger one on SAR missions than on a day hike, for example.

Bandaids, some triangle bandages, an ace wrap, assorted medications (antihistamine, pain relief, mylanta), moleskin, and a few other odds and ends that I'm forgetting in my light dayhike kit. Anything else, like a splint, I'll improvise if needed.
 
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