Video: Make Your Own Wound Packing Trainer On The Cheap! | Medical Series
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georgel
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He keeps saying field expedient. To me field expedient means improvised on the fly with available resources as a quick and temporary solution. To me this more of a DIY project to save money.
Semantics aside, I like it. When I did TCCC they used a broomstick in a block of foam, fully wrapped in duck tape. Putting the whole assembly inside an old jeans leg might be interesting.
We were using training packs of Quikclot Combat Gauze. But, they were cheap enough to only issue one pack per team of two.
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The trainer I took Tac Med with had both the real training aid and a bunch of pool noodle sections with a hole cut in the side with a knife. Practice on the super cheap pool noodles while waiting for your turn to use the real training aid.
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Another training tip/trick.
Get your local butcher to give you meat that is out of date that they are throwing away. If it's not free, it's stupid cheap. Gash it, shoot it, stab it, fix it.
To practice chest decompression, get a rack of ribs, a bicycle tube, and cellophane. Inflate the tube, put it under the ribs, and wrap with cellophane. Then you can count the ribs and needle the 'chest', get the air escape (a la tension pneumo). Tape the hole, reinflate, do it again.
When I teach the local butcher would usually give me expired ribs and meat for these.
Get your local butcher to give you meat that is out of date that they are throwing away. If it's not free, it's stupid cheap. Gash it, shoot it, stab it, fix it.
To practice chest decompression, get a rack of ribs, a bicycle tube, and cellophane. Inflate the tube, put it under the ribs, and wrap with cellophane. Then you can count the ribs and needle the 'chest', get the air escape (a la tension pneumo). Tape the hole, reinflate, do it again.
When I teach the local butcher would usually give me expired ribs and meat for these.
Considering how important chest decompressions are to do right the first time, this is a genuinely great idea!
I made some for our Tac Team training with a 5" 4' section of PVC pipe with caps. Wrapped the two ends about 1 1/2 feet from the ends with carpet padding (about 4" thick). Took about three rolls of duct tape and then wrapped the outsides. So it looked like those fighting sticks that look like q tips. You could cut down into them very deeply to pack the wound, and even use a TQ, since they were the rough size of a mans leg. when you were done, duct tape the hole and its like new. Cut again , rinse and repeat. If you needed a "station" like two teams competing, you could ratchet strap it to a picnic table or something.