 Hi, I'm Kevin, and I was asked to go over medical supplies that you might want to consider in a troubling environment. There's lots of different first aid kits, medical kits that you can get. Something more simple would be like this, you know, just has some bandaid and some burn ointment and things of that nature in there. This unfortunately will not get to through a situation where you would be down, no hospital available for one to two weeks or even maybe more. These just cover just your basic cuts, scrapes, bruises, that type of thing, when your kids get cut or grandkids or whatever. Just basic essentials. Nothing that you could really do any major trauma on or treat, any major trauma such as a serious cut or a puncture wound or a leg break or an arm break or things of that nature. But they're handy to have around. I'm not going to discount these, they're great to have around because they can perform simple things and you don't have to use a lot of other supplies for them. Another type of first aid kit that I want to cover is what they call an IFAC kit. Now an IFAC kit is a first aid kit more or less like a tactical first aid kit. You see a lot of military members carrying these on them on their person all the time. The IFAC stands for Improved First Aid Kit. I used to think it was individual first aid kit for a long time until I was corrected on that. IFAC, I-F-A-K, Improved First Aid Kit. And they call it an improved first aid kit because the troops during World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam and so forth carried first aid kits on their person to be able to... And it was to carry medical supplies to just treat that person. It wasn't used to, you know, for me to take out and treat somebody else with my supplies. It was used to, you remove it from the person when they're injured and you use their supplies to treat them. And these are great to put in a bug out bag in your car just to treat yourself. Some of the items that are inside one of these kits is a tourniquet such as this. And what this does is it goes on your person and then you put it on where you need to put it on at and it comes with this little handy thing here that you twist until it tightens up and then you clamp it and then seal it off. And you're supposed to put the time and date on it that you put it on that way when you do get medical help that, you know, but in a situation where you're down and you can't get to a hospital, you know, this is kind of a last result. After so long of a period of time, you're going to need to handle that trauma differently. And that's something that has to be taken into consideration when you're prepping for first aid. Some of the other things that are included in this kit are EMT shears, one of these needles, and this needle is for a tension pneumothorax in case you were to get a stab wound, a bullet wound, some sort of a puncture wound where it affects your test cavity. These things are used to, you know, that air would get into your chest cavity and start putting pressure on your lung, thereby starting to collapse your lung, and then you would eventually die from a lack of breathing. What this is used for is when the wound is sealed up, you put it in a particular location and it allows that air to escape and then allows you to breathe in your lung, fill it back up that remaining area, so then you're able to breathe. And this releases air and doesn't allow the air to come back into the chest cavity, but you have to seal up the other wounds and dress those wounds first before applying this. And Doc is our combat medic and he has a class that he puts on and it's a combat medic trained and he instructs everyone on how to properly use these devices and things that you would find in your first, in your IFAC kit. They cover a lot of trauma. I mean, you have all sorts of things in here. In Israeli bandage, you have clotting gauze in case you were to get, you know, a wound, you'd have to be able to pack your wound with this clotting gauze to stop bleeding before or even with applying a turn kit. And it has some other medical supplies in there too. What's nice about this is it can all get sealed up and go and hook right on your backpack or something and they're very easy to remove. They can even go on your belt if you want to do it that way also. But in a home environment where you have yourself, your wife, your kids, you're not going to want just one of these for everybody. That's not going to be able to treat a whole lot of different traumas that you might experience. That's when I went with, and I thought about this for a long time. I thought what, you know, what if something did happen and we were down for two weeks or months, we wouldn't be able to get to a hospital. I would need all those medical supplies that basically, for the most part, a hospital has to treat a lot of those traumas. And I got a little overwhelmed at first and I kind of went through a list of all the things I might possibly need. And I overwhelmed myself about, wow, how am I going to gather this? What am I going to use this for? What am I going to use that for? Well, what I did was I went out and purchased a trauma pack. And this is a trauma pack. It has lots of first aid supplies in it. A lot of which I have added over time too because I've also taken additional supplies and added to it. Some things that I had to add to it were some colloidal silver. Now I have a colloidal silver gel that can be applied for first aid and a colloidal silver solution that can be used. A lot of the supplies that I don't have with me today are too bulky to carry, but stuff like saline solution, hydrogen peroxide, isopropyl alcohol. And what I do is every time I go to the store I'll buy a few things and then I'll bring it home. And then I'll put it with a lot of my supplemental first aid supplies and other resources that I use together. And I have no means in promoting that you steal. But during the hospital visits my wife has had some medical problems and she was in the hospital quite a few times over the past year. And they leave their medical supplies sitting around the room. And I even asked one of the nurses, is this what you all are going to do with this? Oh, we're just going to throw it away. And I said, well, I said, do you mind if I take some of this? And she goes, well, really, I'm not supposed to let you, but I guess if I walk out of the room and it's not here anymore, I guess it doesn't matter. So I was able to acquire some additional things. I have some vacuum bottles, which are very good in case you have to perform a procedure called a phlebotomy. Also, they're also useful for, you know, you have a chest wound or something, you start filling up with some fluid. You need a way to drain that off, so you're going to have to be able to do a procedure to drain some of that off. And so I got some of these plastic vacuum bottles for that specific purpose. Some of the other things that I got, too, were these needles for blood collection and so forth. You can use these for IVs and various things like that, these butterfly valves. And some of this is personal supply as well, because I have a blood condition. I have to have my blood taken off every three or four months. And so in a situation where I'm down, I would not be able to do that or I wouldn't be able