Gauze to provide a surface to help get clotting started faster. Not to suck blood out of the body. Pressure to Help the body to seal up the vascular system and stop external blood loss. Tourniquet when blood is spurting and you may have multiple bleed points. High and Tight is better than low and too late. Better to Go High and tight fast then loosen in 3-5 minutes once all bleeding is found and under control than waste time on one visible bleed and not find another worse one. Hope this helps folks focus on the overall situation when you are the first responder with gear been there done that with Paramedics on site and no gear due to being off duty. My gear their skills Equaled a save.
Recently subbed after finding your channel on my search for what to include in my trauma kit. This video is a clear indicator that I bought all the right things. Thanks skinny medic, keep up the good videos!
I looked at your website. Your videos are great and your products look like they are of high quality. I was wondering if you ever considered starting your own subscription service. I watch countless depressing unboxing videos for Battlebox. There are other boxes too, but I think they are mostly junk. I would love to have a medical supplies subscription box from you. Primarily because it will always be useful. It's medical supplies, and you can never have enough. They are consumables. Plus, I know you won't send me Chinese dollar store products, and I think it would be a great way to build a solid foundation of useful medical supplies over time. It would be a nice alternative to spending a couple hundred bucks in one shot. It would also help educate folks on the uses, and allow them to mix and match products into their own systems. Just a thought. I love your videos, and I love that you are building your business by providing education and quality products. Keep up the great work.
You could also follow up with your own unboxing videos, which review all of the products in the box...after they have been delivered, of course. I think most of us would find that service extremely valuable. The best gear is useless if you're clueless, right?. That would be another great reason for folks to subscribe to your boxes, and to your channel. You can sign me up as soon as you get it going. Haha. Have a great day. Keep up the good work man. This is so much more pertinent to survival than arguing about guns and knives. Although, I do like my knives, and I am still kind of a flashlight snob. Don't judge me. Everybody is flawed. We're all human.
sootch00-----Love your channels and highly enjoy all the informative content you put out!!! It's been great seeing other gun channels helping and supporting other channels. It needs to happen more often these days, since all the attacks are happening to gun channels. I believe I live close to you , and Ben from Classic Firearms. If y'all ever wanted to meet up, just email me. Would enjoy learning a lot from ya! Keep up the excellent work you do brother!! God bless y'all!!
This video gets a like simply because of the funny gesture when skinny medic picks his teeth and spits a bit a debris out at around the 09:38 mark. Love these videos
I hunt, and I practice with my pistol, and my AR-15. So I want to be able to do first aid at the range , and for that I need a proper kit. And a subscription to your channel
late to the discussion, with my kit I all ways carry a decompression needle. i'm not a current EMT[ was EMT for like 10 years]. However. a lot of accident ive come across, there has been a nurse,medic or doctor show up. they can use it if you have it. also. if your camping/hiking and someone falls, etc and breaks a rib, you are there ONLY Hope....on the down side. we have to take it out when we fly. most kits are allowed on flights. even your shears ;=] Remember. Help who you can. Mind blower. there also a term. Spontainious nemothorac [spellcheck]
instead of sutres i have a staple gun i picked up on a veterinary website for about 15 bux. its sterile and loaded with 35 staples. also came with a removal tool which i leave home. the staple gun is in the trauma bag that i keep in my truck. anyways, great vids. keep em comin
Hey SkinnyMedic! I feel really interested in your videos. They seem clear, concise, and at a level that a non-emergency professional like myself can understand. I work in finance for a large financial firm and have little to no experience in medical emergencies. I would like to become certified (perhaps through the American Red Cross) to be able to assist my fellow man in the event of an emergency and not just certification in CPR, but in severe bleeding, broken limbs, etc. Where would you recommend I start? Thanks!
Finaly found a real job start in a week when the roof is ready. The season over. Lol. Then collage nexy year. N i can finaly get my kit. Think it was like 700$. Might get my kit then stockpile later. Might just get it. Ahh what a year. Good videos. Grate job
They are recently starting to move away from the loose powder hemostatic agent as it gets washes out of the wound and its more difficult to keep in place.
