- Joined
- Apr 16, 2012
- Messages
- 3,544
Drumsticks, I can't stop.
This. :thumbup:
The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
Drumsticks, I can't stop.
Did not read the 7 pages
But did anyone say spare glasses?
Where are you guys getting your lock pick sets? I mean I've seen them for sale in magazines but I always think they are probably junk.
If you're still interested check out serepick. I got a set of the titanium Bogota Titan Entry sets. Not sure what others have.
Handy tinder. That particular document is on the way out.
Sugar is a good one too, you can use it to clot wounds and stop them from getting infected. The best way to do it is surround the wound with something like Vaseline, pour the sugar in the middle, then cover with a bandage. There's plenty of other uses for sugar too but that is one a lot of people don't know.
As with any traumatic wound, the wound is first irrigated and debrided. Hemostasis is obtained prior to the application of the sugar (PI) dressing since sugar can promote bleeding in a fresh wound. A wait of 24 to 48 hours before the application of sugar is not unusual. During this delay, a simple PI dressing is applied to the wound. Once bleeding is under control, deep wounds are treated by pouring granulated sugar into the wound, making sure to fill all cavities. The wound is then covered with a gauze sponge soaked in povidone-iodine solution.
Superficial wounds are dressed with PI-soaked gauze sponges coated with approximately 0.65 cm thickness of sugar. In a few hours, the granulated sugar is dissolved into a "syrup" by body fluid drawn into the wound site. Since the effect of granulated sugar upon bacteria is based upon osmotic shock and withdrawal of water that is necessary for bacterial growth and reproduction, this diluted syrup has little antibacterial capacity and may aid rather than inhibit bacterial growth.
So to continually inhibit bacterial growth, the wound is cleaned with water and repacked at least one to four times daily (or as soon as the granular sugar becomes diluted) with more solute (sugar) to "reconcentrate" the aqueous solution in the environment of the bacteria.
Clinical trials
So how are the clinical trials? There are lots of poor quality studies. Almost 400 references if you are in the mood for cherry picking. The preponderance of the poor quality studies points to benefit.
[G]anulated sugar . . . looks encouraging and has been used to treat mediastinitis , diabetic foot ulcers and sloughing wounds.
*****************Treatment of recurrent staphylococcal mediastinitis [inflammation of the tissues in the mid-chest]: still a controversial issue
This study compared the effectiveness and safety of wound dressing with granulated sugar versus early muscle flap surgery in the management of recurrent postoperative Staphylococcal mediastinitis.
CONCLUSIONS: Both treatments proved effective in recurrent type IV A Staphylococcal mediastinitis. Granulated sugar proved a safer option in severely compromised patients.
CONCLUSION
This case study reports on the successful use of a white granulated sugar dressing on a patient with two infected pressure ulcers. The heel wound was no longer malodorous within 12 hours of treatment, pain was reduced within two days and the patient was mobile using a Zimmer frame within one week. The sugar dressing facilitated autolytic debridement of the heel wound and promoted granulation tissue formation with a reduction in wound size. A moist wound bed was maintained and bacterial colonisation prevented.
This study demonstrates that sugar, which is a relatively cheap dressing (average cost per dressing change - £1.49/ 1,60 euros / 2.40 USD), can be effective on infected, malodorous wounds of different aetiology, including pressure ulcers.
However, a larger randomised controlled trial comparing white granulated sugar to standard treatment when managing exudating wounds, with parallel economic evaluation, and more laboratory work on the use of sugar dressings, has been planned to prove efficacy and cost effectiveness and to substantiate these earlier conclusions.
A metal clipboard, and a dog bell. The dog bell rings very nicely, and comes in handy for a bear scare, and as an alarm. A clothing marker is good to have too.
Anyone mention a gill net? Light. So effective it's against the law, like leg-hold and conibear traps in many areas. And you won't catch the neighbor's dog. The last could save your life. Some dog owners get upset over Fido dying in someone's trap - real upset - shooting upset.
My position is that getting upset can spoil your aim.
If you remember, practice is good before you really need to use a tool.
Dogs have suffered extensively before death in a Conibear. I can post the pictures if you insist, but this is a family-friendly forum.
Dogs are survival tools. That is why aboriginal peoples, who knew much more that we do about roughing it, used dogs to hunt and for security. (Yes, occasional thump on the head.)
I plan on bugging out at home.
Conibear traps are unlawful in many jurisdictions. (Google is your friend.). You should check first - unless you are saving them for TEOTWAWKI. which has been predicted for at least the last 1013 years.
In the meanwhile, in the real world, the neighbor may hear the yelp and look you up.