Wilderness First Aid Kit: Essential To Your Survival
Posted on November 6, 2009
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Presentation and explanation of various items in a kit. An outdoor first aid kit could someday save a life including your own. Do not go without one. It should be small and compact, light, and contain the essentials. Everyones kit is a little different and should have items pertaining to the user.
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what do you mean cannot be saved and ruined forever? As in scaring or worse? An old school pharmacist told me about No Nix Siptic Pencils, used for razor cuts, that can be used to clot decent sized cuts. Ty for any info you can provide.
Very nice kit well thought out! Great info and vid!!! Thanks
EMU oil is wonderful for burns!!! It stops the pain immediately.
That’s not 100% accurate. Quikclot will destroy tissue and infect the area if used improperly. The wound must be absolutely sterilized and cleaned before you use the stuff or it WILL get infected. And yes, it is last-ditch. Better live than die.
what about the quickclot sponge?
The same goes for the sponge as well. Just make sure it is used properly!
thank you
great vid. im a big fan keep up the good work man!!
dude hold things still lol
“The would must be absolutely sterilized”???
#1-You can NEVER sterilize your skin or would- Sterilizing involves killing all living organisms&cells- which includes your skin. You only sterilize equipment.
#2- Quick-Clot is designed for field use to stop severe hemorrhage…u won’t have time to disinfect before using quick-clot…u use it..get to hospital for wound debridement.
Still a great video…I would also include some broad spectrum antibiotics–if u can get someone to write a prescrip.
I think you mean “sanitized” or just cleaned, not “sterilized”. Sterilizing your body can be dangerous
10 dollars!?!?!?!?! in Italy an emostatic gel pack cost 3-4 euroes and have 3 gelly foil in each
P.S great video guy!!!!!!
In the wilderness we must consider the possibility of a deep wound, or an abundant bleeding, either by an accident with a knife or axe, etc, or a sharp stone and even a branch or trunk, which can act as a spear, for that I add to my first aid kit these items
- Elastic Bandage / BloodStopper / Abdominal Pad / Israeli Battle Dressing, Compression Bandage /. and some others.
That way you have a extra help in case you can`t use the QuikClot right away.
Thanks.
Thanks for the helpful video!
Oh my god thank you, you are one of the few people who mention that iodine can be poisonous, -_- sorry I just rarely hear people mention that use of common sense is important.
good vid bro and check out r vids and c if u think we should put stuff in them thx
thats cool. when would you start your journey. when this crazy year comes
with the medication part, its good to handle them with tweezers, taking them out of the medication bottle and placing them in the first aid emergence medication bottle or whatever you use, cause touching medication and keeping them stored can greatly lower their shelf life and damage or weaken the medication
“Almost no Rattlers left”
Why is that?
Kind of sad really. Please explain. Thanks.
P.S. I had to pause for a moment and frown on the other viewers comments re: “Eye bandages”. That part of this video was obviously meant for being in a sole survival situation, right?
Anyway, keep up the good work. I am learning so much here mate! Thanks.
Excellent kit.
I have only one suggestion based on personal experience…
Add benadryl and/or an EpiPen for severe allergic reactions… anaphylaxis (severe allergic reactions) can be fatal in a matter of minutes!
I found out (the hard way) that despite having no allergy to bees or yellow jackets… I am somewhat allergic to the more aggressive bald-faced hornets. I was very lucky that the person I was with carried benadryl religiously.
Is it possible to purchase Epi-pens? I was under the impression that they were by prescription only.
You do need a prescription. Most Docs will write you one without any issues.
Liquid Benedryl is cheaper and very effective.
the moleskin should be applied before the blister develops, I think it’s called a hotspot.
a blister is a wound than can get infected…
“Superglue is made of a substance called cyanoacrylate. When it comes into contact with liquids like water, it forms a plastic mesh that will keep skin, or anything one wants glued, neatly bonded together. However, regular superglue has methyl alcohol, which creates heat in order to produce the bonding effect of superglue. Thus using superglue to close a wound in deep tissue could result in killing some of the surrounding skin cells”. You can buy a safe alternative called “Liquid bandage”
good video i would suggest some sutures or stiches especially in a backpacking scenario where your no where near medical help you will need to be able to close the wound and then hike out alot of times and most bandages wont hold. d33 lux had a good point though ive used super glue on cuts a number of times and it works good. you can go to medical supply websites and buy surgical superglue that wont damage tissue