Ive got all that minus actual chest seals, emergency blankets, celox powder, fancy combat gauze, casualty cards, and glow sticks for triage but i have occlusive dressings in place of chest seals and regular gauze instead. Ive also got berman oral airways and guedel oral airways to use along with them nose tubes. I guess Im doin pretty good :)
Love your channel and vids- excellent and informative! - I'm an EMR so I am not trained in nor do I carry a de-compression needle. However, I was wondering if a CPR mask is appropriate for a trauma kit?- Thanks!
Obviously, we're in an Extraordinary period. So, I can't help but think: Have you ever heard of the saying that it is Better to have it and not need it; than to need it, and not have it? So, giving that, now you have an idea why an ordinary person would want or have one. And keep in mind, that you were once an "Ordinary" person. And you learned from a Book. So why couldn't an ordinary person?
Patriotic Saint said the guy who is NOT a medic... learned from a book my ass, he learned from not getting paid while riding a ambulance and standing around a ER
From my understanding on one of his videos if you have like a through n through gunshot to chest you vent the front and seal the back. The Hyfin two packs are both vented. Seal off one or use the plastic wrapper and tape to seal the back.
How about SAM splints? Do they have any place in a trauma kit? Space permitting, I always try to incorporate one along with a cohesive wrap and triangular bandage.
Also always carry a cervical collar for the same reason. Nah I'm just yankin your chain it's your kit but I must advise against being excessive. If you have room for it pack it but you're not an ambulance you can make do in most emergencies with just a few simple items
I am a deer hunter, just now learning about basic "Stop the Bleed" and trauma medical care and setting up my very first IFAK. Someone told me I need to get an "Israeli Bandage" for my IFAK. However due to total cost, I ordered the "Premium Personal STOP THE BLEED Kit - Enhanced". It comes with a "4 in. Responder Flat Dressing". Is that a good enough pressure dressing for my IFAK or do I need to purchase an "Israeli Bandage"?
Please also include how you can screw things up. I wouldn't hesitate to use this stuff on me, but if I am being honest...this kind of stuff maoes me extremely uneasy and that needs to change, some how
I'm studying to be a future paramedic, I just have to say as a boy scout and camp counselor I must agree with your list. Many of the scouts I teach and adults I work with haven't the slightest clue what to carry. Perhaps someday I'll get I through their thick heads. Anyways I feel that you would love my kit. It's light, simple, and very good considering I have very small budget.
I have no training on how to use a decompression needle, would caring one in a trauma kit so I could give it to someone on site who has training be worth it?
No. The odds of you coming across someone who would need it, and then having someone around who has the training to use it, who isn't on the ambo, is extremely small. As someone who is trained to use them, if a bystander came up to me on scene and said "hey I have this needle.." I would probably not use it. Better to wait till the Ambo. got there where the patient can be effectively managed. Now if your big into back county hiking or something or live in the wilds of AK, it might be more useful just because of the distance to care, but I would suggest getting some training and going from their first before just getting a decomp. needle.
I'm glad that I carry all but a couple of things in my Trama Kit . I would suggest a pen light and a headlamp. If you can't see what you are doing, then all the medical precautions will be in vain
Skinny Love you vids !! i have an question...i wear drespants everyday because of my style lol and work lol...I carry a knife, flashlight and multitiool. no guns,i live in europe:(. But i would like to ccarry a trauma kit but will it fit in my pocket? are the some alternatives to this traumakit?
Great video. My question is this. I want to build a kit for both my wife and my car. What should I put in it? Do you have a video explaining this? Thank you in advance for your time.
Great video, great advice. I'm putting together some trauma kits for my church. BTW: there's no need and little purpose to adding the outtakes. Just sayin'. Keep up the good work.
Dont you need lub with that NPA which also takes place in your kit....might as well add 2 OPAs. They secure the airway better than NPAs and no need for lub....just another medics 2 cents.
Gauze to provide a surface to help get clotting started faster. Not to suck blood out of the body.
