Used 3x triangle bandages on a smashed collar bonejansman wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 6:06 pm Kit is good, and necessary. First aid training is better though. Accepted wisdom, such as triangular bandages are old news for instance. If someone has a broken arm, or sprain, the last thing you do is hoist their arm in a sling! Many first aid kits fail to adapt to modern training and thinking.
one to support the arm the other two to tie the arm in he was a big chap and the ambulance would have been 4 hours minimum ... they (triangle bandages) have their uses on occasions likewise one triangle bandage and a butter knife / spanner / screwdriver/ metal pen = DIY Tourniquet not my favourite bit of kit but it does have a place likewise a mangled hand = elevated sling to keep injury above the heart to save having the casualty hold it themselves
And it's often even if they are able to self support provides some Mental triggers that they are being looked providing you slide it In carefully and it takes no weight was a standing joke at one time locally that you visit our local minor injuries unit you come out with a sling regardless of what hurt they must have had a shipping container full of them to use up
There's a lot to be said for covering a wound to prevent the casualty staring at it regardless if it actually needs dressing to control bleeding etc and an added distraction I've often called upon the services of a young lady from the works office who is also a first aider she can do more good than me providing the typical blokes level of support care and sympathy seems to help people in shock perhaps the question how you going to unlock your phone now wasn't the best approach as I bandaged up a badly cut finger as the colour drained away