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I mean not just basic medical,for those of you a ways off from a hospital, do you carry or keep a trauma kit nearby?
Do you know how and when to use it?

As a retired PH I always carried a trauma kit in the field, which was generally 90 days straight. In 2021 (after my neighbor got mauled to death and eaten in our backyard) I set about building a serious trauma kit. I lucked out and received a lot of badly needed help.

It ended up quite huge, I had to cull it into two "Step" kits. First step for serious wilderness trauma (hopefully to allow crawling to the plane or truck. Then a second step-up kit to enhance probability of making it 110 miles to hospital by road, or 300 miles by aircraft.

 

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Could you elaborate on some of the things you carry for wilderness trauma? i am still in the process of building a better kit for being in the wilderness and could use some insight. thanks for your response.

I don't know if this forum has problem with linking other forum threads, if so, please urgently delete. This is the thread that became the foundation of my "Trauma Kit" project.
Quick Clot.......gauze or the powder or "WHAT" | Homesteading & Country Living Forum (homesteadingforum.org)

Some place I have a list of everything, doubt I can find it. One thing I added is a lot of those things you break that supply light for a period of time.

 

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Here is another thread I started on a different forum, at the same time for help on building my kit. (I am 6.8SPC on that forum)
(1) Tourniquet for a save yourself solo hiker/hunter, suggestions requested. | Survivalist Forum (survivalistboards.com)

 

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We control hemmoraging by direct pressure or a tourniquet as taught in Boy Scouts and First Aid 101.

Yes, exactly as I was taught in the mid 1950's Boy Scouts. But most of that assumed you were rendering aid on another injured person. I build my kit assuming only me fixing myself, and as much as possible, assumed my dominant hand/arm was included in damaged parts.

For where and how I live a PLB was/is of equal importance to the trauma kit.

 

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Having all sorts of great first aid equipment is wonderful. How many of you really now how to use it, without harming the patient?

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

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

 

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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

Please note I said, "In my ENVIROMENT".