Posted: 2/18/2008 5:07:05 PM EDT
| I am looking to create a first aid kit to take to the range and/or any classes that I take in the future. I would like something that will cover any accidents/injuries that might occur while shooting that would help until help arrives. Can you guys help me create a kit that could be kept on a vest or in a pouch that would fit my needs? |
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Check out Cabela's if you are interested in a ready made outfit rather than assembling your own. These kits have supplies specifically for gunshot wounds. www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/links/link.jsp?id=0025093517322a&type=product&cmCat=SEARCH&returnPage=search-results1.jsp&No=18&noImage=0&Ntt=first+aid&Ntk=Products&QueryText=first+aid&Ntx=matchall&N=4887&Nty=1 I don't have any experience with these kits but I have been thinking about buying one. |
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4x4 or 5x9 Trauma pad (large dressing) 2" tape tourniquet petrolatum gauze triangle bandage gloves (incase your fixn somebody else) Edit to add: Quik-Clot I keep a larger jump kit in my truck (I work for an ambulance company and am a FF) Trauma Pouch 6- 4x4 3- 5x9 2- petroleum gauze bandages 2- rolls of kerlex 2- triangle bandages 2- trauma shears 1- trauma dressing 1- pair of sterile gloves 2- small sharps containers 2- co-flex/coban (different brand names) Main Pouch 1- 1", 2", 3" tape 20- ammonia inhalants 20- alcohol prep pads 12- Betadine swabs 2- bulb syringes 1- Insta-Glucose 1- thermometer with covers 1- penlight 1- bite stick 1- Burn sheet 1- hot pack 1- cold pack 2- ipecac syrup (makes you puke) 1- activated charcoal 3- CPR masks Center 1- SAM splint 6- Bio hazard bags 1- box of X-Large Nitrile gloves (100) 1- Glucometer ?- alot of lancets, test strips and your average band-aid End Pouches Blood Pressure cuffs (adult, fat adult  , and peds.)Stethoscope I know this is larger than you want but it might help you out to choose stuff. This is the same kit the ALS trucks have minus Intubation stuff and an IV start kit. Pick your gear with your "mission". If your going shooting with some young kids, you probly wont need to be checking their blood sugar. However if your shooting with an obese diabetic person.... it might be something you want. Hope it helps |
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If you are looking for something in case of gunshot wounds then your gear should focus on massive bleeding that way you don't have extra crap that too often creeps its way into kits. 1. Tourniquet - best piece of equipment you can have hands down 2. Hemostatic agent - Celox is my choice (long explanation but I have tried all the others too) 3. Israeli bandages 4. compressed gauze - many uses but mostly needed in conjunction with hemostatic agent 5. tampon - it can be inserted into wound 6. Chest seal (there are various types) If you are in an area where EMS has extended ETA's then consider expanding your kit to include basic equipment for airway and circulation. A really good site for equipment is www.narescue.com. They are expensive but their products are well thought. |
NO NO NO! Quick clot is out, too many problems. Even the Army says only after a tourniquit fails now. Just dont use the $hit, period! Tourniquets......I have spent countless hours unteaching this BS. Unless it's a total amputation, don't use a tourniquit, EVER! First off it's most likely not indicated, second, you have doomed the limb to amputation if it's done right, third, they are never done right. ever! 20 some odd years as a paramedic and I have neer seen a tourniquet applied in the correct manor, the saving grace to that is we can take it off and save the limb. People see a little blood and panic and go for the heavy duty stuff. BS! Work with the basics and you can stop the flow every time. Direct pressure, compression and elevation. If that fails, pressure points. "hands down" my frikkin ass. Worst piece of FA equipment out there. I forever curse the boy scouts for teaching this to everyone. Never use a tourniquit unless the limb is gone then the bleeding will have slowed anyway. First rule of medicine is do no harm, tourniquits HARM.... Here is a list: one roller gauze hand full of 4X4s tape SAM splint couple of bandaids most important is TRAINING, learn what to do and you won't feel the need for a bunch of usless BS like tampons, maxi pads and tourniquits. |
When I was a young EMT ( back when no one had heard of EMT) a wise old medic told me that the more he learned, the less he carried....I have found this to be very true. |