30 Things you should have in your Medical First Aid Kits
If your serious about survival you have to have a good Medical Kit.
A Good kit Should Include:
- Butterfly sutures.
- Floss or Fishing String – for emergency suture
- Sterile needles
- Gauze
- Antibiotic Ointments
- Antibiotics
- Surgical blades.
- Aspirin & Ibuprofen
- First Aid Guide
- Splints
- Tweezers
- Scissors
- Finger Nail Clipper
- ovidone-Iodine ampules
- surgical tape – 1 roll
- Adhesive dressing
- Disposable thermometers
- Disposable gloves
- Antihistamine cream
- 1 triangular bandage
- 100 assorted adhesive plasters
- 1 eye dressing
- small bottle sterile eyewash
- re hydration solution
- 1 tube sun block
- Insect repellent
- Codeine phosphate etc.
- 1 bottle alcohol
- 1 burn dressing (large)
- 1st aid manual
What do you have in your kit?
Simon on Sat, 20th Sep 2008 9:40 am
Duct Tape
Joe on Mon, 29th Sep 2008 9:39 am
Moleskin!!!
Pickdog on Thu, 23rd Oct 2008 11:33 am
Superglue is good for closing wounds.
JimShyWolf on Tue, 28th Oct 2008 12:48 pm
All the above plus: B-P cuff, stethoscope; splints (made of 1/4″ mesh wire w/duct-taped edges; Neosporin (anti-bacterial); face masks; airway rebreather tube kit; mouthguard (for M2M); rubberized chest apron; alcohol wipes; mercurochrome iodide; emergency blanket; only one EMT field guide; a few other ‘small’ items too numerous to mention.
Shy
vq5p9 on Fri, 25th Dec 2009 8:59 am
Antibiotics have a pretty short shelf life. I think I would skip those.