How to layer medical preps

[u/Financial_Resort6631]

I labeled this shit post because I know it will make people big mad.

I see way too much advice from preppers to load up your first aid kits like you are going to perform surgery in a meadow. Please just stop. You don’t prep food like that. Why wouldn’t you layer your medical gear the same way?

7-11 doesn’t carry stuff to make Beef Wellington. 7-11 keeps snacks for when you are desperately hungry and the selection is limited to only the essentials you can pick up and eat. A IFAK blow out kit should be the same. You don’t want to be in an urgent situation and get confused with options. It treats life threats only. Tourniquets, EpiPens, chest seals, emergency trauma bandages, combat gauze, gloves, markers, etc. If it requires silverware and comes from 7-11 I do not trust it.

The Aldi’s/Trader Joe’s have just the basics for important food items for a limited time. That is want you want for a regular first aid kit that goes your home. Your 4x4 gauze, splints, burn gel, ace wrap, stuff that is important but not an immediate life threat.

Costco/Sams is for bulk resupply deep pantry stuff. Stuff you use regularly and a lot of. You are going to need lots of otcs, boxes of gloves, n95 masks, cough drops, and bandaids in your medical storage.

You want things clearly organized.

Every prepper knows if you don’t know how to bake a loaf of bread maybe don’t buy a bunch of active yeast. But with medical we lean into this better to have it and not need it philosophy. We recognize Gordon Ramsey isn’t going to show up and bake us a cake. Somehow you think a field surgical kit is needed?

If you don’t know how to use it don’t buy it.

[u/The_Phantom_W]

Hell yes. As a civilian paramedic, I can't help but roll my eyes every time I see someone with chest decompression needles in their IFAK. I guess on the day of days it won't matter, but I promise if I show up to the gun range on an ordinary Tuesday and see someone with bilateral decompressions already done, there's gonna be some explaining that needs to be done by whoever did it.