re. emergency first aid kits, one of the most inadequate areas of most first aid kits I've seen is the sterile compress area. An excellent addition to any kit is a couple of sterile maternity pads. I used to get them from the docs and nurses in the ER when I was there on a serious accident followup as a M/C Sgt. You should be able to get them from any medical supply house. They are large and have gauze tails which are long enough for tying them in position anywhere on the body. When you have a large bleeding wound you don't want to have to mess with 4x4 compresses that are more appropriate for replacing a bandaid. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Flory, San Jose, CA. daflory_at_pacbell.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Speak softly and study Aikido, then you won't need a big stick. ©2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Sep 11 2000 - 11:30:59 PDT
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