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Originally Posted by akulahawk
Have a good selection of non-stick and gauze pads. My recommendation is to use the non-stick immediately next to a wound. Gauze pads on top if you need to absorb more blood. When it comes time to remove all that stuff, you don't want threads from the gauze to be stuck in the wound. You do NOT want those picked out of the wound. It really hurts...
There is a lot in the first aid kits that you buy in a store that you really do not need. I much prefer to build my own.
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Galls sells a gunshot trauma pack that is really slick... gloves,scissors, gauze pads, pressure bandage, sealing bandage thingee to seal a sucking chest wound and some quick-clot. It fits in a bdu pocket. We keep it in the range box with the staplers and tape etc...
I am mostly interested in stopping the bleeding and moving to a real doc!
About 6 months or so ago, one of the guys at the range was shooting his 50 bmg single shot.. the kind that has a cannon breach, the recoil pad is part of the breach... he was shooting handloads and the gun came apart in his hands... the breach went through his shoulder and impacted his corvette 20 yards behind him, severing the Brachial artery (geez it think it was the brachial).. there were two trauma nurses on the range and they took turns pinching off the brachial artery and saved the guys life... the chopper took him out and they re-attached all of the broken bits... he was also like diabetic or something and was hopitalized for weeks... 5-6 months later he was back at the range... scary stuff...
I had a client have a heart attack on the range once... flew him out too... also scary stuff....