Yet another reason to keep a first aid kit

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I work part time at a hardware store, and the girl running the paint desk sliced open her middle finger, good and deep about an inch and a half long, she has small hands so were talking almost half the finger.
She starts pouring blood, and freaking out, the beta males that work around here start to do the same. I'm right there and see the commotion, I walk over and she is starting to show signs of shock already, pale, shaking, stuttering, and borderline hyperventilating. I tell her to go to the break room, thinking in my head I know what the store first aid kit had in it and it sucks. I grab mine out of my locker, glove up, clean it, dress it, and make sure she is good to go. As soon as she had someone else around her not freaking out she was fine but the added people not doing anything other then freaking out did not help.
This kit stays in my backpack so I'll resupply tonight but just shows you to always be prepared.
She'll be getting a lesson on how to use a box cutter later.
 
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I work part time at a hardware store, and the girl running the pain desk sliced open her middle finger, good and deep about an inch and a half long, she has small hands so were talking almost half the finger.
She starts pouring blood, and freaking out, the beta males that work around here start to do the same. I'm right there and see the commotion, I walk over and she is starting to show signs of shock already, pale, shaking, stuttering, and borderline hyperventilating. I tell her to go to the break room, thinking in my head I know what the store first aid kit had in it and it sucks. I grab mine out of my locker, glove up, clean it, dress it, and make sure she is good to go. As soon as she had someone else around her not freaking out she was fine but the added people not doing anything other then freaking out did not help.
This kit stays in my backpack so I'll resupply tonight but just shows you to always be prepared.
She'll be getting a lesson on how to use a box cutter later.

Well she does work at the "pain" desk!! I added some clot powder to my kit recently for this type of injury. Good to have a good kit around!
 
Good job, way to keep your head in the game.

BTW, she was having a panic attack over it, not really "shock".
I'm not an medic, the closest thing I have ever been to one was a hazmat technician and hazmat first responder, I had to have the certification for a place that I use to work for. Either way she was freaking out, and I can't tell the difference between the two at face level.
 
I'm not an medic, the closest thing I have ever been to one was a hazmat technician and hazmat first responder, I had to have the certification for a place that I use to work for. Either way she was freaking out, and I can't tell the difference between the two at face level.

Yep, you fixed the problem. You shouldn't need to differentiate between shock or any other thing, you fixed the problem.
 
Question for the first aid folks here. I like to keep a first aid kit on my work truck and in my Jeep, but in this hot weather, what's best to carry that won't break down in the heat? It gets upwards of 120 in the cab of my truck.
 
Way to step up and be an adult, Russell.
 
Question for the first aid folks here. I like to keep a first aid kit on my work truck and in my Jeep, but in this hot weather, what's best to carry that won't break down in the heat? It gets upwards of 120 in the cab of my truck.
The Vet wrap/co flex will melt together and be useless. 4x4 gauze works great….but after a few years of that heat it will brown. Still work, just look ugly. so anything cotton/gauze will be good fro a few years. rubber/plastic about 6 mos.
 
Sound like she needs one of the self-retracting box cutters. Probably the betas do too.
 
Retractable blade knife will stop deep cuts. We use them at Home Depot.

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Nice. The random minor to mild injuries like this are exactly why I built a few FAK kits last year and keep one in each vehicle plus my range bag and GHB.
 
I carry a small one in my SHTF Bag and a large one in the Jeep.
 
I work part time at a hardware store, and the girl running the paint desk sliced open her middle finger, good and deep about an inch and a half long, she has small hands so were talking almost half the finger.
She starts pouring blood, and freaking out, the beta males that work around here start to do the same. I'm right there and see the commotion, I walk over and she is starting to show signs of shock already, pale, shaking, stuttering, and borderline hyperventilating. I tell her to go to the break room, thinking in my head I know what the store first aid kit had in it and it sucks. I grab mine out of my locker, glove up, clean it, dress it, and make sure she is good to go. As soon as she had someone else around her not freaking out she was fine but the added people not doing anything other then freaking out did not help.
This kit stays in my backpack so I'll resupply tonight but just shows you to always be prepared.
She'll be getting a lesson on how to use a box cutter later.
Great work! I am surprised though, no one asked what you have in your kit or what you keep all your supplies in! Please share! ;)
 
