Thread: Medical Incident - Some learnings for your first aid kit.

Originally Posted by Tussock

@hotbarrels did some stuff to take note of. Most first aid kits, espacially compact ones are pretty useless. You need to worry about three main issues with a hunting/field first aid kit. Stopping bleeding and stabilizing broken stuff. The white leucoplast strapping tape is very good and will also deal to blisters. When the back of your boot goes, it can be dangerous if you lose a real chunk of your heel. This happened to me and one strip of that tape lasted 3 weeks. It will also hold a knee or ankle sprain solid as plaster and is useful with bandages on wounds.

I will see if I can get a friend of mine to join here. She is the absolute maestro of first aid, because she is an ambulance officer in Johannesburg. She has seen everything squared.

@Tussock If she does not want to join up, how about let her make a response post for this under your name anyway. She can always sign on / off so that we know it is not you for that post. With her experience, it sounds like her insights could be very helpful.