Thread: First aid kit pics

Originally Posted by Dorkus

That's the plan. Comfortably numb while I wait for the chopper ride home

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You mean magic carpet ride !

After 32 years SAR training....2 items....condoms (non-lubricated if possible) Uses: protecting wounds on hands, feet, toes & digits, great ties / tourniquets, and last ( definitely not used ones ) put one inside a sock to get water from a stream.....they reallllllyyy stretch!
Item 2: Tampons, small, light, low volume BUT brilliant for stopping/staunching blood from open wounds...

Originally Posted by BruceY

After 32 years SAR training....2 items....condoms (non-lubricated if possible) Uses: protecting wounds on hands, feet, toes & digits, great ties / tourniquets, and last ( definitely not used ones ) put one inside a sock to get water from a stream.....they reallllllyyy stretch!
Item 2: Tampons, small, light, low volume BUT brilliant for stopping/staunching blood from open wounds...

See someone else has discovered the uses of condoms! Tampons are a good point, have had them in kits in the past

Originally Posted by BruceY

After 32 years SAR training....2 items....condoms (non-lubricated if possible) Uses: protecting wounds on hands, feet, toes & digits, great ties / tourniquets, and last ( definitely not used ones ) put one inside a sock to get water from a stream.....they reallllllyyy stretch!
Item 2: Tampons, small, light, low volume BUT brilliant for stopping/staunching blood from open wounds...

Item 2 is a pretty classic misconception, some good advice on this page:
Hemorrhage Control – What Aunt Flow Didn’t Know | Private Bloggins

a couple of things not mentioned(or i didnt see them) i have added ......little bottle of the spray hand sanitizer, awesome when you get nailed by ongaonga takes away the sting temporary relief anyway just keep applying it as needed . quickeze, found out very handy when you run out of food cos the guy your overdue with brought nothing and you had to share your rations, takes away the hunger pains inner tube which most use to start a fire can also be used as a tournequet....eye drops for when you get nailed by bush lawyer.... eyes are very important in the bush.

CAT tourniquet, Israeli Bandage, Chest seal, celox and some wound packer. Yet to get a PLB but will do. Takes up very little room and can deal with most trauma until serious help arrives.

@Savage1 what's the celox like to use? Yet to need mine...

Never used it in a real life situation so don't know. Used the Israeli Bandages with it infused and it worked really well, would never stop a serious arterial bleed though.

Cat is a serious piece of kit, hope you won't need that.

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Where is the best place to get hold of some celox? Would be good to have a few sachets in my kit.

Originally Posted by Bryan

Where is the best place to get hold of some celox? Would be good to have a few sachets in my kit.

Trademe has them, you can get it in an syringe type applicator which would be far better for getting it down into a wound I think, epecially if self applicating.

If you're going to carry a CAT then make sure you practice with it and get familiar with it including one handed application, if you never practice then when you need it you'll be dead by the time you get it on. I didn't realise how much I was lacking until I was put through some high pressure scenario.

Brought my celox from a guy off trade me operating out of Dunedin / taeri can't remember his name, hogs and dogs or something

A gauze impregnated with a hemostatic agent, such as QuikClot Combat Guage, is much easier to apply then a powder or granule.

Be cautious about buying both CATs and hemostatic agents online as there are several companies making counterfeit products.

Originally Posted by Koshogi

A gauze impregnated with a hemostatic agent, such as QuikClot Combat Guage, is much easier to apply then a powder or granule.

Be cautious about buying both CATs and hemostatic agents online as there are several companies making counterfeit products.

Can you suggest a reliable source for such gauze? Have an Israeli bandage that's been vacuum packed and bloody expensive but only the one

Originally Posted by 223nut

Can you suggest a reliable source for such gauze? Have an Israeli bandage that's been vacuum packed and bloody expensive but only the one

http://tacmedaustralia.com.au/

Check out their blog too. They have some first class contributers, including Dan Pronk, a former AUS SOF Doctor with multiple combat deployments.
https://sofrep.com/author/dantacmed/