What You Should Have In A First Aid Pack

[sandman503]

katydids remind me of Tennessee

[cfreu7]

Great vid :)

[OregonCoastGhost]

I like that you use your gear on camera. Great visual aids.

I wish more videos did "SHOW" as well as "TELL" Thanks!

[beaker126]

Just a an idea, but when I took my last first aid/CPR course, for sugar for diabetics, they recommended keeping some of the little tubes of frosting around, works like sugar but you can put in between their cheek and gum, and it gets absorbed faster then granulated sugar.

[rlmarin1968]

I like the organizing aspect. I would suggest using pill bottles to hold your ammonia and sting sticks to avoid accidental ruptures. Good vid!

[Lumpia911]

njrotc cadet (who went to Basic Leadership Training) VERSUS cold pack...

cold pack wins.

[64CSAR]

lol if they have a major cut (anywhere) you wrap their leg with gauze?

[soueu2002]

hello

do more

is very good

thancks

[Filmaker25]

That's a small first Aid kit.

[MakoBlaze911]

lol, stung by a spider

[superrhino100]

Are you like 13 or what??

[gomunkul]

too much toys/gadgets.

also you have very, very superficial first aid knowledge.

[the3percent]

Great vid! A good foundation for starts. Each kit will vary a little(depending on the mission at hand). i.e. quick clot, butterfly closures, SAM splint, and never forget the tourniquet. Salt would be good in the type of kit your running with btw. You're tracking.

[mebetter1234]

where can you buy ammonia inhalents?

[imdaviddalen]

why did you waste so much crap for this video? like we cant feel the ice pack.. so why pop and use it? btw the ice pack used for heat stoke also

[SadlyDiscontinued]

those gloves are an awesome color. I'm stuck with purple Barney the Dinosaur gloves, which is all I could find in my local market.

[tcphins]

boring speaker

[usarmycaptainamerica]

Its very hard to tell whether or not someone is hypo or hyperglycemic, the treatment in the field is the same, and you want to put the sugar between the cheek and the gum, not on the tongue for quick absorption.

One think to keep in mind when building a 1st aid kit is what kind of injuries you expect to encounter.

This kit is not designed for any serious injuries.

[usarmycaptainamerica]

(cont)

The gloves, sugar,ammonia inhalants,cpr barrier, and especially the kerlex gauze are good items. I am not real crazy about the rest, most of the rest is a waste of space and time.

[kambelzful]

@usarmycaptainamerica yes it is

[usarmycaptainamerica]

kam-- Yes it is what?

[kambelzful]

@usarmycaptainamerica this could handle major wounds

[usarmycaptainamerica]

kambelzful-- Sorry buddy but I disagree. You offer nothing to support your statement.

Feel free to elaborate if you like.

[kambelzful]

@usarmycaptainamerica Kerlix and gauze are used on major wounds. I feel thats enough to back up my statement :-)

[Marty32]

@kambelzful Just saying something that usarmycaptainamerica is trying to say. This is a first aid kit, not a trauma kit that he was referring to.

First aid kit = leans more towards relief of suffering. Trauma kit = stopping someone from dying after receiving trauma or multi-system trauma. Kerlix gauze is fine for that, but what he also really needs is along the lines of a compression bandage (probably two) and a bunch of non-stick pads and MORE gauze pads.

[Marty32]

(Cont) He's going to have a lot of trouble trying to wipe blood away to find where the wound is, or using gauze pads to put immediate pressure onto a wound before opening up something else. He also states that you put more gauze on top of other gauze if it bleeds through. Sure, but it's preferred that you apply non-stick then gauze. That way if the treatment centers are going to take it off, they won't have to go through such a big process of watering it and peeling it off.

[Marty32]

(cont again..sigh) Other than that it's a great start to a kit. I'd also suggest to get more training--if money allows, a First Responder or an EMT-B course.

[kambelzful]

@Marty32 a non-stick would not absorb blood and the blood would come through it and the dressing would fall off. after applying a gauze pad and then more pressure on top, once the bleeding stops the gauze may stick (which has never even happened to be before). In that situation you could irrigate the gauze off with clean water.

[kambelzful]

@Marty32 which by the way doesn't take very long at all.

[kambelzful]

@Marty32 well first aid kits are meant for "first aid", meaning a first response for accidents. trauma kit is more geared toward only trauma situations, while first aid kits are comfort + trauma. More meant for family's.

[Marty32]

@kambelzful Of course. But maybe I should have noted that I was strictly speaking from my experience treating and managing injuries at events and sports teams and when being the medic for my group of hiking friends. The non-stick pads I meant more towards telfa or abd pads. What my concern is that he doesn't have enough on the trauma side. 

[kambelzful]

@Marty32 ABD pads work great for bleeding so your absolutely correct on that.

[Marty32]

@kambelzful Besides, I wasn't saying you were wrong, kambelzful, I was simply saying that usarmycaptainamerica was concerned about a few things trauma wise when he stated "serious injuries". What are your qualifications?

[Marty32]

@Marty32 kambelzful, asking for your qualification is out of pure curiosity.

But as I've already said, this isn't a bad first aid kit

[kambelzful]

@Marty32 EMT-B my mothers a nurse and dad's a paramedic. Firefighter in training. A pretty extensive medical backround.

[Marty32]

@kambelzful I'm an EMR (Emergency medical responder) w/ lots of experience--I don't know if it's close enough to EMT-B in the U.S but up here in Canada it's one of the three levels of paramedics and trained as one makes me an extension of EMS here. Sounds like you have it well there, good luck with the firefighter training eh?

[kambelzful]

@Marty32 yes good look to you to. thank-you.

[blckbeltx123]

GREAT VID

i recomend punching the ice pack

[ghosthunter978]

nice vid

[Madman2k1]

for stings and bites you can apply mud and let it dry to suck out the poison. but after its dry be sure to clean the mud .

[man2wild]

very very very very very very basic.

[Tmdkiller]

3.44 LOL Nice video really you showed the application of the items which most other videos don't. You seem to be really sincere and rich lol Good job !

[ConflagerationFEAR]

cool

[mmmbad]

Great video! I'd like to know where you got the sting swabs, too! Thanks!

[yoyoimhome]

Hart Medical carries a good 8 pack of sting swabs for 6.95 at Walmart.

[starablaskova3]

nice video!

where did you get the sting swabs?

can you give me the website? thanks

[yoyoimhome]

Hart Medical carries a good 8 pack of sting swabs for 6.95 at Walmart.

[kambelzful]

@starablaskova3 Stat medical.com