Post by woodyz on Apr 21, 2015 20:46:53 GMT -7
As I have told before I have been shot several times before this most recent finger shooting incident.
Those times and this time medical attention was within acceptable range and all of the supplies needed was there when I needed it.
But I made my second trip to the drug store today for bandages and anti-biotic cream, etc. And I realised I don't carry near enough "stuff" in my first aid kits.
Take gauze pads as an example.
I am using two sealed sterile 4X4 pads, one cup of hot water, 1/2 roll of sterile gauze, and 1/3 roll of elastic tape/wrap each time I change the bandage on my hand. Which I am doing 2 or 3 times a day. Then there is a four ounce bottle of surgical scrub and a tube of antibiotic cream a week.
Not so much with a CVS right down the road, but what I carry in my FAK wouldn't last me long.
A day in my 48 and 72 hr kits, little more than a week in my RV/camp kits.
Now I could get by and maybe change the bandage once a week, if I kept it clean, if it wasn't draining or didn't bleed through. But do I want to take that chance?
I think my FAK are well rounded and have some good useful things it them. This hand injury is simple and small compared to some things that could happen when you couldn't go to CVS for a while.
So my kits are getting lots more sterile gauze betadine/scrub and more than one tube of ointment.
Not to mention getting the wound to the point it just needs a bandage changed.
I have scalpels, I have sutures, I have clamps, I can dig out foreign objects and broken bone pieces. But do I just cut nerves and tendons and blood vessels or do I need to tie them off? I don't think the guy I am doing this on is just going to lay there and let me do it with an aspirin for pain. What can I give him, what am I going to do if the answer is aspirin? If you paid attention to the movie "SHOOTER" you have an answer, although I don't intend on carrying around cans of whipped cream, I might be able to find something like it.
I have several tourniquet options and had discussed them with my family ahead of time. (good thing they knew where the FAK was huh?) I was bleeding pretty good and the first option didn't work, they quickly went to option two which did. The first option failed due to technique not equipment. Good thing I had multiple options. I still needed blood when I got to the hospital.
YEP! There is another problem, what about blood loss, what are you going to do then? www.manuelsweb.com/blood_loss.htm
anyone watch the movie "SHOOTER" why did he mix up all that salt water? hypertonic saline www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080512174547.htm easy enough to carry, but you need the equipment to get it into the bloodstream, also easy enough to get now, maybe not "out there". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy_drip
What you can carry may never be "enough" but you can carry smarter and carry more.
just sayin'
Those times and this time medical attention was within acceptable range and all of the supplies needed was there when I needed it.
But I made my second trip to the drug store today for bandages and anti-biotic cream, etc. And I realised I don't carry near enough "stuff" in my first aid kits.
Take gauze pads as an example.
I am using two sealed sterile 4X4 pads, one cup of hot water, 1/2 roll of sterile gauze, and 1/3 roll of elastic tape/wrap each time I change the bandage on my hand. Which I am doing 2 or 3 times a day. Then there is a four ounce bottle of surgical scrub and a tube of antibiotic cream a week.
Not so much with a CVS right down the road, but what I carry in my FAK wouldn't last me long.
A day in my 48 and 72 hr kits, little more than a week in my RV/camp kits.
Now I could get by and maybe change the bandage once a week, if I kept it clean, if it wasn't draining or didn't bleed through. But do I want to take that chance?
I think my FAK are well rounded and have some good useful things it them. This hand injury is simple and small compared to some things that could happen when you couldn't go to CVS for a while.
So my kits are getting lots more sterile gauze betadine/scrub and more than one tube of ointment.
Not to mention getting the wound to the point it just needs a bandage changed.
I have scalpels, I have sutures, I have clamps, I can dig out foreign objects and broken bone pieces. But do I just cut nerves and tendons and blood vessels or do I need to tie them off? I don't think the guy I am doing this on is just going to lay there and let me do it with an aspirin for pain. What can I give him, what am I going to do if the answer is aspirin? If you paid attention to the movie "SHOOTER" you have an answer, although I don't intend on carrying around cans of whipped cream, I might be able to find something like it.
I have several tourniquet options and had discussed them with my family ahead of time. (good thing they knew where the FAK was huh?) I was bleeding pretty good and the first option didn't work, they quickly went to option two which did. The first option failed due to technique not equipment. Good thing I had multiple options. I still needed blood when I got to the hospital.
YEP! There is another problem, what about blood loss, what are you going to do then? www.manuelsweb.com/blood_loss.htm
anyone watch the movie "SHOOTER" why did he mix up all that salt water? hypertonic saline www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080512174547.htm easy enough to carry, but you need the equipment to get it into the bloodstream, also easy enough to get now, maybe not "out there". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy_drip
What you can carry may never be "enough" but you can carry smarter and carry more.
just sayin'