How to Make a First Aid Kit : Selecting a First Aid Kit

[nexivdr]

expert village is fucking horrible, they put up 20 2-3 min videos that could easily be one long video without all the ads. please reconsider the way you upload videos.

[PK102260]

Kind of cut this one short. Don't you think. Didn't give a hell of a lot of good info

[johnmonk66]

What the? So the only things you need are a list and an instruction manual?

WHAT IS IN THE DAMN KIT?

[tilleyneil]

Rubbish. Firstly you need a risk assessment. Who is the kit for? A family, an office, or a machine workshop, a spray shop, a local government office for out of work payments or housing benefit?? It makes a difference to the make up of your kit. No painkillers or creams are necessary, access to cold water, cold packs, ice and flannels or maybe heat packs, a couple of bandages and a couple of triangular bandages plus plasters, common sense and a phone. This is First Aid, not medical assistance!

[gisda1]

I found it cheaper to buy a first aid kit pre assempled than to go and buy all the items you want. It is better to buy a kit and then add on instead of building one from scratch.

[JamesConradCfloresJr]

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[havingfunhere]

She's not an expert in first aid. A monkey could have made this video. Jeez...

[AnobisBloodwing]

Those standard kits really blows. Best type of kit is to make one yourself.

mostly your kit must be aimed at stopping blood! Sterilization and cleaning second. Dressing as last. And yous mostly wide dressings. Not those small roles. They just dont cut it and suck. A good setup four level 1 kit wood be:

[AnobisBloodwing]

4+ dressing sponges. 10 X 10CM 4+ Non-adherent dressing 7.5 X 10CM 1 perforated tape +/- 2meter 4+ alcohol swabs. The thick ones! 1 tube ore such iodine. 2 latex gloves 1 small tube of disinfectant gel 1 needle 1 razorblade 4+ band aids in different sizes 8+ cotton swabs 1 small zip bag with verity of painkiller anti diarrhea pills few bags of salt. 1+ quikclot ore bloodclot 1+ toothpick 2+ wide dressing roles

[AnobisBloodwing]

Put everything in zip bags. And label it!

so if one bag will rip ore leak. It wont go on all your other stuff!

Their are more stuff that you can put in. but thats taste of yourself and location.

[coleaxe]

don't forget a triangular bandage

[yoyoimhome]

What about Triangular Bandage? You need to have at least something for fractures & sprains. Also some pain killers and antihistimines.

[AnobisBloodwing]

Triangular bandage you do not need. If youre in the city. The person with an broken arm can easily hold it in an good position while been driven to hospital. If your hiking you dont need it to. You have all the material with you. Shirt jacket bandana pants even your underwear can be joust four it. A good triangular bandage takes too much room and weight. And holding a broken leg or arm in place. You can easily jous locally found sticks. And bind them with wide dressing roles ore even ducktape

[AnobisBloodwing]

Painkillers I already mentioned.

"1 small zip bag with verity of painkiller anti diarrhea pills few bags of salt."

[yoyoimhome]

But not even as a temporary bandage? Bleeding can be stopped with towels, shirts, clothing, paper towels, etc. If your in the city, where service is available you don't need a large first aid kit and you don't need to focus it all on bleeding like nutnfancy did. He did it specifically for working with sharp knifes and firearms. Saying you don't need a triangular bandage is like saying a person with a broken leg will not have to be evacuated in the backcountry.

[yoyoimhome]

Most people are also allergic to latex, so nitrile gloves are better. But if you don't need a triangular bandage then you don't need heavy duty bloodsponges. Antihistamine is handy as a first response for Anaphylactic Shock. Aspirin for Heart Attacks & Strokes, Wound Closure Strips (So Compact and Thin there's no way this is un-needed, especially if you really need stitches.

[puertoricoindepencia]

You want non latex gloves, some people are allergic to latex.

[kambelzful]

@AnobisBloodwing what is ore? 

[DigitalEchoFox]

Would you rather they had never put the video up at all? They're just trying to help.

[RCvolunteer1978]

the back ground for your expert is NO GOOD i have build kits for friends and family i use to come across traffic acc plus family with COPD and heart pacemakers you have see what the person may need with day to day operation truma is a concern

[gurielzeigerman]

These "experts" don't know jack

[yoyoimhome]

I agree...

[Flomounier1]

its herman Li's sister

[guyascott]

i'd like to fix the gash between her legs..

[bfinallytherock]

Hello, i'm a rocket scientist, a doctor, a theologian and am extremly modest to date!

My biggest skill is how to read and in ISBN No. 0-7176-1050-0 (the 1981 uk H&S (First Aid )Regs - it details what the UK HSE recommend as what to put in yer first aid kit and what else you can add dependant upon risk assesment

Are u lot getting fed up wi all these experts too?

Yeah, burn spray -alergic to chemicals in it? and so on.....

butterfly closures - go see a GP