Here’s a small trauma kit I keep in whatever bag I am carrying each day. If I am rendering care as a bystander this is my primary kit. If I am present in a professional clinical capacity this would be a secondary or tertiary kit.
I do not consider this kit alone to be sufficient if I am somewhere in a professional clinical capacity.
Topics covered here:
Kit overview
Flying with the kit
Carrying the kit
Kit contents
MARCH algorithm applied to the kit
Packing and human factors
Invasive interventions beyond first aid
Detailed packing list with prices
Lower cost kit
In my general travels, the most common hazards I am likely to encounter that could lead to a significant injury include motor vehicle accidents, trips/falls from height, and interpersonal violence.
I’ve been traveling with versions of this kit for nearly a year. The intent is to be able to temporize some of the top preventable causes of death in trauma, other than hypothermia. Hypothermia will be managed with the resources on hand at the moment.
This is not meant to be definitive treatment, rather bridging a gap between point of injury and professional responders. In some areas that gap is only a few minutes and others it is hours.
