First aid kit w/ bullet trauma in mind

[jwmoore]

What's with the sharpie?

It's important to document.... Write vitals on your glove, 'T 0905' on a patient's forehead ... You (at least I) can't give or write a thorough report from memory....

~W

 

[sevenpoint62mm]

my advice is to spend as little time as possible screwing around in the field with first aid kits, and get whoever is shot to a hospital ASAP. Most gunshot wound victims can be saved if you will just get them to a hospital.

I think we can all agree on that. I'm just concerned about making sure the "golden hour" is an hour and not 3 minutes.

Jwmoore pegged it on the sharpie.

 

[R.H. Lee]

In case you shove a shotgun down your pants, you might want to have a pair of Neuticles on hand.

 

[Pilgrim]

No bone saws?

No cauterizing irons?

No pitch to melt down and pour into gaping wounds?

 

[Billy Sparks]

I think we can all agree on that. I'm just concerned about making sure the "golden hour" is an hour and not 3 minutes.

Just something to think about do you know the address of where you shoot? If it is a remote location can you give directions? Do you have a cell phone? Does it work there? Where are the 1st responders coming from? If you cell phone works will it hit the appropriate 911 center?

I ask all of this because if there is a accident or illness (we worry about GSW, but what about a heart attack or a bee sting?) you want to put in
the call early.

 

[444]

" do you know the address of where you shoot?"

This is critical. If you are calling 911, know the EXACT address of where you are if possible. If it takes a second to find out, find out.
This is one of my pet peeves. This causes me high blood pressure. This pisses me off so bad I can't see straight. If you give your location as a cross street, you had better be standing in the middle of that intersection. Otherwise we can't find you. We aren't psyhic. If you don't give us your EXACT loaction, we can't find you: period. Close isn't good enough.
Imagine if I invited you to my house and simply gave you the name of the closest cross street. Imagine if I lived in an apartment complex and I just gave you the name of the complex and no apartment number. Or said I didn't know the building number. :banghead: How successful do you think a business would be if they gave out their location in advertising as: I don't know exactly, but it is close to 1st and Main.

 

[bogie]

Keep in mind that a range accident likely WON'T involve a gunshot. More likely something like a beesting or snakebite, cuts/puncture wounds from shrapnel bouncing back from targets, sprains and minor cuts, etc... I'd guess that the most traumatic type of injury would occur with catastrophic chamber failure, due to a bore obstruction or overloading.

I'd recommend having a CB or cell phone in your vehicle, along with GPS coordinates for your range.

 

[Billy Sparks]

I always hate wreck calls that get dispatched I-40 South of Hwy 52 or where ever. This is the intersection of two major mulit lane roads that run from county line to county line. There is nothing more fun than driving on a multilane highway in rush hour trying to run fast enough to not be run over but slow enough to look for a wreck. Oh did I mention communications wants to know if you looked in the other lanes. :banghead:

along with GPS coordinates for your range

I really don't know how helpful that will be. I don't know if a lot of the 911 centers around me are capable of using GPS coordinates. Most E911 systems are built around a street address, with the fudge factor of GPS I don't know if it would return a valid address. Better to have a steet address even if a approxmation (500 block of Whatever St.) and a GPS then just a GPS coordinate.