Sunday, April 05, 2026

Something I'll pass along, not just for current circumstances

but for future uses, a trauma kit for a church.

I'm not a trained medical guy, just some stuff picked up over time, overall this looks like a good kit.  With, hugely important, someone having some training.  One thing to have a chest seal, another to have someone who already knows how to put it on, not kneeling there reading directions and thinking "God, I hope this works!"

Not a bad kit for a lot of places.l

2 comments:

ruralcounsel said...

Not unlike the kits I carry in my vehicles and take to the range.

Phelps said...

Our church (70-100 attendance) has one with pretty much all that. Also for the school. And we had a trainer come in and give about a dozen of us tactical first aid training. We don’t have NPAs because he taught us to do rescue positioning, and we are deep in the city where the ambos are likely less than 10 minutes away. We need to keep them alive that long plus however long it takes to get the shooter (which shouldn’t be too long with how many armed deacons and/or teachers we have.)

We aren’t trained on NPAs, so we don’t stock them. We have several pairs of chest seals (if you have an entry wound, you probably have an exit wound.)