Miscellaneous

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…