Pictured to the left is a very complete emergency trauma kit. It is great and recommended. But in this post, I wanted to look at a simpler emergency trauma kit, I put together a while ago, for wound care, with the idea of getting yourself prepared and what to be prepared for… In this case – a major trauma injury involving blood loss. Remember, it is better to be prepared for something and not need it; than it is to need it and not be prepared.

This is a emergency kit that you might keep at a cabin, at a workshop, and at home, of course.

The first thing to note is that this is not a simple first aid kit. If I need a band aid because I have cut myself, I’m going to go into the house and get a band aid. This trauma kit is for more serious injuries, where somebody is going to end up at the emergency room or the hospital.

I recommend using a standard basic medical pouch. This type of pouch was important to me because I didn’t want the kind that had the zippers which would take two hands to open it up. Nor did I want a metal case sitting in the workshop getting all rusty, dented up and falling on the ground. What I wanted was something that I could open with one hand and a basic medical pouch was the answer.

First thing to include is a blood type patch that is velcroed to the inside of the pouch. This is just in case medical personnel has to come to the house or wherever you are storing this kit. They may need to know my blood type or blood types for each child and your spouse, too. Recording that information, in a precise fashion, can save time and confusion.

Now, let’s look at the more concrete contents and go over them one at a time.

First, I have a six inch hemorrhage control bandage or an Israeli bandage as you may know it. Now I also have some sterile gauze pads. Couple of sizes here – two inches by two inches, four inch by four inch size and then a five inch by six inch size. Also included is a triangular bandage. This one is forty-two by forty-two by fifty-nine inches.

Then I have a a package of quick clot, twenty five grams. In case your not familiar with what this is, if you have every seen an old war movie where a soldier gets shot and then a field medic comes over, rips open a pack and pours some powder looking stuff onto the wound. That it is what quick clot is essentially. It is a substance that stops bleeding quickly. However, technology of delivery has improved and they have put it into a sponge.

So what you would do is rip open this pack. Apply the sponge directly to the wound and it helps your clotting process. One note on the quick clot by the way, these things do have an expiration date to them. So every couple of years, you’ll have to replace these with a fresh pack.

Next you will want to have a roll of sterile gauze, at least four yards worth. I would put this on the wound wrapping the guaze around to keep pressure applied.

You will need a pair of non latex gloves, some antiseptic wipes, a pair of scissors and/or knife and a small roll of duct tape. Now you might have duct tape stored elsewhere, but make sure to include some with your emergency medical kit. The whole idea of the trauma kit is to have everything that you need for wound care at hand without having to go to a secondary place.

The pouch you get may have side pockets and storage compartments. Somewhere in your trauma kit you will want to store a tourniquet. A tourniquet is a constricting or compressing device, specifically a bandage, used to control venous and arterial circulation to an extremity for a period of time. If you can’t stop the bleeding with a bandage – turn to a tourniquet.

Tourniquets have particular instructions that I won’t go into here, While you specifically want to stop the flow of blood, you still have to let the blood flow periodically. So once you apply a tourniquet – follow this medical device’s specific instructions and get to a hospital or other medical facility as soon as you can, within two hours if at all possible.

The tourniquet I have has a spot to write a time stamp for when it was applied to stop the bleeding. It also came with trauma and accident management instructions, which tells you how to apply the tourniquet and more.

While there maybe more you want to store in this emergency medical trauma kit – this one is geared towards injuries that including a lot of bleeding – that needs to be stopped in an emergency. So keep that in mind as you put it together.

Another important thing to keep in mind is where to store this kit. Keep it handy, but not somewhere it will get lost in a bunch of clutter over time. And store it low enough so that a child can get to it, easily. And finally, practice retrieving the kit and using it – saving time and knowing particular actions to take in an emergency can make a real difference.

Information provided is not medical advice – you should always consult your doctor.

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