The Ultimate Wacker Kit (no Joke) 5k Spent On It

[Richard B the EMT]

Ok..... what happened to just MacGyvering it!!! Use your brain and think about what you have around you to work with [paper clip, pocket knife, gum raper (things MacGyver used)

I think MacGyver would have used the spell check with that word, but point taken. As a case in point, I have splinted with the entertainment section of a Sunday New York Times newspaper. I have also temporarily used the foil from a gum wrapper as a car fuse, which is definitively NOT recommended.

[csly27]

This guy's a freakin' idiot.

You don't want this kit. It is proof again that money and brains don't necessarily go together. He's raided the local CVS for a lot of crap that has very little utility for the purpose it is meant to serve. Let's hear it for the marketing department at Bayer, J&J, etc.

Crap he doesn't need:

First Aid Cream

Hydrogen peroxide bottle

Saline for irrigation. Tap water or water that has been made safe to drink will suffice.

Lots of Quikclot

Fluorescein dye strips for the eye, but where is the UV light?

Bite/sting extractor kit

Activated charcoal capsules

Plastic eye shield

Eye dressings

Eye wash

How many freakin' tubes of Orabase does he need?

Eyewash cup

Post midriatic sunglasses

Finger splints

Sting relief pen, sting relief cream

Poison ivy sting relief spray (how many different products with benzocaine does he need?)

Burn gel

2 tick removers?!

Trauma shears, bandage scissors, folding scissors... How many pairs of scissors do you need?

Cold compresses, too many, too heavy.

Let's not forget the 9line card, not that he would have any ability to call in a 9 line to anyone.

Lens cloths?!

Fenestrated drape. He's got one. a) you don't really need it, and he's got wound care supplies for lots of wounds, so why only one disposable drape?

Nail polish remover wipes, yet he doesn't have a pulse ox. So who cares if there is nail polish?

Separate forceps and sutures for suture removal. Why not just use what you have in the wound care kit?

300mg vial of injectable morphine, but no narcan. Let me know how that works out.

Oh look, more Quikclot.

Emergency intubation kit. I don't know if it's occurred to anyone here that a) unlikely he's ever intubated or really been trained to, and how will you manage the casualty once intubated in the absence of a medical facility/ventilator?

Ammonia inhalants. How quaint.

4 different sizes of gauze pads

Cinch tight bandage, H&H bandage, Israeli dressing, how many different combat bandages do you need?

Meds: I have never prescribed 8mg dilaudid tablets to anyone. Ever.

MS contin is horribly dangerous in untrained hands.

Way too little non-narcotic pain control in the way of tylenol and motrin.

Why have Cipro and Levaquin? Levaquin dose too low to treat pneumonia.

Throat lozenges?

Why have a sphygmomanometer if you have no means to treat altered blood pressure?

ENT kit, without the knowledge of how to examine eyes or treat any condition you find. Ditto for ears. I don't see any cortisporin or alligator forceps.

What is with all the Vionex wipes in every compartment?

IFAK. So we've got yet another tourniquet, combat dressing, gauze, etc. Straight from the Department of Redundancy Department.

More ET tube stylets than ET tubes

Oxygen masks. Without oxygen.

Hextend. Mighty pricy.

OB kit is unnecessary with all the other stuff in this kit, with the only exception of the cord clamps and bulb suction.

3 different types of combat tourniquet

Wait, look, MORE SCISSORS.

ALL different sizes of Bandaids

No means to purify water.

No means to make fire.

Way too little in the way of antibiotics. He has one 7 day course of Cipro and 2 7 day courses of Levaquin.

You need one set of scissors and a knife.

Not much in the way of light.

Bottom line: too much weight and cube and money wasted on snivel care, with very little thought to sustainable medical care in the absence of available resources in TEOTWAWKI scenario. This bag is a soup sandwich and a monster waste.

'zilla

Lol dont forget he had some floss in there, mabey he wants to be a dentist as well, when he is all done with whoever, he is gonna help their teeth too. I can understand have a few basic things but come on that is a bit much.

[Richard B the EMT]

I just thought of something: How much does this thing weigh? Is anybody going to backpack it in cross country, use a pack animal, or rent a tractor/double trailer truck rig?

[nari]

No words, its so so so sad.

[spenac]

I think MacGyver would have used the spell check with that word, but point taken. As a case in point, I have splinted with the entertainment section of a Sunday New York Times newspaper. I have also temporarily used the foil from a gum wrapper as a car fuse, which is definitively NOT recommended.

Me to. Got a nice smokey effect one time with the foil over the fuse. Other times it got me home.

[VentMedic]

You guys do know that Blackwater owns that bag? Correct? That is their name and their logo on the bag. These pictures can probably be found on their websites.

[spenac]

You guys do know that Blackwater owns that bag? Correct? That is their name and their logo on the bag. These pictures can probably be found on their websites.

Well who better to fight zombies than mercenarys?

[itku2er]

I think we should all chip in and buy ECHOBURGER one of these kits. *looks through purse dang here is my 2 cents! anyone else?*

[spenac]

I think we should all chip in and buy ECHOBURGER one of these kits. *looks through purse dang here is my 2 cents! anyone else?*

I can chip in some belly button lint.

[itku2er]

I can chip in some belly button lint.

How much is that worth on the street? