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Area 4 Medical Team Educational Links & Resources
The area 4 medical team has put together a list of resources and links to help all in an emergency situations and every day medical treatment
The area 4 medical team has graciously put together a list of resources and links to help all in an emergency situation and every day medical treatment. Please note, there are attachments that are also included in this newsroom. Please scroll to the bottom for those attachments.
PREPARING FOR EMERGENCIES
Listed below are educational videos found on YouTube, instructing in first aid techniques and multiple emergency situations. YouTube is a wealth of information and these videos are a small sampling of what is available for you to watch, learn and familiarize yourself with.
Watch the videos multiple times if needed to gain some comfort level, if you have no medical background. Please do not be intimidated with some medical terminology used. One picture is worth a thousand words and videos can teach a great deal without needing to understand each medical term. There are often multiple videos on the topic you are watching that you might glean even more from. Please give suggestions to Medical First Responders if you might want a video added to the list.
You also need to understand that in an emergency situation, the recommendation will almost always be to transport to a hospital for further care and monitoring. Use your best judgement.
One important point concerning the use of tourniquets in major bleeding emergencies: We do not recommend the use of tourniquets, but understand that they are coming back into greater use. There are videos that cover this and we will leave this to your discretion to search them out. Concerning simple basic first aid, there are so many videos covering this, that we recommend you check out for yourself what you feel you need.
VIDEOS
SAFE STEPS First Aid: Burns Sept. 8,2017
SAFE STEPS First Aid: Choking Sept. 8, 2017
How to: Needle Decompression of the Chest April 30,2010
Tension Pneumothorax Education and Management – EMTprep.com Feb. 21,2019
How to Treat a Gunshot Wound-Stay Alive Until Help Arrives March 18,2018
(TREATING MAJOR BLEEDS IS INCLUDED IN THIS VIDEO)
How to Splint a Broken Arm May 29,2009
Tricky Immobilizations/EMS Splinting Dec. 23, 2013
(Compound Fractures – Graphic pictures)
Building an Improvised Traction Splint in the Wilderness 7 years ago
How to Reduce A Dislocated Shoulder/The EM Boot Camp Course July 15, 2019
The Davos Method of Shoulder Dislocation Reduction. May 2, 2016
Wilderness Medicine: Shoulder Splinting Dec 23, 2012
Home Supplies for Sprains/Fractures Kit
Gather items around your home you can use to immobilize and protect an injury.
• Tongue blades/popsicle sticks for splinting fingers/hands
• Empty paper towel rolls for splinting larger areas like wrists/ankles
• Sturdy cardboard to splint
• Any small lengths of wood for splinting arms/legs
▪ Clean towels/sheets/T shirts for padding and wrapping
▪ Medical tape/Duck tape
▪ Saran wrap for wrapping around splints
▪ Plastic freezer bags for ice.
Hemorrhage Kit
For bleeding: clamp for spurting artery
▪ double chest seal,
▪ gloves
▪ Betadine to sterilize instruments and hands, gloves,
▪ ace wraps
▪ Kotex
▪ adhesive paper tape
▪ ammonia
▪ Mylar blanket for shock
▪ quick-clot
▪ Tourniquet, with the caveat that if it is applied, it may save a life and lose the limb.
▪ shears to cut clothes off
▪ 2 gauze bandages, to stuff in a deep wound.
Burn Kit List
- Nitrile gloves (for your protection)
- Cool compress (to cool down the burn)
- and/or water basin (for cool NOT cold water)
- 100% Aloe Vera gel (if skin is not broken)
- Antibacterial ointment (if skin is broken) : bacitracin or silvadine
- Cotton swabs (to apply ointment or to clean out debris)
- Non-stick bandages (to protect the burn area) (i.e. Adaptic, Xeroform, telfa)
- Gauze (to keep the bandage in place): wrap loosely
- Paper tape~ never wrap tape circumfrentially. Swelling=create tourniquet effect.
- Pain meds (OTC- Tylenol, Advil, etc.)
Asthma/Allergy/Anaphylaxis Kit
- One extra of each inhaler. (Rescue & long acting)
- Nebulizer machine, tubing, and mask
- Extra Nebulizer solution, normal saline if not pre-mixed
- Benadryl
- Epi Pens
- Expectorants (Robitussin syrup, mucinex)
- Oxygen saturation monitor
- Peak Flow meter
- Humidifier’s or diffuser
*********If humidity needed and you don’t have a humidifier, steam up the BR by running hot water shower with the door closed.
Purchasing Resources
- Dollar Store (any one for very basic things like ointments, bandages, OTC meds)
- MyMedic.com
- Army/Navy Store on Chidden in Garden City
- Norco ( most expensive) locations Boise & Meridian
- https://www.cheaperthandirt.com/survival-gear/?cgid=99907 (survival medical supplies)
- https://www.redcross.org/store/preparedness
- https://www.dollardays.com/wholesale-survival-gear.html
- https://www.thereadystore.com/emergency-preparedness-supplies
- Amazon
Book Resources
* Advanced First Aid Afloat by Peter
- $10.95 Amazon
- recommended by our doctor for more advanced first aid skills
* First Aid- Responding to Emergencies
- 9.50 Amazon
- Basic First Aid
- uses older CPR methodology
* The Prepper Pages: A Surgeon’s Guide to Scavenging Items for a Medical Kit by Dr. Ryan Chamberlin
- $18.89 Amazon
- Basic and Complex First Aid
* Wilderness Medicine: Beyond First Aid by William Forgery, MD
- $9.99 Amazon
- good for Urban prep (avoiding hospitals), not wilderness survival (herbs and forestry)
* EMT Crash Course by Christopher Coughlin, PhD
- $10.95 Amazon
- Emergency Medical Technician prep course
* The Survival Medicine Handbook
- $37.99 Amazon
- Comprehensive
- Advanced medical on layman terms
- $9.99 Amazon
- good for Urban prep (avoiding hospitals), not wilderness survival (herbs and forestry)
* EMT Crash Course by Christopher Coughlin, PhD
- $10.95 Amazon
- Emergency Medical Technician prep course
* The Survival Medicine Handbook
- $37.99 Amazon
- Comprehensive
- Advanced medical on layman terms
