New bleeding control kits!

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ParamedicPrepper
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New bleeding control kits!

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Probably cheapest I have seen for what you get! Will probably sell like hot cakes with the terrorist threat level and recent events


http://medtree.co.uk/act-pak-personal-a ... b-36020521
Yorkshire Andy
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Re: New bleeding control kits!

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Is that the steroplast dressing?

http://evaq8.co.uk/Trauma-Dressing-Vacu ... oCMVHw_wcB



Quiet like the olaes pack just a shame they don't trim the package better like the Israel dressings :


https://m.spservices.co.uk/item/Brand_O ... 896_1.html


But looks a nice compact kit



See the advanced kit contains chest seals. Recent first aid refresher told us not to use occlusive dressings on chest wounds?
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Deeps
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Re: New bleeding control kits!

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Yorkshire Andy wrote:Is that the steroplast dressing?

http://evaq8.co.uk/Trauma-Dressing-Vacu ... oCMVHw_wcB



Quiet like the olaes pack just a shame they don't trim the package better like the Israel dressings :


https://m.spservices.co.uk/item/Brand_O ... 896_1.html


But looks a nice compact kit



See the advanced kit contains chest seals. Recent first aid refresher told us not to use occlusive dressings on chest wounds?
It seems to have come on leaps and bounds since I last did a first aid course. :o I did a couple of fairly 'hefty' ones back in the day but all the tourniquet/chest wound stuff was for the 'grown ups'. If someone is pissing pints from a hoofing big chest wound on 'my watch' then they'll be brown bread, I have field dressing but that's pretty much my limit. I suppose I could sit on them, that would be a fair amount of direct pressure, there might be a downside right enough.

I've always found it fascinating how first aid training keeps changing, even down to the number of chest compressions to breaths has changed over the years. Its such an important subject too. Definitely something that should be covered at school and funded free for adults to keep in date.
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Re: New bleeding control kits!

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I think the Olaes are the best. We use olaes and blast dressings in the dark brown wrapper both by Prometheus. The MET police use Israelis and they seem to do the trick but the Olaes feel that bit more robust! There's many cheaper options I have come across that probably work just as well if not better.

With the chest seals they don't actually seal the wound. They stop air entering the chest cavity in suspected pneumothorax. A pneumothorax is quite obvious in most penetrating chest trauma as there's a hole somewhere and in the early stages may be sucking air in as the patient breaths in. The seals prevent air going in and causing a tension pneumothorax to develop. The way I see it is if there's a whole in the chest that isn't pissing blood bosh a seal over it. If there's a hole pissing blood pack it, pack it again, stick your finger in it, your fist in it and a dressing on it but if it's pissing it ain't going to stop until that surgeon gets involved. Just slow it down a bit and buy some time.

Limbs are easier to manage with dressings, direct pressure, indirect pressure and if needs be a tourniquet