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You can also use a blood pressure cuff and a pair of hemostats to slow bleeding on an extremity. You pump up the cuff and clamp the rubber hose with the hemostats if it starts to leak. You can then slow the bleeding alternating with releasing the pressure to allow blood flow to surrounding tissue as needed. The pumped up blood pressure cuff also can be used to find a vein in a "hard stick" situation.
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We are not as well equiped as rmpl but a great deal of good things fit into a couple of the very large Tackle boxes, nicely organized and in seperate lil trays, keeps things well org'd and I CAN find the bandaids!!!Do the right thing, because it is the right thing to do!Comment
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In my survival wilderness medical class we were taught that using a regular kitchen pressure cooker, even over an open fire, was an autoclave - 10 minutes at 10 pounds pressure does the sterilization just fine. For long term sterile storage pre-packs, make your bandages, wraps, etc. seal in vacumn packs, and then run through the pressure cooker - viola - shelf stable sterile stuff, ready to open and use.Comment
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