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Posted: 3/14/2011 1:55:35 PM EDT
[#1]
I've got a pretty complete kit attached to my bug out pack. I leave it in my truck. I carry the pack with me at the range cause it has a camelback too.
My blow out kit is too big to carry daily. It has chest seals, needles, tourniquet, quick-clot, izzys, sutures, etc. |
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Posted: 3/14/2011 1:58:12 PM EDT
[#2]
The blue force gear one, although there are a couple other things I want to add but have not gotten around to it
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Posted: 3/14/2011 2:02:47 PM EDT
[#3]
I have a bunch of Adventure Medkits stashed all around the place.
One of the "0.3" kits in my EDC bag, 'sportsman' and 'hunter' kits in the vehicles, loose supplies at home. I don't have a combat trauma kit, though I suppose I should correct that. |
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Posted: 3/14/2011 2:03:18 PM EDT
[#4]
Jump kit that I have refined over the last 22 years in the fire service, the size has gotten smaller but it is geared toward trauma as a primary and medical as secondary.
I carry it in which ever vehicle I am in for the day and I have a scaled down version that I carry in my go pack that has some of the same items. |
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Posted: 3/14/2011 2:06:07 PM EDT
[#5]
I'm an EMT , so I keep a bag that can handle just about anything.
Honestly, I have so much crap that I am going to have to upgrade to a STOMP pack. Inside of my jump bag, I have two smaller bags. One is a boo-boo kit for little things, and then a "Oh God we're going to die" kit For stuff like you're talking about. The key thing in a GSW kit is to keep it simple. Use QC only as a last resort. Direct pressure, SOF-T, etc. then use the QC. |
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Posted: 3/14/2011 2:09:25 PM EDT
[#6]
Gear subforum has tons of information, but can be devoid of... tact sometimes.
I am not an EMT, so I keep mine simple: one for the car, one for the range/hunting/war belt (I added on a Halo chest seal for the latter, for obvious reasons) I keep this handy (from Tactical medical solutions) |
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Posted: 3/14/2011 2:11:15 PM EDT
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I took a class with Tactical Responce and Yeager made fun of my kit, claiming it was small and "Girly". My kit is a backpacking first aid kit inside of a princess cruise tote that also holds 2 bags of fluids and tubing. I don't care about it being "Girly", it has trauma dressings, triangular bandages, a needle decompression kit, KING tubes, a BVM, Needles, IV's, meds (epi 1:1,000 and 1:10,000, Benadryl, Solu Medrol, Brethene, Zofran, Nitro and ASA) I also have a couple suture set ups, steri strips and basic wound care supplies. I can take care of annything that may occur and maintain my patient until other resources arrive - which is all I need. I have a large kit at home which has a much larger supply of resources. For the car my little kit kicks A$$!
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Posted: 3/14/2011 2:13:31 PM EDT
[#8]
 That is actually two kits. Top stays in my range bag but could go on my ruck. It's got 2x izzy dressings, a celox packet, a CAT abnd a triangular dressing and shears. The bottom stays on my 1st line (belt) has a izzy dressing, celox packet and scissors.
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Posted: 3/14/2011 2:16:15 PM EDT
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I've had this for a few years: http://www.galls.com/style.html?assort=general_catalog&cat=&style=TK099 I usually keep it in my range bag, but if I'm doing a course or going somewhere I may need it, I'll attach it to my pack.
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Posted: 3/14/2011 2:17:24 PM EDT
[#10]
Mines pretty basic, it's just a bunch of random stuff
I picked up over time. A couple of old style .mil field dressings and cravats, lots of 4X4s and tape, some shears, a BP cuff and Stethescope, Couple rolls of Kurlex. I'm not planning on trying to treat a mascal by myself. |
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Posted: 3/14/2011 2:17:59 PM EDT
[#11]
Some kit from Cav Arms. With some extra ABD pads and incidentals like tylenol and bandaids.
