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I was just wondering how many of you keep your own personal trauma/non-trauma bag/kit/jump bag in your personal car? If so,what do you have in it and have you ever used it?
 
I just have a standard first aid kit. It came with my car (Xterra). The kit is actually pretty well stocked for something that just came with a car. I have actually used it several times. Most of the time it's been on myself! I actually use my XTerra for the intended purpose (outdoor recreation) so carnage has occurred more times than I can count!
 
I found an old steth at the bottom of my backpack.
 
haha. I have been debating about gathering some basic first aid supplies to throw in my car just in case...just basic stuff like baind-aids, gauze, cling wrap.....I just do not know if it is worth it or not. I guess itsbetter to be prepared :P
 
I too have debated purchasing a small bag of goodies. My fire department allows EMT to respond directly to the scene of a Med call, so it would come in useful, occasionally. Just haven't pulled the trigger, yet.
 
are you seriously kidding me. Every week. Without fail.
 
daedalus said:
are you seriously kidding me. Every week. Without fail.
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I was thinking of getting a mobile inflatable hospital and contracting with a local airlift company to bring my portable CT and xray imaging equipment. But I have a really hard time deciding between the mobile surgical theatre setup and the 25 bed ICU cause on my salary I cannot get both yet and still outfit my 1985 chevy with a $10,000 lights and siren setup.

Just incase a meteor falls from the sky, knocks out a bridge that leaves patients standed on the other side of a river than the hospital and I happen to witness it.

:P
 
Well, remember that I outfitted my 20 y/o chevy bronco with a cath lab. I really want an IABP machine back there, I am saving up as we speak. I hear Galls is going to make a IABP machine for professional certified rescuers. You need the cert first, though. It's a 2 hour CE lecture done entirely online through Galls with an open lecture quiz at the end. Im stoked.
BTW, go with the theatre. That way you can have the attitude of a surgeon and believe that critical care medicine is a waste of your time. JK HEHEHE
 
That's nothing. I got a neurosurgeon tucked into my spare tire compartment. He likes it back there, he said. He even pays for gas.
 
bstone said:
That's nothing. I got a neurosurgeon tucked into my spare tire compartment. He likes it back there, he said. He even pays for gas.
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but has he figured out how to change your tire?
 
Veneficus said:
but has he figured out how to change your tire?
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No that's why he's in there. He can do brain and spine surgery but has no idea how to change a tire. Says he's making progress.
 
Tell him to take an EMT class... It will prepare him for task such as a blown tire.
 
gmartin0814 said:
I was just wondering how many of you keep your own personal trauma/non-trauma bag/kit/jump bag in your personal car? If so,what do you have in it and have you ever used it?
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Hon, there are about a bazillion posts on this topic. Seriously, it has been debated to death. The best advice is to carry as little as possible and only if you are working with an agency that will require you to respond in your own car.
 
I donno about you guys, but I have ECMO in my trunk.
OP, do a search, see the many past discussions. It is not worth your money or potential liability to provide much care out of the back of your car.
 
Well, remember that I outfitted my 20 y/o chevy bronco with a cath lab
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Diagnostic or interventional?

Vene, I'd go with the mobile ICU.

You guys put me to shame, I was thinking of maybe outfitting my bicycle with a mobile burn unit complete with a Port-O-Vene. The Port-O-Vene is an essential to any jump kit. That way you'll always have someone who knows what he's doing with you. Maybe I'll even spring for a mini surgical kit to keep in my handle bar basket, you know, to relieve ICP with a burr hole when I peddle past an MVC, treat a pnuemo with a chest tube, cauterize or suture major bleeding. After all I just earned my EMT-Sasha cert.
 
BossyCow said:
Hon, there are about a bazillion posts on this topic.
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But to find them would require one to venture out of the catch-all "EMS Talk" forum and actually look into the proper forum for equipment discussions, or better yet, for the moderators to actually work to keep discussions in the proper forums. Neither seem likely to happen.
 
AJ Hidell said:
But to find them would require one to venture out of the catch-all "EMS Talk" forum and actually look into the proper forum for equipment discussions, or better yet, for the moderators to actually work to keep discussions in the proper forums. Neither seem likely to happen.
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Or use the search function...
 
"Search function"?


Is that some medic term I didn't learn in my first aid class?
 
Come on guys, all you need is a trunk monkey! They can do anything you need!
 
Personal Jump kit in car

gmartin0814 said:
I was just wondering how many of you keep your own personal trauma/non-trauma bag/kit/jump bag in your personal car? If so,what do you have in it and have you ever used it?
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I am an EMT-B and keep a personal jump kit/ and oxygen in my vehicle. It has essentially everything that is in our jump kit in the rig. It is also equipped with the essentials to begin oxygen administration. I live in a rural area, so many times have responded to the scene before the ambulance arrives and can start oxygen and get vitals immediately. I also carry blankets, c collars. I am the emergency manager for our county also so respond to fires where this can be a critical need sometimes.
 
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