Who carries a First Aid Kit?

[kingsknight]

I did a British Red Cross first aid class on Monday and I now brought myself a First Aid Kit for my bike! Anyone else carry them and if so which one did you get?
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[MinhDinh]

I bought one, and I can't seem to find the site to show you, but it was specifically for motorcycles.

Just google motorcycle first aid kit

It has so many things, but I have only taken it on one ride to Wallsall from London and back. They are simply too big and you really are unlikely to use it on yourself after a crash.
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[kingsknight]

yeah mine is one for a car, i would like one just for motorcycles to fit in my tank bag
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[L4Isoside]

Nah, I don't plan on getting one either.

If your injured then likely hood is your going to need an ambulance anyway, although may prove useful if you find someone who is injured?

Either way, there is no where I could fit it anyway

I think a more useful item would be dog tags for the medics

[neil.]

I have a small one in the top box, about the size of your hand, has bandage, dressings, wipes, plasters etc, got it for a few quid in Somerfield a while back.
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[Ariel Badger]

What use is the stuff in a first aid kit other than the triangular bandage? All I carry is a smamagh ( Arab scalf) that I wear anyway. Cuts do not need plasters and sterile dressings and bandages does not make sense of dirty injuries.
Mobile phone and first aid training are more important than kits IMHO. Bandages just give you something to fiddle with until the ambulance arrives and takes them all off again.
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[Kickstart]

Hi

We have a few small ones, although to be honest I wouldn't really know what to do with one (not done a first aid course in about 25 years). Survival blanket in the kit might be usable though.

All the best

Keith
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[Pernig]

Bought the RAC one from Argos a good while ago and topped that up with some other bits like plasters, paracetomol, a reflective safety blanket thing and some wipe things from the Lidl one.

It's for the bike but so far it has mainly come in handy at work and whilst working on the bike at home.

Ariel, I see your point about most of the stuff being useless. Using your initiative is just as important, like a paper bag to stop someone from hyper ventilating or even an old jumper or something to protect someone's head while they are having an epileptic fit.
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[kawakid]

I ride an ER6 at the moment and you can't fit a disk lock under the seat. Seriously you can't even fit a pen under the seat. Unbelievable crap design, I had an ER5 before and I could carry a 5' chain.

In the car I have a great big first aid kit which I acquired . Which even has things like scissors, survival blankets, eye wounds, compression thingies for burns.

Weird thing is I have no idea at all what to do with the stuff.

I never even took biology I really have no idea at all.
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[Pernig]

[stinkwheel]

After an incident earlier this year, I now carry a first aid kit of my own devising which is full of fucking usefull stuff instead of sticking plasters and a tin of germoline including:

2 airways, (big and small).
couple of big fuck-off 14g 2" hypodermic needles.
3-way tap.
50ml syringe.
2 artey forceps
small pot of hibiscrub.
pot of asprin
couple of prepacked sutures.
tube of superglue
big and small scalpel blade
three compressed triangular bandages
couple of big swabs wrapped in clingfilm.

I took more general stuff on my tour but that's my emergency kit. The above kit fits in a small bag the size of a carton of milk.

I would really like to add something to improvise a neck brace with but it would need to be small enough to fit under the seat on my VFR.
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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

Unless i can carry morphine, then what can a piddly 1st aid kit provide. Neck brace...splint..bandages..sticky plasters for gravel rash
I carry one of those cpr shields and some gloves, the rest i can improvise.... till they die......... or Tim arrives.


[edit] ying to my yang mr stinkwheel

Pat
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[Ariel Badger]

Do not put morphine in a kit. You want a casualty who is screaming out in agony. When you go quiet you need to panic, morphine makes them quiet.
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[LongJohn22]

Stinkwheel, just a thought, maybe you could adapt one of those "U" shaped inflateable pillow thingys you see on long distance flights. It could be made a little more rigid by wrapping bandage or tape around the outside to brace it.

[Bloke]

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

morphine was for me(terrible habit)

neck brace...gaffa tape.

Am i Dr Terror.BCh ...i think so.
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