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EDC First Aid?

iklwa

iklwa

Master Class
My questions are:

  • How many of you daily carriers also go with a first aid kit?
  • What supplies do you carry?
  • Is a tourniquet part of that kit and what type/brand is it, if any?
  • How do you carry it comfortably and what brand/type of carrier is it?
The last question is possibly the hardest hurdle for me to cross. I am already pretty loaded. I go concealed. A first aid kit is pretty bulky.

I know, I know, lay off the dangling participles…
 
My range bag has a "Doom and Bloom" gun shot kit. Cel-x rapid stop bleed, HyFin Vent chest seal twin pack, 6" hemorrhage control bandage (ace bandage on steroids),CAT tourniquet, Sam temp splint, gauze pads assorted band aides and a pair of snipes. Packed in a 7"w X 9"t X 4" deep zippered mollied pouch. Tried condensing to a 4X6 belt pouch and could not get comfortable with it at all. I am retired, range bag is in the truck or in the house so I am not really carrying it...but it is handy.
 
I keep a First Aid Kit in a ziplock bag in a back pack pouch in my pickup:

3 feet of rubber tubing for a tourniquet and an 8 inch long 1/2" dowel to hold it.
CELOX bandages, granules, and syringe.
A chest seal
Betadine First Aid Solution
4x4 compressed gauze pads
Rolls of gauze
Cloth medical tape
A couple large safety pins
Steri-strips
Band Aids
Scissors
Tweezers
Survival blanket
Acetaminophen
Aspirin
Benadryl

At our gun club, every range has a 1st Aid Kit mounted on a wall or post.
 
I keep a first aid kit in my vehicle, in my shop, in my home and on my person when I am in the wilderness. My kit is fairly basic, I will try to list the contents from memory

North American Rescue or Israeli pressure bandages
3m large wound strips
self adhering gauze
ace bandage
saline in a squeeze bottle
sam splint
eye patch
butterfly closures
medical skin stapler
assorted boo boo items (bandaid etc) finger, knuckle
large and med square gauze
abdominal bandage
chest seal
tourniquet
duct tape
super glue
burn cream
burn gel (blue bandage)
trauma shears (stainless steel)
tweezers
forceps
led light
finger splint
venom extractor
 
I’ve got a blowout kit with my range bag; trauma shears, gloves, valve mask, nasopharyngeal tube, Israeli bandages, quick clot gauze, CAT tourniquet, occlusive dressing...a few other goodies. Similar but more in my vehicle.

If I was going to carry one as an EDC? Gloves, pocket mask, gauze, tourniquet (CAT. All others suck, ime). Most everything else can be improvised.
 
iklwa said:
My questions are:
  • How many of you daily carriers also go with a first aid kit?
  • What supplies do you carry?
  • Is a tourniquet part of that kit and what type/brand is it, if any?
  • How do you carry it comfortably and what brand/type of carrier is it?
The last question is possibly the hardest hurdle for me to cross. I am already pretty loaded. I go concealed. A first aid kit is pretty bulky.
I know, I know, lay off the dangling participles…
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KASHIRA-3 said:
I keep a first aid kit in my vehicle, in my shop, in my home and on my person when I am in the wilderness. My kit is fairly basic, I will try to list the contents from memory

North American Rescue or Israeli pressure bandages
3m large wound strips
self adhering gauze
ace bandage
saline in a squeeze bottle
sam splint
eye patch
butterfly closures
medical skin stapler
assorted boo boo items (bandaid etc) finger, knuckle
large and med square gauze
abdominal bandage
chest seal
tourniquet
duct tape
super glue
burn cream
burn gel (blue bandage)
trauma shears (stainless steel)
tweezers
forceps
led light
finger splint
venom extractor
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lol "fairly basic"
 
I try to keep a basic first aid kit in each vehicle, and a larger one in the house. When I was in a regular office, we kept a large first aid kit there. When I used to camp with the scouts (as a leader or as a parent), we always ensured someone had a full first aid kit in their pack.

I read articles posted here and in some of the magazines I receive and know I *should* be more diligent in carrying some basic supplies with me, but have not gotten to that point yet.
 
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