McNadoMDJan 24

If you are going to a protest where shit may get real, here’s (part) of my med kit I carry to these:
1. Nitrile gloves
2. NAR CAT tourniquets
3. Roller gauze and/or wound packing
4. Chest seals
5. Blister treatments (molefoam, cloth tape)
6. Clean water in a bike squeeze bottle (for eye irrigation)
7. Trauma shears
8. Surgical masks
9. Safety glasses
10. Snacks
11. Tampons and pads
12. P-100 respirator with vapor cartridges
13. Shop towels

I also carry a helmet.

Show threadMcNadoMDJan 24

If someone is shot in front of you, first of all, seek cover. If it is safe to render aid, your first order of business is hemorrhage control. Bleeding extremity? Tourniquet now, re-asses later. Extremity wound you can’t tourniquet? Wound packing. Chest, abdomen,or neck wound? Chest seal/occlusive dressing.

The key to combat medicine is speed. Act decisively, then get the casualty out of the hot/warm zone and to somewhere you can re-assess them.

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If you want to be able to help people with asthma/reactive airway conditions who can’t breathe after tear gas, Primatene Mist inhalers are available over-the-counter and are better than nothing.

If you want to stop extremity hemorrhage, read up on CAT tourniquet use, get some, and practice with them a bit (don’t tighten the windlass, or they won’t work as well next time).

If you want to get irritant agents off of skin/eyes, use plain tap water, lots of it. Do NOT add anything to it.

Show threadSheldonJan 24
@mcnado if Primatene Mist inhalers are useful, how good are expired albuterol inhalers? Any difference if they're the aerosol form or powder form?
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@sysop408 if they still have propellant and deliver drug, probably pretty good. There are differences is where in the airway the drug lands depending on the method of delivery. What is good/recommended, and what is possible in a pinch are not always the same for sure.
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Show threadSheldonJan 24

@mcnado OK, so from what you said, I'd presume that the aerosol spray would probably be more effective? The powder inhalers seem to have less propellant.

Of course I see that there's the powder delivery inhalers require someone to draw breath upon them to trigger the delivery so the person would have to be coordinated enough to use it.

Thanks! This is good to know. I'm sure everyone else like me who has inhalers also has a bunch of old inhalers that they haven't discarded yet.