DIY Medical First Aid Kit | Build vs Buy Rhino Rescue 

Great selection, some suggestions: 1. The glass breaker won't work for the windscreen since they are laminated, go for the side/door windows. 2. Get a second tourniquet and practice with it. Formal training is the best, but just trying it is enough to save lives, it's hard to get it wrong. Just jam it down as hard as it goes until the bleeding stop, leave it and let professionals take it off. You should probably also stage the tourniquet, that is prepare it for use. Keeping it in the plastic means you have a lot of seconds until you can get it to where you need it. 3. Add some Aspirin, for chest pains. 4. I would absolutely not trust my life or anyone else's to that Rhino Rescue tourniquet or anything else that's not CoTCCC-approved. There are so many fakes and inferior products out there. I would use it for training though.

If you don't mind a few suggestions from an EMT I have a couple tips for you: - Take the tourniquet out of the plastic wrap. They don't need to be sterile. You can also practice putting it on. As long as you don't tighten it enough to put stress on the fibers, you can use it afterwards. It sounds simple to do in theory, but there's a lot of stress and adrenaline in that situation as I'm sure you experienced. - Same type of suggestion with the Israeli bandage. Those are generally pretty easy to apply, but at least watch a couple videos on how they work. Those do include a sterile component, so I wouldn't take it out of the bag. - Add/switch one of the medications for Aspirin. Besides being useful for fevers and general aches and pains, you can give a person 324mg (4 baby aspirin) or 325mg (1 adult aspirin) if they are having chest pain. It won't stop a heart attack, but it can prevent a heart attack from becoming worse. - Add some Benadryl. You mentioned that your wife has some allergies, this can be really helpful for that, and actually can be given for severe allergic reactions as well. Make sure you know the dosage (it will be listed on the bottle). - Add some alcohol prep pads. These things are super handy. They can be used for general cleaning purposes, and can also be used to clean a cut before you apply a bandage. - No harm really in having the face shield, but the AHA has recently updated their guidelines to indicate that hands-only CPR is the preferred method for CPR on a stranger. The risk of respiratory disease from doing mouth to mouth is too great, and generally there is still enough oxygenated blood in the body that the compressions will help more. - This one is a little more niche, but you can buy little saline squirt bottles called Saljet. Super easy to use and can be good to wash out a laceration/abrasion before dressing it, but could also be useful for washing an irritant out of an eye. - The SAM Split (the one in the Rhino kit) is really useful too. The thing with fractures is that the only one we consider to be life threatening is a femur fracture, and you need a much more serious split for that, so leaving a fracture untreated is not a big issue. Sam splits are super easy to use -- still worth looking up a video about it if you choose to include one -- and can be used on many different types of fractures as well. Overall great video!

I would also take that tourniquet out of the wrap and have it ready to use. Every second would count in that situation.

I would say that emergency blanket is a must have item. If you are in the middle of the open, trying to help someone, in cold condition, keeping a person warm is a pretty important task. Those blankets are dirty cheap & very compact. I have a couple of them just in case. Thanks for the video. Always interesting to watch.

That tweezers set is a great idea. Thanks for that idea.

Tourniquets should be romoved from the packaging for quicker access. They are not meant to be sterile.

Awesome video. Were you able to find links to some of the equipment (ie. the medical pitch, scissors, so on.)?

Very useful video

A really great kit

Would recommend high dose (300mg) aspirin in case of myocardial infarction!

Very nice bag with great ideas and tools. Really like that Leatherman scissors. I would add some antidiarrheal / stomach meds to your kit. Nothing ruins a trip like a rumbly tummy.

Did you figure out what that bag is called?

An alternative bag suggestion: If you're looking for a little more rugged and built pouch with better organization, I recommend the Vanquest FATpack. They're a bit pricey, however, they work super well and I've had my Gen1 for such a long time. MOLLE/PALS, Velcro, plenty or room for what you need. Oh, and something else I would look into for that Rino Ready: Lifestraws and some glowsticks. Highly recommend.

Howdy from Ireland! Do you have any EDC/Multitool suggestions for musicians?

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