My new pack.

[zraver]

Got my new CCAT pack in today. Will make access to the medical supplies much easier than the large hiking pack I was using.

Stethoscope
BP cuff
Pulse-ox meter
Glucometer w/ 25 lancets and 25 test strips
Digital thermometer
EMT sheers
3x hemostats
2x tweezers
1x reflext hammer
1x surgical scissor
CAT Tourniquet
medical multi-tool (combo clothes cutters, O2 wrench, bite stick)
Penlight
Black sharpy
Red sharpy
Blue ink pen
Flashlight/traffic light
Eye protection
5x small red biohazard bag
1x portable sharps container
2x sterile empty syringe
3x safety razor
2x eyewash syringe (pre-filled/ sterile)
1x box latex free gloves (non-sterile)
5x surgical mask
2x emergency blanket
1x red cross blanket
1x roll duct tape
1x pack moleskin
16x 4x4 gauze pad
4x 5x9 AB pad
24x 2x2 guaze pad
2x ace bandage
4x compressed gauze rolls
3x military trauma dressing
Assorted bandaids
4x eye patches
12x butterfly strips
3x rolls koban
4x rolls medical tape (2x cloth 2x plastic)
2x wound clot
3x sam splint
CPR mask
Airway kit (3x adult oralpharyyngeal 1x adult nasopharyngeal)
Suture kit
OB-kit
Bite kit
Assorted tongue depressors (bare wood and sterile)
Hand sanitizer
Waterless hand wash
Handi-wipes
Aspirator
Benadryl
Ibuprofen
Acetaminophen
Dramamine
Small dose chewable aspirin
Antacid
Hydrocortizone cream
6x burn cream
12x single use antibiotic ointment
12x stinging insect wipes
24x sanitary wipes
24x alcohol prep-pads
1x bottle of iodine
2x bottles saline wound wash
1x can DEET
1x SPF-50 sunscreen
1x rescue inhaler
1x cravat
1x arm sling
1x MRE heater meal
3x individual Pedialyte powder
1x roll saran wrap
1x roll toilet paper
1x travel pack of Kleenex
1x instant ice pack
2x instant hot pack
Assorted plastic baggies
Small box of 100 Q-tips
1x super glue
1x Bic lighter
1x emergency strobe (white)
1x emergency strobe (red)
1x handy rescue Tool
1x roll orange tape
1x hydration bladder
1x multi-tool
1x shake light
3x glow stick
4x small brown paper bag
2x 60cc suction syringe with tubing
2x adult c-collar
3x tampons



Wish List

AED
ambu bag w/ adult/ped/infant masks
Activated charcoal
Epipens (adult and jr)
Pediatric airway kit
Narcon

[Doktor]

Tell me this is on top of your 'doomsday list of necessities' you have posted sometime last year IIRC.

[zraver]

Tell me this is on top of your 'doomsday list of necessities' you have posted sometime last year IIRC.

I've been expanding have started building a mirror image kit using the old hiking pack that will be stored in the team trailer in case I cannot deploy with the team. I am also writing for an AED grant (fingers crossed). Also if I understood the ambulance inspector right, Arkansas is adopting national laws regarding EMT-B's which will provide me another route to get my hands on epi-pens. I hope to find a way to fit in emt training as I also pursue my masters....

[Doktor]

I wont cross my fingers, you only have my faith. You have shown will and determination in many aspects before, that I am totally positive you can and will make it.

Just not sure how it is regulated in your state as well as in USA in general. Over here, you'd need a full 4 year school for nurses.

[zraver]

We have different levels of nursing, but I am not interested in a nursing path. EMT overhear is a separate field that starts with certified first responder, then emergency medical technicians, then paramedic. I want to be an EMT-W eventually for use in disasters.

[bonehead]

You may want to look into a Wilderness first responder. Takes less than a week in most cases and you will learn a whole lot of ways to take care of a patient when they can't get to a hospital right away.

[zraver]

Already have the manual used for WFR by the national ski patrol. Sadly, no one around here offers the course for certification so I need to go the EMT-W route.

[bonehead]

I got mine via a deal with my college and NOLS years ago. Most of us in the program were already 80-90% trained as a WFR so we were able to take a fast paced, short and intense seminar. Hands on and tons of inside info from those who have decades of experience in SAR, back country first aid, and ski patrol. They teach you how to make due when you don't have access to all the fancy first aid items.
What no wilderness areas in Arkansas? What a shame.

[chanjyj]

I used to carry this around (scope+BP cuff is missing in the picture) but have since stopped.

[zraver]

I got mine via a deal with my college and NOLS years ago. Most of us in the program were already 80-90% trained as a WFR so we were able to take a fast paced, short and intense seminar. Hands on and tons of inside info from those who have decades of experience in SAR, back country first aid, and ski patrol. They teach you how to make due when you don't have access to all the fancy first aid items.
What no wilderness areas in Arkansas? What a shame.

plenty of rural, no real wilderness but the Ozarks. the people there who want it bring in people people from outside the state or hold rare classes on it. I meant nothign local to me that I can reasonably expect to get to. Same with sartech training.

[ambidex]

CPR mask with ambu bag/valve bag ?

Airway kit includes Laryngoscope, endo tracheal tubes ?

Anything to secure Intravenous line for circulation, saline ?

[zraver]

CPR mask with ambu bag/valve bag ?

Airway kit includes Laryngoscope, endo tracheal tubes ?

Anything to secure Intravenous line for circulation, saline ?

No ambu bags yet, coming soon. Airway kit I have right not is oral and nose tubes. need pediatric and infant.

Nothing to run IV's, no one on my team but the nurses is allowed to do that.

[chanjyj]

zraver, what are you working as? Caveat: I'm not familiar with the American paramedic/nurse scene and delineation of medical authority.

[zraver]

zraver, what are you working as? Caveat: I'm not familiar with the American paramedic/nurse scene and delineation of medical authority.

I am a masters student at the moment. A member of two different groups. Yankee 1 a volunteer SAR/disaster relief team and the Faulkner County Rescue Squad.

[Gun Grape]

Z
I think the question was more in regards to what type of medical certifications you hold.

I sort of wondered myself. There are a few things in your jump bag that, at least in my state require, at a min, EMT certification to use. And more that a few that are paramedic and above.