Pressure to Help the body to seal up the vascular system and stop external blood loss.
Tourniquet when blood is spurting and you may have multiple bleed points. High and Tight is better than low and too late. Better to Go High and tight fast then loosen in 3-5 minutes once all bleeding is found and under control than waste time on one visible bleed and not find another worse one.
Hope this helps folks focus on the overall situation when you are the first responder with gear been there done that with Paramedics on site and no gear due to being off duty. My gear their skills Equaled a save.
Recently subbed after finding your channel on my search for what to include in my trauma kit. This video is a clear indicator that I bought all the right things. Thanks skinny medic, keep up the good videos!
Thank You, Be safe and well
"Generally, the people I shoot at the range, I'm really good friends with." Guess I don't wanna be friends with this guy. Hehehe.
I caught that too :)
I looked at your website. Your videos are great and your products look like they are of high quality. I was wondering if you ever considered starting your own subscription service. I watch countless depressing unboxing videos for Battlebox. There are other boxes too, but I think they are mostly junk. I would love to have a medical supplies subscription box from you. Primarily because it will always be useful. It's medical supplies, and you can never have enough. They are consumables.
Plus, I know you won't send me Chinese dollar store products, and I think it would be a great way to build a solid foundation of useful medical supplies over time. It would be a nice alternative to spending a couple hundred bucks in one shot. It would also help educate folks on the uses, and allow them to mix and match products into their own systems. Just a thought. I love your videos, and I love that you are building your business by providing education and quality products. Keep up the great work.
You could also follow up with your own unboxing videos, which review all of the products in the box...after they have been delivered, of course. I think most of us would find that service extremely valuable. The best gear is useless if you're clueless, right?. That would be another great reason for folks to subscribe to your boxes, and to your channel. You can sign me up as soon as you get it going. Haha. Have a great day. Keep up the good work man. This is so much more pertinent to survival than arguing about guns and knives. Although, I do like my knives, and I am still kind of a flashlight snob. Don't judge me. Everybody is flawed. We're all human.
Yes I have thought about it, maybe in 2017.I do think it would be a great idea, over a years time some would have one heck of a first aid section.
I really like this idea. Perhaps even have a few different monthly suscription levels, "budget prepper", "moderate prepper" and "Dr. Prepper". :)
SkinnyMedic Give me the option to choose between the items I’d want each month and I’d definitely subscribe
He does now!!!
every Squad needs a medic and a supplier that is a must
Great info as always!
sootch00-----Love your channels and highly enjoy all the informative content you put out!!! It's been great seeing other gun channels helping and supporting other channels. It needs to happen more often these days, since all the attacks are happening to gun channels. I believe I live close to you , and Ben from Classic Firearms. If y'all ever wanted to meet up, just email me. Would enjoy learning a lot from ya! Keep up the excellent work you do brother!! God bless y'all!!
ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE PART ABOUT SUTURES!!!! THANK. YOU. SO. MUCH. Someone needs to say it.
dude this is the first time watching your videos. great info. also entertaining.
Good video. Out takes at the end are great.
Trust me sheers are important. Take it from a guy who stabbed himself while cutting off a flak jacket. Important.
Oof
This video gets a like simply because of the funny gesture when skinny medic picks his teeth and spits a bit a debris out at around the 09:38 mark. Love these videos
I hunt, and I practice with my pistol, and my AR-15. So I want to be able to do first aid at the range , and for that I need a proper kit. And a subscription to your channel
Awesome points! Gave me some insight into the type of EDC kit I may start carrying! Also, nice bloopers at the end lol.
late to the discussion, with my kit I all ways carry a decompression needle. i'm not a current EMT[ was EMT for like 10 years]. However. a lot of accident ive come across, there has been a nurse,medic or doctor show up. they can use it if you have it. also. if your camping/hiking and someone falls, etc and breaks a rib, you are there ONLY Hope....on the down side. we have to take it out when we fly. most kits are allowed on flights. even your shears ;=] Remember. Help who you can. Mind blower. there also a term. Spontainious nemothorac [spellcheck]
This was really helpful for checking what I carry in my kit and why. Thanks. I loved the bloopers too - been there, done that. more than once.:)
A lot of people who are building kits are doing it on a Monthly basis. The first person to come out with a Monthly Subscription Box will do very well.
instead of sutres i have a staple gun i picked up on a veterinary website for about 15 bux. its sterile and loaded with 35 staples. also came with a removal tool which i leave home. the staple gun is in the trauma bag that i keep in my truck. anyways, great vids. keep em comin
Great video content. Have you done a video on vented vs non-vented chest seals, pros and cons of each, and when one is better than the other?
