[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

The maxi-pads as sterile compression bandages, I presume. Would these be any better?

This product would not replace the maxi pads. It would replace the tampons.

Not at JW here, but FYI for the uninformed: Tampons are sealed and sterile and you can use the applicator to get the tampon into a gunshot wound nice and easy instead of doing it by-the-book and having some turd painfully shove gauze into the wound. They also have that handy little string so a surgeon can easily remove them instead of having to go fishing around inside the wound to pull out any loose gauze.

They, and maxi-pads, are also primarily designed to absorb blood. People think I'm odd, but I always have a couple in my first aid kits.

[BartSimpson]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

I'll buy that. Any wound big enough to accept a tampon is probably close to fatal, anyway. I suppose that the exit wound from even a smallish round is that big, though.

7.62mm makes a wound big enough to get a small tampon into it. There's a number of small tampons on the market that work just fine. Even if someone takes a .50 you can always insert a small tampon and count on it to swell enough to fill the wound and staunch the bleeding.

If you have a go-bag or first aid kit at home I'd suggest augmenting it with some small tampons for just this purpose. Not like most people would ever get shot, but how cheap is a tampon that you shouldn't put one or two in your kit?

If you work in construction I'd advise to keep these handy just in case you fall on rebar or something like that.

[ShepherdsDog]

i also have duct tape, crazy glue and saran wrap in a first aid kit, along with pads

[BartSimpson]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

i also have duct tape, crazy glue and saran wrap

Which don't do much for internal bleeding. A tampon inside a GSW can stop almost all of the internal bleeding it comes into contact with.

Unless you stop the internal bleeding it's better to just let a chest or abdominal wound bleed somewhat instead of letting the abdominal pressure increase to where the lungs collapse.

[ShepherdsDog]

where I live gunshot wounds aren`t a major concern....car accidents are. the duct tape and saran wrap are just in case there is a sucking chest wounds

[Jabberwalker]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

I'll buy that. Any wound big enough to accept a tampon is probably close to fatal, anyway. I suppose that the exit wound from even a smallish round is that big, though.

7.62mm makes a wound big enough to get a small tampon into it. There's a number of small tampons on the market that work just fine. Even if someone takes a .50 you can always insert a small tampon and count on it to swell enough to fill the wound and staunch the bleeding.

If you have a go-bag or first aid kit at home I'd suggest augmenting it with some small tampons for just this purpose. Not like most people would ever get shot, but how cheap is a tampon that you shouldn't put one or two in your kit?

If you work in construction I'd advise to keep these handy just in case you fall on rebar or something like that.

I used to have a couple of maxipads as sterile compress bandages in my sailing first aid kit. I'm not in a situation where getting shot is even a remote possibility (touch wood) though.

I'm frequently on and off construction sites but always as a guest of the G.C. and it's their responsibility to get me off the site alive. They are regulated up the yin-yang and they have far more extensive first aid supplies than I've ever needed. Stuff does happen, though. Just last month, a worker was killed just down the road from where I live when a steel web joist system that was being installed failed and an I-beam crushed a tradesman.

[BartSimpson]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

Just last month, a worker was killed just down the road from where I live when a steel web joist system that was being installed failed and an I-beam crushed a tradesman.

Yeah, you just need a Sham-Wow for that!

[Public_Domain]

[DrCaleb]

Public_Domain Public_Domain:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

7.62mm makes a wound big enough to get a small tampon into it. There's a number of small tampons on the market that work just fine. Even if someone takes a .50 you can always insert a small tampon and count on it to swell enough to fill the wound and staunch the bleeding.

I think I could live without knowing some things...

You might also not live if you don't know some things. First Aid is one of them.

It sucks, but life is squishy and smelly too.

[Public_Domain]

[DrCaleb]

And they say the youth of today are lazy.

By the time I was 12, I already was a Boy Scout 'Sixer' with a whole sash of badges, including St. John's Ambulance First Aid and several Winter Camping stints at 30 and 40 below.

As they say young sir, "The Revolution will not be televised".

[Public_Domain]

[DrCaleb]

Public_Domain Public_Domain:

I don't think they collaborate with schools anymore, I guess?

No idea. I don't have kids, so being an older guy I tend not to hang around schools as that raises many eyebrows. Same reason I stopped playing Warhammer. An older single guy hanging with teenage boys wierds some people out.

But as kids, my mom donated a lot of time to various organizations, and Girl Guides / Boy Scouts was a major portion of her time. So, I got a lot of exposure to those organizations. I'm sure they are still around, I just am not involved any more.

[ShepherdsDog]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Public_Domain Public_Domain:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

7.62mm makes a wound big enough to get a small tampon into it. There's a number of small tampons on the market that work just fine. Even if someone takes a .50 you can always insert a small tampon and count on it to swell enough to fill the wound and staunch the bleeding.

I think I could live without knowing some things...

You might also not live if you don't know some things. First Aid is one of them.

It sucks, but life is squishy and smelly too.

tell me about it....I had to be right there during the birth of our youngest....I mean right there, with a view even my wife didn`t have to endure. The two doctors were women as were the three nurses(St B in Wpg is a training hospital)....so no escape for me

[desertdude]

Anybody remember a sci fi film where they had a pink foam kind of stuff they would fill in a wound and it would get close it up, for the life of me I can't remember its name or what it was about !!

I thought this was going to be something similar.