Jay - the kit looks great and should cover anything but the really big stuff. If you add a tourniquet and pressure dressing to it (part of the STB kit) it will help with that. I would forget the airway kit (very limited use) but add a pocket mask for your protection. Hopefully you won't need to use any of it!Ok, it's been a day or two or 45, and so here is the pictorial version of that inventory I promised.
I may get back to it to itemize in text, or not...
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Front drop, compartment 2; this usually also contains an IR forehead thermometer, but it was in my bedroom at the time.
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The main top compartment has 4 slices, a wide one across the back, 1A contains bandaids and related stuff. Apologies; Xen apparently ignores camera orientation, and also appears not to provide manual controls for editing...
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Front left is 1B; cold packs (and I have heat packs to go in there), plus Curad spray bandage, which I like better, it turns out than...
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Center is 1C; assorted OTC... including NuSkin, which oversprays even more, doesn't set as fast, and flakes off when it does. Where possible I've chosen either non-contact or individually-packed items, except where that ran the cost up unreasonable; sometimes, that multiplier is *six* to one or even higher.View attachment 23702Right is 1D; gloves and some cohesive bandages. Gloves are an example of the price multiplier which I remember: 10 pair in sterile envelopes cost about 4 times as much as 25 pair in a bulk box, like these.
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Compartment 4; cough drops and Sucrets.
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This should be 3, unless I've screwed up. Half a dozen magic mylar blankets (cause they're disposable), a couple prism paks of temp-stable Instant Breakfast. And a few gallon freezer slider ziplocs, for utility, including disposing of medical waste -- which means anyone's bodily fluids that aren't *yours*.
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In compartment 6 (yeah, I don't know how we got here either, and the actual bag's in the car and I don't have the energy to go haul it inside right now...) lots of rolls of gauze.
Items I am still contemplating include folding splints, tourniquets, and an airway set. Not sure they carry enough utility for their potential risk, as discussed above. Plus, I personally am not trained in using any of them -- that doesn't make them useless to pack, but...
There are half a dozen KN94s in a bag in there somewhere; I dunno why they didn't show up here...Jay - the kit looks great and should cover anything but the really big stuff. If you add a tourniquet and pressure dressing to it (part of the STB kit) it will help with that. I would forget the airway kit (very limited use) but add a pocket mask for your protection. Hopefully you won't need to use any of it!
Possibly.
Reasons for the best efficacy of chest compression-only CPR include a better willingness to start CPR by bystanders, the low quality of mouth-to-mouth ventilation and a detrimental effect of too long interruptions of chest compressions during ventilation. Based on our findings, compression-only CPR should be recommended as the preferred CPR technique performed by untrained bystander.
So in short, the Assumption I made in my last clause is pretty close to accurate: compression only CPR is better up at 40,000 ft, where there's likely to be more of it, but two component CPR is actually still better, *assuming it's being done properly*.Reasons for the best efficacy of chest compression-only CPR include a better willingness to start CPR by bystanders, the low quality of mouth-to-mouth ventilation and a detrimental effect of too long interruptions of chest compressions during ventilation. Based on our findings, compression-only CPR should be recommended as the preferred CPR technique performed by untrained bystander.
from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3484593/#:~:text=Reasons for the best efficacy,of chest compressions during ventilation.
I have—it is in the top lid and I forgot to photograph it—a little general first aid kit that folds out from something the size of a business card. I'll look at this one too, thanks.I just purchased this book from Lost Art Press and would highly recommend it. Jeffrey Hill (the author) is an ER physician and woodworker, and it's specifically focused on first aid for workshop accidents. The book has a list of recommended supplies as well as instructions to deal with a wide variety of injuries (cuts, punctures, amputations, etc.) It's also small enough to easily fit in a first aid kit and is sold by a small independent publisher and bound in the US.
And in a number of places there are social organizations offering training and supplies. Some community engagement might be beneficial.Naloxone is available over the counter now.
An excellent point; I'll have to start checking them where I work, to see if they're staying on top of that.AED's were mentioned above and in another CB post it was mentioned that sometimes the "cry once, buy once" tecnique comes into play. The AED and it's wallmount housing is installed..........and there is no scheduled maintainance. So when it is really needed the battery could be defective or the charger is dead.
Not sure if there is a code requirement but the manual for my AED at work described everything to do during the inspection, how often to inspect, and directed you to sign an included tag after inspections. So while you probably won't go to jail for skipping it, you could potentially find yourself found legally negligent and lose a lot of money.An excellent point; I'll have to start checking them where I work, to see if they're staying on top of that.
I wonder if, like elevator licenses, they have any date-display requirements.
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