[AndyFrank]

I have no idea how to use any of it. I'll just do my best. I my environment there are only two choices, watch them die, or make every effort to postpone that.

Most of that stuff comes with instructions......

Oh christamighty you should be learning and practicing all that already, not waiting until you need it. Its bad enough thinking about the horrors I wont see in reclusion when all these monkeys start medically mauling and killing their patient. It occurred to me that at least most won't even know they did, since they were doing stuff without comprehension anyway.
People need more respect for life and the actual ability to listen to it, not just attack and brutalize them. That takes dedication and time to develop.
I wasn't doing too bad until it came down too "Got a lot of cool stuff! With instructions" at least even those dash offs could actually save a person if the rescuer isn't a total first timer.
LEARN - specifically.
You can fk people up sewing wrong or applying teks you see in a book, where drs wouldn't.
You can easily finish an urgent or emergency person off just mishandling them.
Its not like keeping a fish tank or changing a distributor on a car.
And best wishes? That above all besides LEARN

 

[AndyFrank]

I told my depression survivor (in style) grandmother that I would have a pharmacy to trade for what I didn't grow and do ok.
She said "Oh everybody that took pills died?" and she meant the addicts just as much.
But? I suppose when its war i will do war and when it quiets down, i will trade.
I already know they are going to launch a puke-n-sht on people that will be resistant and that even we are going to stay far from.

 

[AndyFrank]

"that is the real question to pose,

When I say I don’t recommend almost anyone carry NCD’s or NPA’s in their IFAK’s is because I do not want some guy who took a basic red cross first aid class 4 years ago sticking me with a chest dart. I also don’t want some random inserting my NPA incorrectly either. Because items on an IFAK are what I’m supposed to be using on myself, I don’t carry those items on my IFAK and used the save space for extra hemorrhage control, extra TQ, something along those lines."

Are you accomplishing something with all the letter abbreviations? Did you just recently become a paramedic? Its like you are speaking lingo for new emts or something?

 

[AndyFrank]

no friend, i use the abbreviations because i have fingers like microwaved hotdogs and it gets old typing it over and over again, so the abbreviations help with saving myself time and if i type it my phone with automatically capitalize it.

if you can’t understand those abbreviations, and are seriously prepping, I would recommend getting some training on medical care. i apologize if any of the information came off confusing

as stated above,
IFAK - individual first aid kit, for 1 person, being yourself.
TQ - Tourniquet, cuts blood circulation to a limb, also cutting off blood flow to an injury.
NPA- Nasopharyngeal Airway, opens the airway inserted in through the nose
NCD - Chest decompression needle. inserted into the rib cage to prevent tension pneumothorax

Im a physician, in medicine 40 years. I have comprehension and i think thats it. Certificate people demonstrate knowledge by mnemonics and slogans, it helps them remember their ABC's - it just seemed like a conversation between paramedics more than educating and if it is a bunch of noobs you address, maybe a jargon class first, like certificate people get, would be a better place to start?
Those letter ditties, like protocols, change constantly and most people just say "airway" or "first aid kit" unless they are "current on jargon".
Jargon is how we confuse and impress, so they need to be "insiders" first is all.