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Posted: 3/14/2011 2:18:48 PM EDT
[#12]
God bless you guys. Most times, I forget my phone.
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Posted: 3/14/2011 2:28:14 PM EDT
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Quoted: God bless you guys. Most times, I forget my phone. It's not like I have a multicam blow out kit on my belt in court  You know what actually got me thinking about it? I had heard that Matix and Platt got some of the guns they used in the 1986 shoot out by shooting some guy at a rifle range. My range has working farm on oneside and some trailers down the road, but if someone was shot on the range, particularly when it's not near deer season, it could be a day, or a couple of days, before anyone would find you, even though you are within 200 yards of a busy road and most of the range is visible from the road. Even if you just fucked up and accidentally hit yourself in a limb and had a bleeder you'd have a pretty good chance of dying there.
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Posted: 3/14/2011 2:29:54 PM EDT
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I keep a squad CLS bag with a surgeons kit and extra bandages and a leatherman, a few colored and infrared chemlight, extra water, surefire light with extra batteries in each car.
In my everyday wear/day pack i keep a modified IFAK with some add ons (benadryl, straight aspirin, pepto/antacid tabs, assorted band aids, neosporin, extra bandages, a couple disposable scalples, tweezers, shears) I keep a 6" wide mouth crescent wrenach in there too and I go NOWHERE without a leatherman. I hate being caught un-prepared. |
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Posted: 3/14/2011 2:35:23 PM EDT
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USMC IFAK
(1ea) Pouch NSN 8105-09-000-2725 IFAK A1 Component Individual First Aid Kit - NSN 6545-01-539-2740 (includes the following items): (1ea) 3.5 oz. Quikclot Packet - NSN 6510-01-499-9285 (2ea) TK4 Tourni-Kwik Self-Application Tourniquet 40" - NSN 6515-01-542-7696 (2ea) "H" Compression Bandage w/8" x 10" Ab Pad - NSN 6510-01-540-6484 (2ea) Primed Compressed Gauze 4.5" x 4.1 yards - NSN 6510-01-503-2117 IFAK A1 Minor First Aid Kit Component NSN 6545-09-000-2727 (includes the following items): (5ea) Adhesive Bandage 2" x 4 1/2" - NSN 6510-01-514-4518 (10ea) Adhesive Bandages, 3/4" x 3" - NSN 6510-00-913-7909 (2ea) Triangular Bandages, 40"x40"x56" Non-sterile - NSN 6510-00-201-1755 (1ea) Combat Reinforcement Tap 2" x 100" - NSN 6510-01-549-0927 (1ea) Burn Dressing 4" x 16", Water-Jel - NSN 6510-01-243-5894 (8ea) Bacitracin Antibiotic Oinment 0.9 gram (1ea) Povidone-Iodine Topical Solution USP 10% 1/2 floz. - NSN 6505-00-914-3593 (1ea) Water Purification Tablets 10 Pack, Katadyn Micropur, Sodium Chlorite - NSN 6850-00-985-7166 from: stays in the truck with me (I'm with my truck most of the day) if I'm at a match I'll usually carry it with me... same with going out in the middle of nowhere... |
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Posted: 3/14/2011 2:42:40 PM EDT
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The top three battlefield killers are bleeding, airway restrictions, and tension pneumothorax. Any good blow out kit should be able to treat all three.
Take a class, read a book, watch videos on the internetz. There are tons of resources out there. The only thing worse then watching one of your buddies experience an injury related to a firearm is watching it and not being able to do anything about it. This kit is on my belt and is with me anytime I shoot. I also have a bigger kit in the car with the same stuff and a bunch more other items. 
In there you have the following Shears Nitrile gloves CAT tourniquet Israeli pressure dressing Gauze Hemcon Dressing see through occlusive sticky dressing Hyfin Chest seal Chest needle Small blue led light duct tape medical tape NPA airway device Tampon Last but not least INSTRUCTIONS!!! Its good to have a reference under stress. |
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Posted: 3/14/2011 2:54:12 PM EDT
[#17]
Full sized med kit, no IFAK.
