First Aid kit contents

[Bill.Stickers]

All good suggestions - maybe ad some training especially if intending to use a tourniquet and or celox dressings as it's possible to do some real damage to a person. Our club does emergency first aid and a module on serious trauma like gun shot wounds and deep cuts

 

[jcalleja91]

Yes i wouldn't start using TQs, Celox, Chest Seals etc without training.

I have all sorts in my day sack that goes pretty much everywhere with me from Pressure Bandages, Celox, Chest Seals, TQs to Nasopharyngeals and Oropharyngeals.

My over the top approach comes from my mum falling off her bike around the corner and impaling her thigh on the brake lever. Fortunately I was able to stop the bleed with nothing but elevation and direct pressure but when she got to the hospital we found she had nicked the artery and a few mm further across and I'd probably have struggled to stop it with no kit, despite having all the training.

 

[tozzybum]

A first aid ,forestry course will include tourniquet and celox use ,pointless carrying the gear without.
As said you can do more harm than good if you don't know what your doing.
Israeli bandage and tourniquet are a must as are decent waterproof plasters .
Watch and practice with whatever gear you buy ,you tube is your friend.

 

[LukeSwindon]

Celox Rapid another excellent addition to any trauma kit

And a chest seal

 

[suburban bushwacker]

Spare reading glasses and or contact lenses.

 

[wilf007]

Non adherent tape is what you need for minor cuts just wrap around

 

[weblyish]

For the minor stuff

some finger cots if you are prone to cutting your thumb (like a teeny condom to go over your plaster otherwise it lasts less than 2 mins)

fine tip tweezers for blackthorn & ticks etc

Vaseline - lips blisters etc

Moleskin - blisters


For the major stuff
Pen paper for notes

Israeli bandage or whatever you feel most confident with

 

[Mike L]

For the minor stuff

some finger cots if you are prone to cutting your thumb (like a teeny condom to go over your plaster otherwise it lasts less than 2 mins)

fine tip tweezers for blackthorn & ticks etc

Vaseline - lips blisters etc

Moleskin - blisters


For the major stuff
Pen paper for notes

Israeli bandage or whatever you feel most confident with

Mmmmm Vaseline and condoms??!!………. Are you sure you are out after deer?!

 

[wanderer]

and some bog roll..

 

[hybridfiat]

25 yrs experience as a remote medic.
K.I.S.S.
Fixomul 100mm x 1 roll (this will do everything from burns to cuts to lacerations to sprains and strains). Will double as gaffer tape too. Learn how to use this wonder bandage)
Combines 10 x 20 x 4 (soaks up the blood)
Steristrips (a luxury)
Tweezers (buy good ones, fine point from Switzerland)
Compression bandage 100mm x 1 (the brown one)
Triangular bandage x 2 (use 1 to learn how to use it and put the other in your pack)
NaCl for irrigation 20ml x 5 (for cleaning that dirty wound or flushing eyes)
20 x paracetamol (acetaminophen for Yanks)
10x Aspirin. (think heart attacks as well as aches and pains)
That's it!
All eventualities covered except child birth.
You are on your own there.