Watch all of his videos.
What z technical name of pressure bandage?
Outtakes at end were funny.
Hey SkinnyMedic! I feel really interested in your videos. They seem clear, concise, and at a level that a non-emergency professional like myself can understand. I work in finance for a large financial firm and have little to no experience in medical emergencies. I would like to become certified (perhaps through the American Red Cross) to be able to assist my fellow man in the event of an emergency and not just certification in CPR, but in severe bleeding, broken limbs, etc. Where would you recommend I start? Thanks!
Those kits would make good Christmas presents.
Finaly found a real job start in a week when the roof is ready. The season over. Lol. Then collage nexy year. N i can finaly get my kit. Think it was like 700$. Might get my kit then stockpile later. Might just get it. Ahh what a year. Good videos. Grate job
They are recently starting to move away from the loose powder hemostatic agent as it gets washes out of the wound and its more difficult to keep in place.
I always learn a lot from your videos. Thanks. Which chest seal do you think is the so called best?
Nice Kits and explanation :D
Ive got all that minus actual chest seals, emergency blankets, celox powder, fancy combat gauze, casualty cards, and glow sticks for triage but i have occlusive dressings in place of chest seals and regular gauze instead. Ive also got berman oral airways and guedel oral airways to use along with them nose tubes. I guess Im doin pretty good :)
Where is that review on the olaes bandage?
I love all you're videos
Great blooper reel! 😝
Love your channel and vids- excellent and informative! - I'm an EMR so I am not trained in nor do I carry a de-compression needle. However, I was wondering if a CPR mask is appropriate for a trauma kit?- Thanks!
Thank you for the video.
How come you don't carry hemostat clamps in your trauma kit?? Surely gauze and tourniqets don't stop every type of bleed??
Great video Skinny! Thank you!
Now, where'd you get that shirt??
I'm a paramedic and don't even carry a decompression needle. I have no idea why a ordinary person would ever think of doing that.
Obviously, we're in an Extraordinary period. So, I can't help but think: Have you ever heard of the saying that it is Better to have it and not need it; than to need it, and not have it? So, giving that, now you have an idea why an ordinary person would want or have one. And keep in mind, that you were once an "Ordinary" person. And you learned from a Book. So why couldn't an ordinary person?
Patriotic Saint said the guy who is NOT a medic... learned from a book my ass, he learned from not getting paid while riding a ambulance and standing around a ER
Not to mention, you have to practice this skill on mannequins in Paramedic School before you do this on patients on the ambulance or in the ED
+Basketball Reasons That's what a Doc told me.
Basketball Reasons I would rather have it and not need it than not having it and needing it
Great video!
Good video D.
Good video. Best
What would be the reason to buy a non-vented chest seal? Is there some benefit to not having the vent?
From my understanding on one of his videos if you have like a through n through gunshot to chest you vent the front and seal the back. The Hyfin two packs are both vented. Seal off one or use the plastic wrapper and tape to seal the back.
ABD pad plus ACE bandage equals compression bandage IMHO?
Some great info.
How about SAM splints? Do they have any place in a trauma kit? Space permitting, I always try to incorporate one along with a cohesive wrap and triangular bandage.
evox786 K.E.D.'S Are a must. Car extractions, bathtub slip and falls the uses are endless
Also always carry a cervical collar for the same reason.
