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62_derick

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I have been trying to put together a bls kit to carry in my car and with me when I go on family events and so on.

Heres what I got:

Sam Splint
irrigation
Triangle Banages
Bandaging (4x4's 2x2 bandaides, kerlex)
bp cup (adult and xl adult)
sissors
oral and nasal airways
cpr mask
ace bandage
ice and hot packs
pen light
bee sting

and i think a couple more things cant remember of hand.

Is there anything anyone would recommend adding or taking out.

I will get a total list soon.

or how would you recomend it being set up.

In the process of getting o2 and ambu bag
 
JPINFV

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For a family kit?

Add:

Tape
NSAIDs (or other OTC pain reliever)
Burn gel
Topical antibiotic
Forceps


Either get a cheap stethoscope or lose the BP cuff.
Lose the airways.
Don't worry about the ambu bag and oxygen.
 
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62_derick

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just outta curosity why lose the airways and bp cuff
 
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Airways go above and beyond what a bystander can do. Depending on your area's laws using them off-duty can get you in legal trouble. You are not an EMT off-duty, you are just someone who knows first aid and CPR.

BP cuff is pretty useless. You should be able to perform as above without getting someone's BP. If someone needs medical attention, get them to medical attention. A BP shouldn't affect that decision nor will it change what you do with them as a bystander.
 
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62_derick said:
just outta curosity why lose the airways and bp cuff
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...because if you need them then you should be calling 911 anyways. Most likely, in a familial setting, you're never going to use them, so they're going to be taking up space and adding weight.
 
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62_derick said:
just outta curosity why lose the airways and bp cuff
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Because some states don't let you use them without medical control oversight? Seriously, a basic first aid kit is more than sufficient. Anything more and you're a Ricky Rescue.
 
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Bystander stuff usually goes one of 3 ways...

a) Your cousin twists and ankle and you look at it, bandage up, tell em to RICE + ibuprofen and see the doctor if it gets worse or persists. Or put a bandaid on a boo-boo with your awesome skills.

b) You drive by an accident and call 911. Someone is seriously sick or hurt and you call 911. In these cases, if you do end up touching someone, you're almost always just holding c-spine, maintaining an airway... maybe doing CPR if needed.

c)One night when I lived in an apt. with my dad there was an obliterated-drunk girl staggering around the parking lot howling and crying. A concerned resident had come out and started watching her... when my dad yelled down from the patio "hey! My daughter is an EMT... she'll come help."

I could've killed him. I went down and, staying a distance from her, asked if she was ok. She wailed incoherently something about her boyfriend this and that. I asked her how she was getting home, where her friends or whoever are.... no idea what she replied. Seeing as she'd been out there a while and was causing quite a ruckus, I told the little crowd of onlookers to just call the police. They looked at me wide-eyed like I was supposed to magically fix her drunkness as an EMT... but I persisted. Just call 911. And while we waited for the police, I stood like 15 feet away from her and just watched to make sure she didn't run in to traffic or anything.
 
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Here is what I would carry and some off the top of my head uses for the stuff.

(2) Triangle Bandages - Sling and Swathe, Pressure Bandage, Stabilize a pelvic fracture, combine with trauma shears to make a tourniquet.
(10) 4x4s - Combine with tape to make bandaids, 10 should be enough to control some decent bleeding (hold in place with triangle bandage if you need to)
(1) Roll of Bandage Tape - combine with 4x4s to make bandaids, tape stuff
(1) Roll of Coflex/Coban - this stuff is my favorite, you can do lots of stuff with it
(1) Ice Pack - self explanatory
(1) Pair shears - cut stuff, see above for tourniquet
(1) Tube antibiotic ointment/Neosporn - not really necessary, but always nice
(1) Pack of benzocaine or the like - good stuff for bee stings in kids

That should be an ample amount of gear to provide anything family/friend might need if they get hurt.
 
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That kit is completely inadequate. What if your granny comes in contact with organophosphates? Where's you atropine? I don't see any adenosine either, so I guess you're ganna be bonned come SVT time.

Things you should be carrying:
-RSI gear, including Cric kit for failed airway. Etomidate, Fentanyl, Suxamethonium and Pancuronium..just in case.
-Ketamine - What if you end up in a prolonged extraction? should probably throw a power saw in there as well.
-Episiotomy tray - you never know who's vajayjay will hack childbirth.
-Open Thoracotomy gear - its really your only option in cardiac arrest 2ndry to massive internal chest trauma at the EMT level.
 
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Wow is all i got to say haha. Its cool to be prepaired ill give you that. Its always good to carry first aid kits with you with some gloves and a pocket mask (just in case) thats about all, but yet you never know what could happen.
 
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Mucho stuff on this elsewhere in EMTLIFE.

We/EMTLIFE had another basic a while back who was adamant about carrying all sorts of stuff along (like oxygen) and wouldn't listen when we told him it was a very bad idea.

Getting outside the box, isn't it a better idea to not take someone to where they will have a heart attack than to take them and need to do CPR?

 
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Melclin said:
That kit is completely inadequate. What if your granny comes in contact with organophosphates? Where's you atropine? I don't see any adenosine either, so I guess you're ganna be bonned come SVT time.

Things you should be carrying:
-RSI gear, including Cric kit for failed airway. Etomidate, Fentanyl, Suxamethonium and Pancuronium..just in case.
-Ketamine - What if you end up in a prolonged extraction? should probably throw a power saw in there as well.
-Episiotomy tray - you never know who's vajayjay will hack childbirth.
-Open Thoracotomy gear - its really your only option in cardiac arrest 2ndry to massive internal chest trauma at the EMT level.
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You forgot manitol, a black and decker power drill and an ICP probe; what if nana has a stroke way the hell out in the sticks on a family picnic?

Should probably add a CT machine too
 
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