Article: Lifesaving Skills Every Gun Owner Should Know

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Lifesaving Skills Every Gun Owner Should Know

Ask anyone who carries an IFAK and a gun every day what they use more often -- the IFAK always wins. What other skills do you need? Find out.

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[Sneakymedic]

good article. We have one of the orange pelican cases from Harbor freight in the gun shop with a CAT TK and two Olaes Bandages and gloves in it for rapid deployment. My personal gear has more advanced stuff I'm trained to use, but not the general responder. But the basics save lives in the first few minutes.

 

[Ponzerite]

Good read there, I'm bookmarking it. Thanks

 

[Hoss]

Thanks For posting that is a good read.

 

[Tim]

Good stuff.

I never connected the patient’s warmth to clotting effectiveness.

 

[Chuckman]

Good stuff.

I never connected the patient’s warmth to clotting effectiveness.

There is this phenomenon that has historically been called "the trauma triad of death", coagulopathy, hypothermia, acidosis. There's actually a fourth component they're adding to new textbooks, hypocalcemia. They are all interrelated.

A cold trauma patient will die just as fast from being cold and the complications I just mentioned as they will from bleeding to death.

 

[Chuckman]

That was a good article, and just a couple thoughts.

Quick clot and hemostatic dressings have no advantage over traditional dressings and bandaging with clotting outcomes and patient outcomes. So a lot of places are getting rid of them because their cost prohibitive.

CPR. Everyone should learn it. CPR and early defibrillation saves lives. But CPR and trauma is a whole different animal. If someone is in cardiac arrest from blunt trauma, the chance of resuscitation is about 0%. If someone is in cardiac arrest from penetrating trauma, it's about 1-3%, depending on the study you read (and is dependent on link the time from trauma, and length of time to the hospital).

 

[johnnyvw]

I've pretty much always gone to outdoor ranges solo, so early on I put together a trauma kit based on various articles I've read of what works for different injuries. Tourniquet is front and center on the pack in a seperate pouch that's red in color...hard to miss. It's been a while since I looked through the kit so I should probably take a few minutes to go through everything just to re-familiarize myself. My employer had various life-saving training brought in over the years, but I'm probably due for a refresher.
I may not be an expert on any life saving techniques, but at least I'm not ignoring it either

 

[rufrdr]

I 've always carried a couple GI field dressings in my range bag and my son recently gave me one of the tourniquets he is never without.

 

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