MonacoMike
Well-Known Member
- Sep 15, 2009
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- Boat Info
- 2000 Cruisers 3870
8.2 Mercs
- Engines
- 85 Sea Ray Monaco 197
260hp Alpha 1
What do you have for a first aid kit to save your life? Save your broken or damaged apendage? Save your boating day?
Hopefully, you are not saying "my cell phone", relying on a $20 big box store first aid kit, or a 10 year old dried out formely water soaked first aid kit.
Boating is one of the most dangerious activities one can partake in and it is also one of the least accessable to first responders. (Particulaly for coastal boaters.) Than means you better be self sufficient. I have no idea how I might use a scalpel but the ER Doc on the VHF may be able to tell me. Think of all the danger on your vessel. The number one is falls and the resulting broken bones. How will you stabilize a broken arm? I have a small assortment of casts for that. What about burns? I have moleskin for that.
Think of all the danger onboard. The falls already mentioned, chemical burns, fire or hot surface burns, cuts from loss of limb to a paper cut, insects stings and bites, heat stroke, and we have not even touched on human sickness. Dramamine has saved a boating day for us more than once when a guest had an upset stomach.
I used a Zee Medical "First Responder Kit" as my base and added the everyday type things to it as well as a few major items not in the kit such as scalpel, casts and moleskin.
http://www.zeemedical.com/us/1_02-kits/6626.html
So check that kit before you launch and make sure it is the kit you want when all hell breaks loose and stop being a cheap azz...
(I have often asked dock mates what they carry for first aid so I know what you likely have)
If I can find my list easy I will post it here. (i keep copies on the boat to mark what needs to be replaced)
MM
Hopefully, you are not saying "my cell phone", relying on a $20 big box store first aid kit, or a 10 year old dried out formely water soaked first aid kit.
Boating is one of the most dangerious activities one can partake in and it is also one of the least accessable to first responders. (Particulaly for coastal boaters.) Than means you better be self sufficient. I have no idea how I might use a scalpel but the ER Doc on the VHF may be able to tell me. Think of all the danger on your vessel. The number one is falls and the resulting broken bones. How will you stabilize a broken arm? I have a small assortment of casts for that. What about burns? I have moleskin for that.
Think of all the danger onboard. The falls already mentioned, chemical burns, fire or hot surface burns, cuts from loss of limb to a paper cut, insects stings and bites, heat stroke, and we have not even touched on human sickness. Dramamine has saved a boating day for us more than once when a guest had an upset stomach.
I used a Zee Medical "First Responder Kit" as my base and added the everyday type things to it as well as a few major items not in the kit such as scalpel, casts and moleskin.
http://www.zeemedical.com/us/1_02-kits/6626.html
So check that kit before you launch and make sure it is the kit you want when all hell breaks loose and stop being a cheap azz...
(I have often asked dock mates what they carry for first aid so I know what you likely have)
If I can find my list easy I will post it here. (i keep copies on the boat to mark what needs to be replaced)
MM