csly27

This guy's a freakin' idiot.

You don't want this kit. It is proof again that money and brains don't necessarily go together. He's raided the local CVS for a lot of crap that has very little utility for the purpose it is meant to serve. Let's hear it for the marketing department at Bayer, J&J, etc.

Crap he doesn't need:

First Aid Cream

Hydrogen peroxide bottle

Saline for irrigation. Tap water or water that has been made safe to drink will suffice.

Lots of Quikclot

Fluorescein dye strips for the eye, but where is the UV light?

Bite/sting extractor kit

Activated charcoal capsules

Plastic eye shield

Eye dressings

Eye wash

How many freakin' tubes of Orabase does he need?

Eyewash cup

Post midriatic sunglasses

Finger splints

Sting relief pen, sting relief cream

Poison ivy sting relief spray (how many different products with benzocaine does he need?)

Burn gel

2 tick removers?!

Trauma shears, bandage scissors, folding scissors... How many pairs of scissors do you need?

Cold compresses, too many, too heavy.

Let's not forget the 9line card, not that he would have any ability to call in a 9 line to anyone.

Lens cloths?!

Fenestrated drape. He's got one. a) you don't really need it, and he's got wound care supplies for lots of wounds, so why only one disposable drape?

Nail polish remover wipes, yet he doesn't have a pulse ox. So who cares if there is nail polish?

Separate forceps and sutures for suture removal. Why not just use what you have in the wound care kit?

300mg vial of injectable morphine, but no narcan. Let me know how that works out.

Oh look, more Quikclot.

Emergency intubation kit. I don't know if it's occurred to anyone here that a) unlikely he's ever intubated or really been trained to, and how will you manage the casualty once intubated in the absence of a medical facility/ventilator?

Ammonia inhalants. How quaint.

4 different sizes of gauze pads

Cinch tight bandage, H&H bandage, Israeli dressing, how many different combat bandages do you need?

Meds: I have never prescribed 8mg dilaudid tablets to anyone. Ever.

MS contin is horribly dangerous in untrained hands.

Way too little non-narcotic pain control in the way of tylenol and motrin.

Why have Cipro and Levaquin? Levaquin dose too low to treat pneumonia.

Throat lozenges?

Why have a sphygmomanometer if you have no means to treat altered blood pressure?

ENT kit, without the knowledge of how to examine eyes or treat any condition you find. Ditto for ears. I don't see any cortisporin or alligator forceps.

What is with all the Vionex wipes in every compartment?

IFAK. So we've got yet another tourniquet, combat dressing, gauze, etc. Straight from the Department of Redundancy Department.

More ET tube stylets than ET tubes

Oxygen masks. Without oxygen.

Hextend. Mighty pricy.

OB kit is unnecessary with all the other stuff in this kit, with the only exception of the cord clamps and bulb suction.

3 different types of combat tourniquet

Wait, look, MORE SCISSORS.

ALL different sizes of Bandaids

No means to purify water.

No means to make fire.

Way too little in the way of antibiotics. He has one 7 day course of Cipro and 2 7 day courses of Levaquin.

You need one set of scissors and a knife.

Not much in the way of light.

Bottom line: too much weight and cube and money wasted on snivel care, with very little thought to sustainable medical care in the absence of available resources in TEOTWAWKI scenario. This bag is a soup sandwich and a monster waste.

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Lol dont forget he had some floss in there, mabey he wants to be a dentist as well, when he is all done with whoever, he is gonna help their teeth too. I can understand have a few basic things but come on that is a bit much.

I need a good time by Alan Jackson

my 21st b-day lol

How old were you when you decided you did or did not want kids

Isn't it for every job?

Congrats on losing a job. :wink: Been there, done that. Keep up the good work.

Thanks I think, Well I think every job you have to kiss a little ass, however there is just some things that are unexceptable plain and simple. I can be nice if I have to be no prob but I am not gonna be 2 faced just to get ahead or lie or blah blah blah. I am sure everyone can understand that.

Just wondering is it madatory to kiss ass in this feild, just getting ready to start and I have a lost a job due to not kissing ass lol

This is a pretty big concern for me as well. My oldest son will be 13 next month and a 10 year old. . I don't worry so much that they are doing anything at the moment, however their father that they go and visit on the weekends has the medical marijuana card. what he does when our kids are not around is what ever he is not my responsibility, our kids are.. I have asked the kids about it they say oh its just his medicine. When confronting their dad oh its just my medicine, they know what it is and that they are not to do it yada yada yada. I do not think that is a good example I understand they need to be educated on the subject, and they are but I don't think they need to be exposed to it. He says I am over reacting. any thoughts on this.

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How old were you when you first realized you wanted to help people?

It was this couples anniversary, The wife told her husband that she wanted something in the driveway that went from 0 to 200 in 6 seconds. Before he left for work the next day. Early the next morning the wife heard her husband getting ready to leave for work and she was looking out her bedroom window when she saw her husband get out of the car and put a box in the drive way. The wife was very curious as to what it was so she went out there grabbed the box and went back in the house. She sat on the couch opened it up and what did she find?

A scale.

Hmmm. I like guns and when I lived in az I used to carry for the job I had back then. I still enjoy going out and shooting. My husband is in the army and he has taught me a lot about self defense. I can take care of myself in most situations. I think in this day and age vests are a very wise Idea. I just graduated my emt-b class and to think of half those people with a weapon bad bad idea. Leave the guns to the leos, but there is no reason why emt and medics cant wear vests or take self defense classes, maybe even pepper spray but even with that you would need to be careful and trained. Don't wanna spray a room full of asthmatics. Just my take on this.

Howdy My name is Cheryl. I just finished my EMT-B class a couple of weeks ago. Hoping to take the NREMT soon. My husband is in the army and we will be leaving cali soon. I would like to eventually join the fire academy then medic school. Only time will tell. I look forward to spending time on this site and meeting new people.