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Is Comfort-care an Essential Item in Your First Aid Kit?
Do you have comfort care as an essential item in your First Aid kit? It may seem like an odd question to ask, but I see it as an essential question to ask. Once defined, I believe comfort care can magnify whatever other treatment is provided to someone who is ill or injured. As I…
Read MoreThere is Value to Life. Tourniquets can Save a Life. (Demonstrating the Placement of a Tourniquet)
This video completes a trilogy of videos having to do with tourniquets. This video will demonstrate tourniquet placement. And this tourniquet trilogy is part of a larger series describing the first seven essential items in my first aid kit. Just to review, number seven was cravats (triangular bandages), number 6 was hemostatic dressings and number…
Read MoreTourniquets Can Save Lives! But What’s a Cravat?
Tourniquets can save lives! But what’s a cravat? Watch, learn, or be reminded. Tourniquets are the 5th item of the first seven essential items in my first aid kit. Tourniquets can bring fear or hesitancy in some assuming the person’s limb will be lost. Others get confused it they can tighten, then loosen, on/off at…
Read MoreWhat is a Hemostatic Dressing? Watch and Discover…
What is a Hemostatic dressings? It is a wound-care treatment that can affectively accelerate the clotting process even with some severe bleeding. In most cases it is best to utilize these dressings along with quality direct pressure which I will demonstrate in the next video. Hemostatic dressings are my number 6 on my first seven…
Read MoreWhat do Buildings and Burns Have in Common?
What do buildings and burns have in common? Well listen and find out. This is the 3rd in Shawn’s series titled, “The first seven essentials to Shawn’s first aid kit.” In this episode Shawn explains how cravats – AKA triangular bandages – can also be used for burn care. Yet the kind of cravat you…
Read MoreSeventh of My First Seven Essentials to My First Aid Kit is: Cravats! What’s a cravat, you say…?
Cravats, AKA, triangular bandages, have a variety of uses. In this video, I introduce using a cravat for wound care. This is particularly useful when the cravat is made from a muslin (cotton) material, so that it still has an absorbing quality. Cravats can be used initially for bleeding control, or to secure a pressure…
Read MoreFirst Aid kit; Do you have one? Do you know what’s in it? Consider these 7 essential items!
By definition emergencies are not planned, yet we can plan for emergencies. One way to plan is to have at least one first aid kit. If you already have one, do you know what’s in it? Do you know what would be good to have in it? This is the first in a series @shawnritcheyLIVE…
Read MoreHe Asked the Wrong Question…
This is the 9th and final episode in this series on the Good Samaritan. In this last episode I suggest the lawyer asked the wrong question of, “Who’s my neighbor?” before Jesus tells the story of the Good Samaritan. When asking, “Who’s our neighbor?” implies that someone is not our neighbor. I believe that allows…
Read MoreWho is My Neighbor? Have We not Pondered that a lot in This Series? Now Let’s Answer It!
In this 8th installment of the Good Samaritan parable we arrive at defining a neighbor through Merriam Webster, views in Jesus’ day, and finally through Jesus as Prophet, Priest, and returning King. How, then, should this influence our view of our neighbors? Do we include someone’s ethnic background or financial status or religion or “same…
Read MoreForeigner, hero, neighbor? The Good Samaritan is all of these.
Foreigner, hero, or neighbor? The Good Samaritan is all of these. This is now the 7th in this series on the Good Samaritan story. This video will explore why each of the above descriptions have some truth when referring to the Samaritan. We will also consider how and why Jesus described him. To learn more…
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