Lets take a look at the items in my workshop trauma kit.
I wanna make this very clear, this video is not about safety. It's about preparedness.
It's better to be prepared for something and not need it. Than it is to need it and not
be prepared for it. The first thing to note is that this is not a first aid kit. If I
need a band aid because I have cut myself. I'm going to go into the house and get a band
aid. This is different in that if I have to use any of the items in kit. Somebody is going
to the hospital. So I have here my standard basic medical pouch. This type of pouch was
important to me because I didn't want the kind that had the zippers that were on the
side that you had to bring around and it basically took to hands to open it up. I didn't want
a metal case sitting in the workshop getting all rusty, dented up and falling on the ground.
What I wanted was something that I could open with one hand and this one fits that bill.
Now you will notice on the inside I have a blood type patch that is velcroed to the inside
here. This is just incase medical personnel hasto come to my house. They wanna know my
blood type. Perhaps only my children are around. They may not have that information. It's going
to be right here. So let me take all the contents out and we will go over them one at a time.
First I have a six inch hemorrage control bandage or an Israeli bandage if you prefer.
Now I also have some sterile gauze pads. Couple of sizes here. Two inches by two inches. A
four inch by four inch size and then a five inch by six inch size. A triangular bandage.
This on is forty two by forty two by fifty nine inches. Then this is some quick clot,
twenty five grams. In case your not familiar with what this is, if you have every seen
the old world war two movies were a soldier gets shot and then a field medic comes over
and rips open a pak and pours some powder looking stuff onto the wound. That is essentially
what this is. It is a substance that stops bleeding quickly. However, they have kinda
improved the technology a little bit and they have put it into a sponge. So what you would
do is rip open this pack. Apply this directly to the wound and it would help your clotting
process. Oh one piece of not on the quick clot by the way. These things do have an expiration
dates to them. So every couple of years you'll have to replace these with a fresh pack. This
one here is a new one and it expires in 2018. So that is about three years out from now
so I've got a while on this one yet. Here I have a roll of sterile gauze. This is four
yards worth. I would put this on the wound and then I would wrap this around it and keep
the pressure applied. Here I have a pair of non latex gloves. Some antiseptic wipes. And
a small roll of duct tape. And of course I may get the question on this, "well if you
have duct tape in your workshop what do you need it in your trauma kit for." Well the
idea of the trauma kit as a whole is to have everything that you need for wound care without
having to go to a secondary place. I don't wanna have to search around for where ever
my duct tape happens to be. I know I have a small roll of this in my trauma kit. And
then back here on the back side of this pouch I have my tournaquet and of course if all
else fails. Turn to this. And once you apply this, I believe it's two hours that you have
to get to the hospital once you apply this. This one just happens to have a place where
you can write the time stamp for when it was applied. Also I believe it came with the tournaquet,
this is the trauma and accident management instructions. So it tells you how to apply
the tournaquet and then there is some basic first aid information in here. One word of
note about where I choose to keep this in my workshop. I like to keep it in a place
where I don't have a tendency to pile things in front of it. So a door way is a good place
because obviously door ways need to be kept clear and you usually do a pretty good job
of keeping them clear so you can go in and out of them. Also I like to keep it low. If
the only ones around to help me in an emergency situation are my children, I want it low enough
so that they can go and at least get it and bring it back to me if I'm not able to get
to it myself. And then at that point they can go and get help. Whether its to get a
phone and dial 911 or to go over to the neighbors house and get help that way. I'm also CPR
and First Aid certified and i do my best to pass that knowledge and that information along
to my children when they are old enough where I think they might be able to understand it
a little bit. And even if they are not able to understand it. If you keep going over the
information, time and time again and you keep reminding them of those things, then eventually
they just get it. So like I've said, I have never had to use any of this stuff. Hopefully
I can keep it that way but just in case it is good to be prepared. So what did I miss.
What do you keep in your trauma pak that I don't keep in mine. Let me know in the comments
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