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Posted: 3/14/2011 2:56:27 PM EDT
[#18]
This is kind of funny to me. I work in the medical industry as an IS tech, and after talking to the supply guys about building a first aid kit (they think I'm thinking exclusively about a car accident) they've started passing me supplies that can't be reused. Like...if a patient dies with a half-open box of individually wrapped gauze pads, no matter the rest of the contents of the box is fine, we can't use them on another patient. So I've been getting Kerlix, tape, gauze, all sorts of stuff. They've also said I can buy whatever I want from the supply room.
Anyway, I go down to Supplies today and ask if they ever get any chest seals in. The head of the department (who used to be a combat medic) giggles and says "I know what you're doing." Now they think I'm a survivalist. 
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Posted: 3/14/2011 3:28:01 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/14/2011 4:02:15 PM EDT
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Quoted:
USMC IFAK (1ea) Pouch NSN 8105-09-000-2725 IFAK A1 Component Individual First Aid Kit - NSN 6545-01-539-2740 (includes the following items):
(1ea) 3.5 oz. Quikclot Packet - NSN 6510-01-499-9285 (2ea) TK4 Tourni-Kwik Self-Application Tourniquet 40" - NSN 6515-01-542-7696 (2ea) "H" Compression Bandage w/8" x 10" Ab Pad - NSN 6510-01-540-6484 (2ea) Primed Compressed Gauze 4.5" x 4.1 yards - NSN 6510-01-503-2117 IFAK A1 Minor First Aid Kit Component NSN 6545-09-000-2727 (includes the following items): (5ea) Adhesive Bandage 2" x 4 1/2" - NSN 6510-01-514-4518 (10ea) Adhesive Bandages, 3/4" x 3" - NSN 6510-00-913-7909 (2ea) Triangular Bandages, 40"x40"x56" Non-sterile - NSN 6510-00-201-1755 (1ea) Combat Reinforcement Tap 2" x 100" - NSN 6510-01-549-0927 (1ea) Burn Dressing 4" x 16", Water-Jel - NSN 6510-01-243-5894 (8ea) Bacitracin Antibiotic Oinment 0.9 gram (1ea) Povidone-Iodine Topical Solution USP 10% 1/2 floz. - NSN 6505-00-914-3593 (1ea) Water Purification Tablets 10 Pack, Katadyn Micropur, Sodium Chlorite - NSN 6850-00-985-7166 from:
stays in the truck with me (I'm with my truck most of the day) if I'm at a match I'll usually carry it with me... same with going out in the middle of nowhere... I carry this as well in the car |
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Posted: 3/14/2011 4:04:59 PM EDT
[#21]
Quoted: The top three battlefield killers are bleeding, airway restrictions, and tension pneumothorax. Any good blow out kit should be able to treat all three. I agree Just saw the tacmedsolutions site - one question - where to get a chest needle....
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Posted: 3/14/2011 5:41:57 PM EDT
[#22]
Tactical Response has 14ga needles.
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Posted: 3/14/2011 5:45:01 PM EDT
[#23]
Just your basic bag full of various dressings. It's intended for me, (Heavy into blood thinners) though I have used it on others in the past.
There is a bigger bag in the boat. |
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Posted: 3/14/2011 6:25:33 PM EDT
[#24]
Quoted: Tactical Response has 14ga needles. awesome thanks! |
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Posted: 3/15/2011 5:19:56 PM EDT
[#25]
tag.
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Posted: 3/16/2011 7:19:17 PM EDT
[#26]
Quoted: Quoted: The top three battlefield killers are bleeding, airway restrictions, and tension pneumothorax. Any good blow out kit should be able to treat all three. I agree Just saw the tacmedsolutions site - one question - where to get a chest needle.... Chinook has everything.... http://www.chinookmed.com/ Decompression needle: http://www.chinookmed.com/cgi-bin/item/02152/s-thoracic_airway/-Decompression-Needle%2C-3.25%22–––––––––––––––––––– |
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Posted: 3/16/2011 7:25:21 PM EDT
[#27]
I carry bandaids and neosporin - shit I'm acutally qualified to use. Oh, and I have a couple field dressings, I learned how to use those somewhere or other.
