Probably depend on your area......
football / rugby games
bonfire party's
concerts
street party's and carnivals
If your unemployed it might be worth asking the job centre about training too
home first aid kit
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If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
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Re: home first aid kit
If you are looking for first aid training why not volunteer for the St Johns Ambulance and get the training for free?
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damaralenoire wrote:Even though i have approx 8 first aid kits in total, my main household one was purchased through the St John Ambulance website, Their kits come fully packed with the essentials and its all quality
Good tip... I went to their website and bought their work kit refill, which is all the useful stuff minus the box etc and therefore a bit cheaper
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Added: £8.33 - Standard delivery from St John's website, are they taking the p***??
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In the end I didn't check out and got one from Amazon instead for about £15. It was a nice kit though there is a fair bit of duplication with what I already have e.g. scissors, and stuff that I don't see myself needing a lot of e.g. foil blankets, triangular bandages. I have split the stuff between home and car, taking account of the different needs of incidents at home n on the road.
In future I will just be stocking up on things like wound dressings, and replacing saline solution/antiseptic every so often.
In future I will just be stocking up on things like wound dressings, and replacing saline solution/antiseptic every so often.
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The whole duplicate thing... Too many foil blankets no such thing.. You come across a 2 car pile up on a back road in the middle of winter with 5 or more injured people..... Who gets the one blanket<?
Same with triangle bandages same accident 2 people with broken legs that need splinting as help is a long way ayay there's 8 triangle bandages gone
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Same with triangle bandages same accident 2 people with broken legs that need splinting as help is a long way ayay there's 8 triangle bandages gone
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Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
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Good point mate, and in fact I have put both blankets in my car kit, plus all but one of the triangular bandages as in the home I could improvise both.
Btw I felt that my kit was a bit low on wound dressings and also it had no steri strips but I managed to get a reasonable starting stock of 8-10 of each on Amazon for under a fiver.
Btw I felt that my kit was a bit low on wound dressings and also it had no steri strips but I managed to get a reasonable starting stock of 8-10 of each on Amazon for under a fiver.
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sterristrips can be had in tesco in among the plasters and such in green little envelope packets
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Came across an accident tonight a 20 stone chap had come off his bike KO'ed himself bust his leg and thumb. + neck pain.......
took me 2 foil blankets to wrap him up he was a big chap
took me 2 foil blankets to wrap him up he was a big chap
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
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Wife is a Paramedic so I asked her to come up with a list of must haves in a FAK to cover most eventualities. After removing the specialist bits like O2 and morphine we ended up with this:
Bandages
Steri strips
Water gel
Foil blanket with fleece
Tremadol
Ibuprofen
Calpol
Cocodamol
Paracetamol
Anti-histamine
Gloves
Our home one is stored in a Tupperware box and the travel one is keep in a toiletry bag.
Bandages
Steri strips
Water gel
Foil blanket with fleece
Tremadol
Ibuprofen
Calpol
Cocodamol
Paracetamol
Anti-histamine
Gloves
Our home one is stored in a Tupperware box and the travel one is keep in a toiletry bag.