PortabilityĪ personal first aid kit needs to fit in a pocket comfortably and easily pass through a TSA screening checkpoint. The three attributes I look for in an individual first aid kit are: 1. I do recommend you have a small, stocked personal first aid kit on you at all times to meet the needs you are most likely to encounter. While it’s advisable to keep a more extensive kit or bail-out bag in your vehicle, our vehicles aren’t always easily accessible when the need arises.
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I am in no way advocating you carry a full trauma kit strapped to your back everywhere you go. On- or off-duty EMS personnel need to be on the lookout for hazards and ready to operate in the warm zone The best personal first aid kit is the one with you.
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Most self-care is for minor injuries and most requests from friends and family for first aid are for strains, sprains, bruises, cuts and scrapes.Ĭhase Jarvis, a professional photographer and iPhone photography expert, wrote " The Best Camera Is the One That's With You." I agree and this point of view happens to apply both to photography and first aid kits. The same is true during the course of our everyday, even our off-duty days. You are also much more likely to distribute over-the-counter pain relievers, Band-Aids and ice packs than you are to use a fistful of tourniquets. If you have ever worked at a mass gathering sporting event or music festival, you know you are much more likely to treat aches and minor wounds than major trauma. Trauma calls are just a small portion of the call volume. In many 911 systems, the majority of call types are medical. Dan’s sensible recommendations on situational awareness and safety precautions are, however, likely more practical takeaways. Regardless, should you want to be prepared for that unlikely event, carrying an off-duty bailout bag with chest seals and hemostatic dressings - as explained by EMS1 columnist Dan Limmer - is fine advice.
Despite the tragic rise in active shooter incidents in the United States to 20 or more incidents per year, the majority of us will not respond to one as an EMS professional or experience one as a bystander.
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