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Posted: 3/16/2011 7:28:39 PM EDT
[#28]
Let's ask a more meaningful question. How many of the people that carry trauma kits actually know how to use the stuff contained in the kit? By that I mean something more sophisticated than a first aid merit badge.
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Posted: 3/16/2011 7:35:09 PM EDT
[#29]
Quoted:
Let's ask a more meaningful question. How many of the people that carry trauma kits actually know how to use the stuff contained in the kit? By that I mean something more sophisticated than a first aid merit badge. To add on to this: where can someone with the technical expertise of, say, a lawyer, learn to properly dress a GSW? |
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Posted: 3/16/2011 7:38:25 PM EDT
[#30]
I carry an issued IFAK at work. Never got my CLS bag even though I took the course.
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Posted: 3/16/2011 7:46:57 PM EDT
[#31]
I am of the opinion, that anyone who is into guns, takes time to train, and goes shooting every week, yet does not know basic first aid... is a bit foolish.
A man should be able to shoot, suppress a small fire, and perform basic first aid. |
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Posted: 3/16/2011 7:49:42 PM EDT
[#32]
Quoted: The top three battlefield killers are bleeding, airway restrictions, and tension pneumothorax. Any good blow out kit should be able to treat all three. Take a class, read a book, watch videos on the internetz. There are tons of resources out there. The only thing worse then watching one of your buddies experience an injury related to a firearm is watching it and not being able to do anything about it. This kit is on my belt and is with me anytime I shoot. I also have a bigger kit in the car with the same stuff and a bunch more other items. http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f219/flyingjibus/Firearms/P1010227.jpg http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f219/flyingjibus/Firearms/P1010228.jpg http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f219/flyingjibus/Firearms/P1010229.jpg http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f219/flyingjibus/Firearms/P1010230.jpg http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f219/flyingjibus/Firearms/P1010232.jpg In there you have the following Shears Nitrile gloves CAT tourniquet Israeli pressure dressing Gauze Hemcon Dressing see through occlusive sticky dressing Hyfin Chest seal Chest needle Small blue led light duct tape medical tape NPA airway device Tampon Last but not least INSTRUCTIONS!!! Its good to have a reference under stress. Nasal Pharyngeal Airway AIRWAY device? Let me guess.... you work for the redundant department of redundancy department.   Nice rig! |
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Posted: 3/16/2011 7:52:08 PM EDT
[#33]
Quoted: Let's ask a more meaningful question. How many of the people that carry trauma kits actually know how to use the stuff contained in the kit? By that I mean something more sophisticated than a first aid merit badge. The only thing in a trauma kit that I likely dont know how to use... is the Pneumothorax needle. At the EMT-B level, I'm neither certified nor qualified in it's use. |
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Posted: 3/16/2011 7:57:33 PM EDT
[#34]
Eh, I have an M-5 bag full of stuff that I keep in the Deuce.
