Every man must carry a medical kit
Health
When we're out and about, men should be equipped with a medical kit to help other people in case of emergency. It's not about being a hero, it's about being able to help.
Carry a basic medical kit and you’ll be ready to spring into action and offer life-saving assistance when disaster strikes. David Hickman, a first responder with lives.org.uk, explains his top five must-carry items:
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Two triangular bandages
For everything from head injuries to tying a splint. You can also use them as a tourniquet to stem a catastrophic bleed (with a stick to twist them tighter). But remember: tourniquets can save a life but can also cost a limb. Use them for catastrophic bleeding and nothing else! A medical kit must. Buy
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Non-adherent dressings
A medical kit essential for grazes, use dressings and micropore tape to secure them to the wound. Buy
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Scissors/tweezers
Tough, sharp scissors are required to cut off clothes. Medical tweezers can be used to remove anything from a splinter to sea urchin spines. Buy
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Sterile wipes/Saline pods
Wipes can be used to clean a wound. You could also use pods of saline and some gauze squares. Saline is also useful for cleaning sand out of eyes. Keep plenty of these in your medical kit. Buy
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Bottle of water
It doesn't sound very exciting but water is an essential carry. It has multiple uses from cleaning wounds and cooling burns, to rehydrating a patient.
LIVES has more than 70 volunteer doctors, nurses and paramedics who respond to complex or traumatic 999 medical emergencies across Lincolnshire. Visit lives.org.uk.
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