[Mattmann]

Hello ladies and gents.

I’m looking to buy another first aid kit and wanted to see what y’all consider the best ones out there. I’m leaning to mountain man medical but am not sold on them yet. Thanks in advance!


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[Mike in Texas]

I’ve found it’s best to put your own together. Build to your activity and skill level. Also it’s usually cheaper. I usually start with a basic home first aid kit. Individually packaged medicine and different size and types of bandaids. Then build up from there. My range med kit is way different than my home and general travel kit.

 

[WrongRecroom]

I will echo others ..What are you needing it for just around the house stuff or bad things happen need to stop the blood ? And also what is your training level on this stuff as well ... Have you had any basic first aid or at least CPR training

Me I would start with getting training lot of places maybe even your job offer free or low cost CPR and such training


Like one of my jobs brought in a Nam war vet to teach crash course training in medical stuff

 

[WrongRecroom]

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I like them as they put ever thing in easy to understand pouches and layout ie grab this for this

https://www.narescue.com/

is also another great place to grab stuff

 

[SunTsu]

Need more info. the first thing we need to know is where will this kit be stored, and what is the purpose?
First aid kit could be wallet size box of band-aids and antibiotic ointment, a backpack full of trauma gear for range accidents or mass casualty events, or it could be a 4'x8' cabinet full of every piece of medical gear you can think of.

 

[Mattmann]

Sorry folks!

I’ve had basic medical training when I volunteered on the fire department but I also have taken medical classes with some training groups. Everything from stop the bleed to “tactical medicine”. This will be in my truck as part of my catch all first aid kit. Stopping the bleed, car wreck, gun range, etc. Obviously tourniquets, chest seal, blood clot, etc but also basic stuff too. I have thought about building my own, but call me lazy, I’d rather buy a complete one. I’ve looked at mountain man medical, dark angel, my medic, etc but didn’t know what folks had experience with. Thanks for the feedback!


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[sammeow]

As long as I have makers mark, taco bell napkins and duct tape, I’m good.

 

[Havok]

I purchase my stuff from North American Rescue. I don’t use a premade kit though. Putting my own together better fits my needs.

 

[Gettin Old]

For my trauma kit, I like Skinny Medic/Medical Gear Outfitters. (Yes, I take a TCCC based tac med class every couple years).
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For my boo-boo kit I picked up a small first aid kit at Costo and put what I wanted in an Altoids tin.

 

[OldVet]

I call 911.

 

[TrappingNH]

I’ve found it’s best to put your own together. Build to your activity and skill level. Also it’s usually cheaper. I usually start with a basic home first aid kit. Individually packaged medicine and different size and types of bandaids. Then build up from there. My range med kit is way different than my home and general travel kit.

This. Mine contains 1 CAT tourniquet gauze for wound packing israeli bandage along with pain relievers standard band aids and duct tape. If you can find a STOP the BLEED class that is worth its weight in gold.

 

[ctr]

As long as I have makers mark, taco bell napkins and duct tape, I’m good.

Laugh but you are closer to the truth than most realize. Too much tacticool extended into First Responder arena. Tourniquets are the most over rated least needed item in most kits sought after by civilians. So too chest seals, and other items.

Basic BVM, handful of 4 x 4s, a roll of cloth tape, and a cravat. Add a pair or two of nitrile gloves to protect yourself and you are golden.

 

[Bad Bob]

For what use? A general first aid kit, for how many people, a trauma kit?

 

[Bad Bob]

Laugh but you are closer to the truth than most realize. Too much tacticool extended into First Responder arena. Tourniquets are the most over rated least needed item in most kits sought after by civilians. So too chest seals, and other items.

Basic BVM, handful of 4 x 4s, a roll of cloth tape, and a cravat. Add a pair or two of nitrile gloves to protect yourself and you are golden.

That depends on where one finds themselves. I have used field expedient TQ's and saved 4 lives during the time they were forbidden and would have kissed a wino for a purpose built TQ. Did you know the most preventable cause of death is bleeding from an extremity?

 

[OldVet]

This. Mine contains 1 CAT tourniquet gauze for wound packing israeli bandage along with pain relievers standard band aids and duct tape. If you can find a STOP the BLEED class that is worth its weight in gold.

My son's "medical" training utilized a live pig. The object was to keep the pig alive, no matter the injury. Slashed, chopped, shot, whatever. Keep it alive. He said the pig ultimately expired, but it took several life-threatening injuries to do the job.

 

[Gettin Old]

I call 911.

Probably the good fortune of the Tiki Bar being next to the fire station . Where I'm at (the Great State of Confusion) you'd bleed to death before the squad got there.

 

[OldVet]

Probably the good fortune of the Tiki Bar being next to the fire station . Where I'm at (the Great State of Confusion) you'd bleed to death before the squad got there.

There is a fire station about a mile away from the bar. Its trucks are always racing right by the bar. I call them the trucks with the Christmas light.

 

[Havok]

My son's "medical" training utilized a live pig. The object was to keep the pig alive, no matter the injury. Slashed, chopped, shot, whatever. Keep it alive. He said the pig ultimately expired, but it took several life-threatening injuries to do the job.

And just when youre proud of yourself for saving it, someone walks up and shoots it again.

 

[ctr]

That depends on where one finds themselves. I have used field expedient TQ's and saved 4 lives during the time they were forbidden and would have kissed a wino for a purpose built TQ. Did you know the most preventable cause of death is bleeding from an extremity?

In combat yes. In civilian life that does not match my experience nor does it match the ER stats. Throw age demographics on it and still won't get there.

 

[Bad Bob]

In combat yes. In civilian life that does not match my experience nor does it match the ER stats. Throw age demographics on it and still won't get there.

None of them were combat. Two were farming accidents, one was a GSW and one was someone who had both legs severed by a train. An additional one that could have used one was my wife when she got hurt by a hay baler. As it is she had a bruise of my hand print on her upper arm for a week as I held it tight enough to stop blood flow thru the brachial artery for 45 minutes waiting for an ambulance.