Nah I'm just yankin your chain it's your kit but I must advise against being excessive. If you have room for it pack it but you're not an ambulance you can make do in most emergencies with just a few simple items
I am a deer hunter, just now learning about basic "Stop the Bleed" and trauma medical care and setting up my very first IFAK. Someone told me I need to get an "Israeli Bandage" for my IFAK. However due to total cost, I ordered the "Premium Personal STOP THE BLEED Kit - Enhanced". It comes with a "4 in. Responder Flat Dressing". Is that a good enough pressure dressing for my IFAK or do I need to purchase an "Israeli Bandage"?
They both have an application but I prefer the Israeli. No research science behind this, just my opinion.
Don’t forget NPAs are contraindicated for head trauma. Knowing when to not use/ do something is just as important as know when to
I've heard the term "Blow Out Kit" by a couple of Operators here on RUclips which of these would qualify if any and what would be the difference?
Please also include how you can screw things up. I wouldn't hesitate to use this stuff on me, but if I am being honest...this kind of stuff maoes me extremely uneasy and that needs to change, some how
How much is combat guaze in america? Coz in australia its like $100
ministickman01 from what ive seen where im at about $30-50 usd
I'm studying to be a future paramedic, I just have to say as a boy scout and camp counselor I must agree with your list. Many of the scouts I teach and adults I work with haven't the slightest clue what to carry. Perhaps someday I'll get I through their thick heads. Anyways I feel that you would love my kit. It's light, simple, and very good considering I have very small budget.
I have no training on how to use a decompression needle, would caring one in a trauma kit so I could give it to someone on site who has training be worth it?
No. The odds of you coming across someone who would need it, and then having someone around who has the training to use it, who isn't on the ambo, is extremely small. As someone who is trained to use them, if a bystander came up to me on scene and said "hey I have this needle.." I would probably not use it. Better to wait till the Ambo. got there where the patient can be effectively managed.
Now if your big into back county hiking or something or live in the wilds of AK, it might be more useful just because of the distance to care, but I would suggest getting some training and going from their first before just getting a decomp. needle.
I'm glad that I carry all but a couple of things in my Trama Kit . I would suggest a pen light and a headlamp. If you can't see what you are doing, then all the medical precautions will be in vain
jajaja the bloopers are the best too thanks for so much
Is it common practice to have to use an NPA & what type of lubrication does it need? Does it usually come with trauma kits or with the NPA itself?
Hopefully you never have to use one, so I would say not very common for the average person. We use a water based lubrication.
It's called KY jelly. And you need to lubricate it before insertion. (the NPA tube) :-)
I don't know anyone who carries an NPA. I wouldn't even try and use one, even though it seems basic enough, because I don't have the training
Looking forward to the video on the OLEAS dressing. 😜
Do you live in Tennessee? I like the patch on on the wall.
no that is from the NRA when it was in TN
Good stuff
do you sell all those patches? and where do you get your ketamine versed for trauma kits?
No these are just patches I have collected
Good video
Skinny Love you vids !! i have an question...i wear drespants everyday because of my style lol and work lol...I carry a knife, flashlight and multitiool. no guns,i live in europe:(. But i would like to ccarry a trauma kit but will it fit in my pocket? are the some alternatives to this traumakit?
+Carter Nah, you wont even fit a first aid kit in your pocket, only thing that would work is a israeli bandage. But you can fit it into a backpack.
Carter ankle carry, several options out there
great vid thx, keep those bloopers coming lmao
Can you do a vid on sutures?
Or have you done one already?
Great video. My question is this. I want to build a kit for both my wife and my car. What should I put in it? Do you have a video explaining this? Thank you in advance for your time.
Great video, great advice. I'm putting together some trauma kits for my church. BTW: there's no need and little purpose to adding the outtakes. Just sayin'. Keep up the good work.
Dont you need lub with that NPA which also takes place in your kit....might as well add 2 OPAs. They secure the airway better than NPAs and no need for lub....just another medics 2 cents.
Carry the gloves. They primarily are for disease prevention; but dirty hands put dirt in injuries.
lose a tooth?
Good friends = no need for ppe .... sure thing
o7
Toyboat...toyboat! Deep breath...now try.