Quote: (11-08-2018 09:58 PM)ChicagoFire Wrote:
To clarify, I was talking about how I initially wanted to go the Ronin course to community college to paramedic route. I rather just watch videos to understand my trauma kit. Sorry about the confusion. I personally am buying a trauma kit and learning how to use it. Ideally, if working as a paramedic paid more I'd do it. Making more money and practicing a vital skill is win-win. But no way I'd spend thousands and time to just make about $15 an hour. I speak for myself, if some high school kids that read this thread want to get their feet wet in the medical industry they could knock themselves out. If people want to go beyond civilian training and venture into a career then more power to them.
Just ordered my kit via the build your own trauma kit as well as a couple other skinnymedic vids:
* Orca bag
* Tourniquet
* 2 chest seals
* Combat gauze
* NPA
* Scissors
* Mylar blanket
* Duct tape
* Celox granules
* Israeli bandage
* Gloves
so about $120 off Amazon. Thanks everyone for answering, hopefully we never have to get into a situation where we have to deploy our trauma kits.
Quote: (11-08-2018 02:26 PM)CaptainChardonnay Wrote:
Quote: (11-08-2018 08:51 AM)ChicagoFire Wrote:
Quote: (11-07-2018 01:26 PM)CaptainChardonnay Wrote:
Online you can look up Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) manuals which is what the military is using for trauma care. If you were preparing for something like a mass shooting then hemorrhage control is what you would aim to achieve.
This is probably the appropriate route for those that aren't looking into changing careers. Just know general principles of handling a medical kit and how to apply basic treatments. Not exactly ideal but I personally wouldn't want to spend thousands and time for a job that doesn't pay much.
You're not being clear. Are you looking for job training to get a job or just a book and some youtube videos so you know what you are doing? What does pay have anything to do with your OP?
If you're going to carry all that with you, you should know how to use it, so I would strongly encourage you to take a course.
I laughed out loud, and was hugely relieve to see you aren't in the countries I live in, when I saw you are carrying an NPA, and might actually use it, on the basis that you've watched a YouTube video. I was on a combat first aid course once with a Belarusian soldier, who wanted to treat an allergic reaction to a wasp sting with a tracheostomy. The laughter that one produced was much more nervous.
You are also missing some basic stuff, like a burn shield, a splint, an indelible marker, sterile solution etc etc.
Really, if you are going to walk around with that kind of stuff, do the people you might use it on the courtesy of getting trained with every item in the pack so that you have at least a reasonable chance of using it properly in a crisis. You don't want to find yourself using celox on a stomach wound, for example, and I personally wouldn't want to bleed to death with the added indignity of having another man grope softly around my crotch looking for my artery and not finding it.