Great work! I am surprised though, no one asked what you have in your kit or what you keep all your supplies in! Please share! ;)
Tweezers
Trama scissors
Gauze (mutiple types)
Medical tape
Small thing of rubbing alcohol
Hand sanitizer wipes
Neosporin/ antibiotic cream
Sharpie
Large bandaids
Tampons( for a nose bleed you sick bastards)
Small thing of duct tape
Super glue
Tourniquet
A few different pain Meds
Q tips
Chap stick
This is a fairly small kit for just real simple shit there is a larger on it my truck and jeep
Edit: most of these items in doubled and tripled up in the larger kits. I might only have one or two of some of the items in the smaller kit
 
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Only if the bleeding is between a woman's legs....

The tampon thing has been settled for a while.


So, a tampon wouldn't work like gauze in a pinch? I'm curious - first I've heard of this.
 
Great work! I am surprised though, no one asked what you have in your kit or what you keep all your supplies in! Please share! ;)

Combat gauze
Pouch of powdered quick clot
Israeli bandage
TQ
Curlex wrap
Gauze pad with Muslin wrap (old school dressing; can be used as a sling for broken arm or wound covering)
Narcan auto injector
Epi Pen
Nasopharyngeal airway
Chest seal
Tape
Scissors
Sharpie
Small boo boo kit with bandaids, small one time use alcohol pads, Neosporin etc
 
So, a tampon wouldn't work like gauze in a pinch? I'm curious - first I've heard of this.

No, actually less effective than standard gauze and can create more problems internally because of the length. There's been some pretty good literature on this.

When I have a moment I'll see if I can dig up an article or two and copy/paste.

Edited to add some articles. There are some legit research articles, I will need some time to find them.

https://havokjournal.com/fitness/me...n-is-useless-for-life-threatening-hemorrhage/

https://www.personaldefensenetwork.com/article/severe-bleeding-first-aid-misconceptions-tampons/

https://www.sierra12.com/s12-home/tampons-for-drama-not-trauma

https://www.usacarry.com/gunshot-wounds/
 
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Good work bud. I am convinced that the most important thing to do in a "crisis" is to keep your head about you. Panic helps nothing.
 
No, actually less effective than standard gauze and can create more problems internally because of the length. There's been some pretty good literature on this.

When I have a moment I'll see if I can dig up an article or two and copy/paste.

Edited to add some articles. There are some legit research articles, I will need some time to find them.

https://havokjournal.com/fitness/me...n-is-useless-for-life-threatening-hemorrhage/

https://www.personaldefensenetwork.com/article/severe-bleeding-first-aid-misconceptions-tampons/

https://www.sierra12.com/s12-home/tampons-for-drama-not-trauma

https://www.usacarry.com/gunshot-wounds/


Okay, that makes sense. I wasn't thinking of them for plugging gun shot wounds or something like that. I was thinking as improvised gauze over something like the OP's co-worker - a cut finger. Still, it was a new concept to me when someone posted about it. I hadn't heard/read the stories of supposed combat medicine with tampons. Thank you for the links.

Regardless, I have gauze in my first aid kits. I'll leave tampons to MacGyver episodes and what not.
 
Good work bud. I am convinced that the most important thing to do in a "crisis" is to keep your head about you. Panic helps nothing.

Awesome job. The ER's hate us using superglue, but I get it. :) I noticed superglue is in your kit.
 
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Awesome job. The ER's hate us using superglue, but I get it. :) I noticed superglue is in your kit.

What ED hates who for using super glue? If someone came into our emergency department with the laceration already glued, as long as it wasn't infected, good to go. We give them a prophylactic antibiotic and a tetanus update and send them on their way. Never bothered us.
 
What ED hates who for using super glue? If someone came into our emergency department with the laceration already glued, as long as it wasn't infected, good to go. We give them a prophylactic antibiotic and a tetanus update and send them on their way. Never bothered us.
I had a friend hit his head on a rock and get knocked out. It was a pretty knarley gash that we superglued closed. Get to the ER and they are losing it because we superglued it. Apparently we should have left it bleeding when we were an hour from the nearest hospital. This was in the Roanoke, VA area.
 
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