This is trauma kit
@Taco2Cruiser suggested:
ETA Trauma Kit - Medical
ITS tactical does have a nice looking bag for this (Tallboy and Fatboy options) for $62.99. The bag is made in the USA by Zulu Nylon Gear for ITS tactical. Just watched a review of it on youtube:
Sounds like that might be a good fit for the passenger headrest bag. Looking at the list of what it includes:
ETA Trauma Kit Contents & Features
QuickClot Combat Gauze LE (Features X-Ray Detectable Strip)
Beacon Chest Seal (1 Standard, 1 Vented)
Decompression Needle
Nasopharyngeal Airway (NPA) Adj. 28fr
Pressure Dressing (4”)
Compressed Gauze
Nitrile Gloves (1 Pair)
Kits are 100% Latex Free
Kits are Vacuum Sealed Using ITS TruFlex™ Material
Kits Measure Approximately 5.7” Length x 3.5” Width x 1.7” Depth
Kits are Hand Assembled and Sealed at ITS HQ
would this, plus a SOF wide tourniquet be everything you'd want to have for the potential "antler comes through the windshield" or other accident scenario where you weren't able to reach anything else from drivers seat?
I could then do an additional bag in the rear with my little Boo Boo kit
That ITS is just a really good IFAK that Soldiers wear on their kit, which is why it packs small. When we get shot, blown up, caught on fire, or crushed, that's what we use for self aid, until Doc shows up. I have basically that kit plus some meds in a BROG small bag on their velcro panel on my driver headrest. That way, either of my hands can get to it. I'll say that your immediate trauma kit mounted above your shoulders is going to be tough, you could have shoulder/neck injuries, or worse a penetrated chest wound. Those injuries are going to make reaching up over your head, or to the other side of the truck painful, or impossible. Ideally, the immediate kit would be somewhere like the cup holder area, able to get to without out stretching too much. Maybe stuck to the side of the console by the e-brake would be a good place also. I'm accepting some risk by putting it behind my head. Unrelated, I do keep a seat belt cutter on my sun visor to prevent getting stuck in the vehicle. Then I keep my aid bag between the rear glass and the folded up 3rd row seat/on top of the 3rd row seat with a velcro strap with a quick pull tap to keep it in place, but really quickly break it free, so I can get to it easy for others that are injured. My aid bag has 5 SOF wide tourniquets, 4 Israeli bandages, 6 4x4" Quickclots, and a crap ton of sterile guaze and wide tape. There's also a chest seal, decompression needle, break and shake cold packs, emergency blankets, SAM splints, NPA and lube, seat belt cutter, and IV needles, sterile cleaning wipes and protective shields, and a couple sharpies (I have an IV bag, but with the new TC3, even I am reserved to use it. And a couple suckers, sometimes, you just need a sucker when your sucking'. Then every one gets a boo boo kit. Basically its pretty close to the ITS boo boo kit, with Cerasport. I've used more cerasport hiking around for other people I see on the trails (back when I could still hike) that were just looking like they were a little to pale. "hey man, you okay", "oh umm uh yeah it's just... hot", "yeah that's great guy, sit down, put this in your BS water bottle and drink, you look like you just walked out from ground zero, all pasty white."
Is it a lot, yeah it is, . My aid bag, it my aid bag I kept in my gun truck, so i've got some muscle memory with it. And the boo boo kits just go in our personal bags, so everything important is able to get to without moving anything, and personal boo boos are always where that person left it. It doesn't take away from any space that would of been used for anything else.
Some little advice when trying to stop bleeding, pressure. If a limb, drive your knee into the wound to get some slow down, that way you can free your two hands to attach tourniquet. High and tight, as high and tight on the limb as it can go. 1) You can't tell what's injured on internally, so don't hope that what visible from the outside is what wrong on the inside and 2) there are two bones below the elbows and knees, but only one above the elbows and knees. The tourniquet is going to try and squeeze those lower bones together, and if the bleeding is coming between the bones, you'll have a hard time getting the bleeding to stop, especially on hikers with strong leg muscles. High and tight, you're not going to make the casualty loose their elbows or knees. We'v learned you can leave tourniquets on for 36-42 hour before the joint dies. And if you can't get the casualty to a higher level of care in that time, they are dead anyway. For chest wounds, just start packing quick clot, then isreali bandages and pressure from hands. It's going to suck, we're not thoracic surgeons, so just do what you can. If crushed in or under something, if its a limb, tourniquet, then release them. If the injury is head, neck, chest, abdomen leave them where they are. Unless fire is imminent, then yeah get them out, but if they are crushed by the head or core, leave them. There needs to be serious medical professionals and equipment on site ready for those injuries upon release. Or it at least gives the casualty time to make a last phone call to loved ones... hunt the good stuff as they say.
And most importantly, be calm and get them calm, calm slows the heart, slows the blood pumping, helps keep that blood in the body, hence the sucker. But don't let them fall asleep, if their saying their tired, keep them awake.
Some additional readying, according to the American College of Surgeons’ Advanced Trauma Life Support, hemorrhaging can be divided into four classifications of severity. The first class is the least severe, concerning a hemorrhage equal to or lesser than 15 percent of the body’s total blood volume. For reference, when a person donates blood, about
8-10% of the body’s blood is removed. There are generally no symptoms of blood loss at this point, though some may feel slightly faint.
A Class 2 hemorrhage is a loss of 15 to 30 percent of blood volume. This is where symptoms of blood loss begin to manifest. “The body tries to compensate at this point with, among other things, a faster heartbeat to speed oxygen to tissues,” Alton said. “The patient will feel weak, appear pale, and skin will be cool.”
The next level of blood loss occurs with the Class 3 hemorrhage, which references loss of 30 to 40 percent of total blood volume. This could be around 3 to 4 pints of blood, for those keeping track. Blood transfusion is usually necessary with a hemorrhage of this magnitude.
At this point, the heart will be beating very quickly and is straining to get enough oxygen to tissues. Blood pressure drops. Smaller blood vessels are constricting to keep the body core circulation going.
The final classification of hemorrhaging, Class 4, occurs when a person loses over 40 percent of their blood volume. A hemorrhage so severe requires immediate and major resuscitative help, or else the strain on the body’s circulatory system will be too great to survive. The heart will no longer be able to maintain blood pressure and circulation, so organs will fail and the casualty will slip into a comatose state preceding death.
This is called
hypovolemic shock, and the prognosis depends on many factors, including the amount of blood lost, the rate at which a patient is losing it, and the injury underlying the blood loss.
