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16/07/2026

The chances are, you’ll have more than 1 injury, patient, and need backups for gear failure…

It’s true that you can improvise for some treatments but time is blood and blood is life.

Exceptional training and redundancy in gear is essential

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13/06/2026

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Your first aid kit tape is failing you.
Ditch the subpar material tape. Replace it with heavy duty 3M. Wider, stickier, makes bandages that actually stay, wraps ankles, and repairs gear. Gorilla or marine grade tape adds waterproofing and doubles as a fire starter. Athletic tape supports unstable joints.
Throw away the Band-Aids. Sterile gauze cut to size with good tape lasts multiple days. Unless your daughter really likes the unicorn ones.
Ditch the alcohol swabs and hydrogen peroxide. They kill bacteria but also destroy healthy skin cells and slow healing. For dirty wounds, swamps, brackish water, f***s exposure, carry Betadine or chlorhexidine instead. Dilute for pressure washing.
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13/06/2026

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The bleeding control section in this first aid kit will straight up get you killed, in case of emergency.
Upgrade your trauma shears first. I use X Shears. The kit tweezers are useless for splinters and tick removal. Go to the dollar store and get a fine-pointed pair. Add a dedicated tick removal device so you don't crush the head with tweezers.
Medications: keep the Tylenol, ibuprofen, aspirin, and allergy meds. Add aloe vera with lidocaine for burns, hydrocortisone cream, bacitracin, Vaseline, Imodium, and skin prep to help tape adhere.
The bleeding control in most kits is one padded gauze. That will not save your life. Add a tourniquet, packing gauze, hemostatic agent, pressure bandage, and an emergency blanket. Hypothermia makes bleeding worse.
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11/06/2026

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Most first aid kits are useless.

Cheaply made, stuffed with fluff, and not built for anything real. As an ER doctor with a daughter I take outdoors, I need gear that actually holds up.

Q-tips: keep them. Moleskin for blisters: keep it. Sterile dressings: keep and prefer them over Band-Aids. With the right tape you can cut one sheet into multiple bandages that last days, not hours.

Replace the ace bandage with a Slishman pressure wrap. Stretchier, reusable, works on neck, armpit, and groin bleeds, and doubles for sprains. Keep two.

Swap the 10ml syringe for a 50-60ml. Wound irrigation needs 100ml of clean water per centimeter of wound. The small one won't cut it.

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03/06/2026

One kit covers every massive bleed.

Tourniquet stops arms and legs. Hemostatic gauze stops the neck, armpit, and groin. Pressure dressings handle everything that doesn't need a tourniquet. Slish band works on infants, pets, and small children too.

Redundancies in your purse, car, and backpack. That's the difference between surviving a trauma and becoming a statistic.

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15/05/2026

Your tourniquet could still cost you an arm or a leg.

Hours without help is not a hypothetical. Roads washed out in hurricanes. Families trapped in California wildfires. Help delayed by hours.

The tourniquet on the whole time... Your instinct will be to loosen it and give the limb a break. DO NOT! It sends toxins straight to your heart and organs.

If you need to convert, you only get one shot. You cannot be in hemorrhagic shock. You need the right supplies, a safe location, and a way to monitor the wound constantly. Amputations and arterial bleeds are a hard no.

Pack the wound with hemostatic gauze. Apply a pressure bandage. Add pressure directly over the wound. Then and only then slowly loosen the tourniquet.

If there's any bleeding through the bandage, the tourniquet goes back on (and stays on)
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10/05/2026

Fingers in the wound? That's not dramatic. That's the move.
You have minutes before blood loss drops you unconscious. A palm, a finger directly in the hole, whatever creates pressure buys you time to think and gather materials.
Once you have a moment, look around. Bandana, t-shirt, anything that fits and can be packed in. Sterile doesn't matter right now. Pressure does.
And no, you won't kill them by pushing air in. Arteries push blood out. You'd need over 50ml of air to cause an embolism. That's not happening with your fingers.
Pack it. Press it. Hold it.
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09/05/2026

If you're not pressing hard enough, they're still bleeding out.
Massive bleeds don't stop on their own. If direct pressure isn't working after a few minutes of full body weight, that's a massive bleed. If it's squirting, that's arterial. If there's an amputation, that's a massive bleed. All of these will drop someone unconscious within minutes.
Direct pressure is step one. When that fails you escalate. Tourniquet for limbs. Hemostatic wound packing with a pressure dressing for the neck, armpit, and groin.
Know the difference. Know what comes next.
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08/05/2026

Can a belt really save your life?

Massive bleeding is one of the most preventable causes of death in trauma.
In light of the recent Colorado school shooting and the tragedy involving Charlie Kirk being shot, it’s clear how urgent “stop the bleed” and bleeding control are.

Belts may slow bleeding, but without a proper windlass they won’t stop arterial flow.
If you need to improvise, use a wide material, a strong windlass you can twist, and make sure it’s tight enough to stop both the bleed and the pulse before you secure it.

07/05/2026

Unfortunately, mass shootings are no longer rare events.

They can happen anywhere and they can happen when you are not there to protect the people you love.

The only way to give them a fighting chance is to teach them what to do ahead of time.

Know where exits and real cover are, like thick concrete, large trees, or engine blocks.

Once shots are fired, you should quickly know the direction they are coming from.

In open areas, move unpredictably and change direction often while moving between cover. In enclosed spaces, run if you can, lock and barricade if you cannot, and be ready to fight if there is no other option.

You also need the tools and skills to treat life threatening injuries because law enforcement may take time to clear the area.

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