LC |
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Posted: 3/16/2011 7:59:06 PM EDT
[#35]
Wife and my car each have a kit with the following:
4" Izzy Bandage primed guaze emt shears 1 roll 3m durapore tape Basic trauma/bleeding control. Range bag has a similar kit and also includes a tourniquik and quikclot. |
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Posted: 3/16/2011 8:11:50 PM EDT
[#36]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Let's ask a more meaningful question. How many of the people that carry trauma kits actually know how to use the stuff contained in the kit? By that I mean something more sophisticated than a first aid merit badge. To add on to this: where can someone with the technical expertise of, say, a lawyer, learn to properly dress a GSW? Take the EMT-B course at the local community college or wherever it's offered. If your area has a volunteer ambulance, join it. They'd love to have an extra set of hands. Sadly, if you don't use your knowledge, it fades fairly quickly, especially if you didn't get to spend time using it on actual cases. Most of the medical emergencies you'll ever encounter will not involve physical trauma. You'll be surprised how much help you can offer if you can assess a sick or injured person, not injure him further, and present your findings clearly when advanced care is available. You might also be able to volunteer at the local ER, although they won't let you do very much for obvious reasons. Still, you'll be around the compelling medical cases and you'll get to talk about what you saw with the pros. It will make the knowledge much more accessible. ETA - I keep a plastic box in my trunk with gloves, CPR mask, pen, paper, 4x4s, tape, Band-Aids, trauma dressing, burn sheet, and sterile water. The other thing you really need is a watch with a second hand. Also, know where to take a pulse. It tells a lot more than heart rate. |
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Posted: 3/17/2011 2:39:24 PM EDT
[#37]
http://www.rescue-essentials.com/Casualty_Response_Kits_Modules_s/122.htm
They seem to carry some good stuff, packed in a variety of different options. |
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Posted: 3/17/2011 3:11:34 PM EDT
[#38]
Quoted: It's not intended for me to use on myself, it's for others to use on me. I have a habit of fainting almost immediately upon the sight of my own blood. Let's ask a more meaningful question. How many of the people that carry trauma kits actually know how to use the stuff contained in the kit? By that I mean something more sophisticated than a first aid merit badge. |
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Posted: 3/17/2011 6:07:07 PM EDT
[#39]
Quoted: Let's ask a more meaningful question. How many of the people that carry trauma kits actually know how to use the stuff contained in the kit? By that I mean something more sophisticated than a first aid merit badge. I keep my Red Cross CPR basic first aid up to date, make sure myself and a few close friends regularly practice deploying Izzy bandages/ tourniquets etc. |
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Posted: 3/17/2011 6:08:29 PM EDT
[#40]
couple of oscars and a band-aid
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Posted: 3/17/2011 6:45:59 PM EDT
[#41]
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The blue force gear one, although there are a couple other things I want to add but have not gotten around to it What else are you wanting to add? |
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Posted: 3/18/2011 9:49:03 AM EDT
[#42]
Duct tape and chapstick.
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Posted: 3/18/2011 12:41:24 PM EDT
[#43]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
Let's ask a more meaningful question. How many of the people that carry trauma kits actually know how to use the stuff contained in the kit? By that I mean something more sophisticated than a first aid merit badge. To add on to this: where can someone with the technical expertise of, say, a lawyer, learn to properly dress a GSW? Take the EMT-B course at the local community college or wherever it's offered. If your area has a volunteer ambulance, join it. They'd love to have an extra set of hands. Sadly, if you don't use your knowledge, it fades fairly quickly, especially if you didn't get to spend time using it on actual cases. Most of the medical emergencies you'll ever encounter will not involve physical trauma. You'll be surprised how much help you can offer if you can assess a sick or injured person, not injure him further, and present your findings clearly when advanced care is available. You might also be able to volunteer at the local ER, although they won't let you do very much for obvious reasons. Still, you'll be around the compelling medical cases and you'll get to talk about what you saw with the pros. It will make the knowledge much more accessible. ETA - I keep a plastic box in my trunk with gloves, CPR mask, pen, paper, 4x4s, tape, Band-Aids, trauma dressing, burn sheet, and sterile water. The other thing you really need is a watch with a second hand. Also, know where to take a pulse. It tells a lot more than heart rate. Or at a minimum..... a 40hr first responder course..... |
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Posted: 3/18/2011 12:54:38 PM EDT
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Quoted:
Let's ask a more meaningful question. How many of the people that carry trauma kits actually know how to use the stuff contained in the kit? By that I mean something more sophisticated than a first aid merit badge. Combat Livesaving level stuff courtesy of Uncle sam I wouldn't want to be responsible for any higher level of care. |
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