to go to the hospital. So I acquire some of these things so that I could be able to perform those procedures myself. And of course, you know, you have to know what you're doing, too. So you have to be educated on that. And that's where some of the material that Doc will cover in the combat medics class will help with that. I also kind of thought of, well, there's other situations in which I would have to be able to perform. So I acquired, actually I got this for a Christmas gift a couple of years ago. And it's great reading. And if you ever have to perform some sort of a surgery, should you absolutely have to, this book would have really helped me out. And it's called Emergency War Surgery. And it covers a lot of different techniques. How to, you know, wounds, injuries to the chest, injuries to the ear, other major injuries, doing tracheometry, various things like that, emergency stuff. I mean, in a situation where you're down for two to three weeks with no hospital available and you have a serious trauma like that, you're obviously not going to let your loved one die. I mean, you're not going to let them play or die. You're going to try to do something. So I try to prepare myself as much as I can. Another material that's helpful for covering first aid, Boy Scout Handbook. Great thing to have on hand. They cover a lot of basic first aid in it. This trauma pack comes with instructions as well. Covering how to do all sorts of different first aid, trauma type first aid. Other books that I have had that have subjects on first aid as long as other things are this emergency preparedness and survival guide that I happen to pick up. And then also things such as a back to basics, a homesteading book and various things like that. And I also have obviously a surgery kit too. Other things that you might have is, you know, you might have to be able to suture a wound. You might have a big enough cut that, you know, you have to be able to clean that cut out with saline solution and clean it out and suture it up. So I also have a suturing and staple kit that I had picked up at a prepping seminar that was in Lebanon, Missouri, I think they have it every year. And so I was able to pick some of those materials up and acquire those. So anything that has to do with anything medical I try to acquire from any type of source that I could possibly gather. What if Callaway County decided to blow up or was under a terrorist attack? You would need to be able to have some potassium iodide to protect your thyroid gland in case of a nuclear emergency. I also have some of those as well and I acquired these and they have instructions on the back as far as the dosage is concerned depending on the age and so forth. And these are designed to only take for like a week or two. So I have some of those too, I acquired some of that. The other thing I looked at too when I was trying to put together my first aid supplies is what am I going to do if I want to get a cold? What am I going to do if I get the flu? Cold medicines won't be available unless you stock up on those and then those can get very bulky and can get very expensive. So I went the route of acquiring herbal remedies and so forth. And I found some of those herbal remedies actually work better than the cold medicines that I can pick up in the store. Things like colloidal silver, various other things like tinctures, peppermint oil, oregano oil, echinacea golden seal, things of that nature. A lot of those things are very useful. Of course you always want to check with your doctor before you actually take something to see if you can take it because it can have interactions with other medications. So the things I consider, some of the things that you might want to consider when you build your own kit is collect the items you need or did you think you're going to need? You know, you can customize the pros of building your own kit or you can customize it to things you need for your medical health and your family's medical health. Some of the cons to building your own kit is it can take an extremely long period of time to gather up all of these things and purchase them one by one over a period of time. Pros to purchasing a kit like this is it's going to have most of the items you need and then you can add things to it. The cons to it is it can be expensive. One of these kits can run anywhere from $150 on up to purchase one of these. I chose to go that route because it gave me a good start and to getting that. But then I'm able to get the items that I need. I ran across a couple of websites too that I used to also purchase other little things that I might possibly need. And I have a handout here that goes over some of these trauma kits and medical supplies so that you can take in consideration some of these. One of them is stomedical.com which is located here in St. Louis. They supply all kinds of medical supplies and they will sell to the public. So it's a good place to collect certain things and they have a wide variety of supplies. Not just your regular first aid stuff but they have things that, you know, diabetic supplies, things of that nature. They have all sorts of stuff that you can purchase from them. Another one is practicaltrauma.com and a site called CPRsavers.com. They have a whole slew of different types of kits that you can purchase to give yourself a start on that. And I also included in on here a site called doomandbloom.net that covers a lot of varying subjects on first aid and prepping. They have a lot of different things such as what about the, you know, acquiring of antibiotics and so forth to prevent infection and stuff. And they go over things such as deficient antibiotics which are basically the same thing or which you can purchase those online as well. But you have to be able to store them in a proper manner. And they talk about things of that nature on the website as well about how to store antibiotics and how to keep them in the actual lifetime of them. So I don't know if you want to start passing these around. I also included some things that came with my trauma pack when I bought it. And that might give you a good start to kind of think about things that you might want to acquire should you decide to want to start building your own. I thought it would really give a good start for somebody to have that as well, to have a list of things that you might want to consider in your first aid kit. I also, and along with my herbal remedies that I have, I also have a, and I have a couple different versions of this too, a foraging guide. A lot of the things that are covered in this foraging guide cover a lot of things that you might find in your backyard or in the woods. And they cover how to use them medicinally and for food. So it's something else you may want to consider too. And I am told that I'm out of time. Out of time. It's very hard to cover a lot of this information in a short period of time. But at least some of this can give you a start on acquiring some of the things that you need to be able to treat yourself and your family. Does that also include like an epiphan or any of the other things that some of these bar sites do? Yes, you can. I can't get something that's thanks to you. How much does the iPad kit run? They bear it. They bear it. 100 bucks. 100 bucks. You get that every few minutes.