Celox and QuickClot for First Aid Kit?

[Crazydoc68]

As statdoc said tourniquets are the first thing we use in the military now for hemorrhage or any heavy venous bleeding. They have had cases of patients having them on for 14hrs and the doctors still being able to save the limb. And I've actually been able to convert a tourniquet over to kerlix and a pressure dressing after getting out of the line of fire. Just got to know what you are doing. But extremity hemorrhage nothing beats a tourniquet.

 

[Crazydoc68]

And just recently the army standard went from a 14ga 3.25in catheter to a 10ga 3.25in now.

 

[statdoc]

Some of you must be as old as I am, relating these tales of "what we used to do"! Yes, I remember all that stuff, too, but things have progressed!

 

[Crazydoc68]

I remember stories like that from my instructors.....I'm a young one! Only 35!

 

[flyandscuba]

With the rear facing seat in the BO-105 CBS -- my favorite was a 12 or 14 ga. in the external jugular - wraping the tubing around the ear and taping to secure. Worked great on "minimum scene-time hot loads" since the patient's head was between my knees anyway...

Fun times with lots of memories -- but I'm glad that I'm not working the crappy hours for low pay we got back then. I saw an ad for a flight paramedic position with Guardian Flight up here in Anchorage a couple of days ago -- with an $88K salary for 15 shifts per month. When I left Life Flight in 1988, I was working full-time for the hospital and moonlighting for both Escambia and Santa Rosa EMS -- and barely making $20K per year. The base hourly rate for a Flight Paramedic with Baptist Hospital was $6.17 per hour. When I took the Chief Flight Paramedic position at Erlanger Medical Center's Life Force in Chattanooga for $25K per year in July, 1988 -- I thought I was on my way!

So yes, things have come a long way in 25 years...

 

[statdoc]

When I left Life Flight in 1988, I was working full-time for the hospital and moonlighting for both Escambia and Santa Rosa EMS -- and barely making $20K per year.

So yes, things have come a long way in 25 years...

That's sort of "small world" stuff. I was Medical Director for Baptist Life Flight 1992-1997. I loved that little BO105!

 

[flyandscuba]

I loved that little BO105!

I liked it too! But I really liked the room/useful load we had in the Bell 412 in Chattanooga - up to two pilots, three flight crew and four patients! Now, it seems that everyone has gone back to the smaller (one patient) helicopters.

 

[FrankT]

Glad to have you here now Statdoc, keep us straight!

 

[JohnAL]

Glad to have you here now Statdoc, keep us straight!

:thumb:
What he said.

 

[Fletch]

Your book looks like just what I need statdoc. I'm certified for CPR and the AED and that's the extent of my training unfortunately. I would like to be able to have at least a basic set of skills and supplies just in case.