Comments on: Does Your Bug-out Bag Have a CCW Inside?

By: rm911medic

rm911medic — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:24:14 +0000

Dump the quickclot. I have used it in combat and it is worthless. The amount of irrigation needed to get it out of the wound to clean afterwards usually opens the clots back up. Pressure points and tourniquets are a much better bet. If you need to stop bleeding quickly, you can apply a tourniquet for a short time (less than two hours) and then release it slowly using direct pressure, pressure points and elevation. Once bleeding is stopped, or controlled, you can use electrocautery tools to further control bleeding lidociane with and without epinephrine can also help, but DO NOT USE lido with epi on smaller body parts, i.e. fingers, nose, toes, ears as you can cause death of tissue below the injection site. If a person is shot in the core of the body and doesn’t get to a hospital quickly, no amount of quickclot is going to help anyway.

By: JJSwiontek

JJSwiontek — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:49:13 +0000

Most of the above plus… Portable water filter; tampons, fem. napkins, and Quikclot for gunshot wounds; pain-block and anti-biotic meds; stethoscope and BP cuff; field surgery kit.

By: blueeyeddragon76

blueeyeddragon76 — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:26:01 +0000

Don’t have a picture at the moment. But my kit has my back up ccw…a med kit, fishing line and hooks,change of clothes, waterproof matches, poncho, space blanket, iodine tabs, 550 paracord ,flashlight, knife,spare ammo and magazines and a few other “goodies”!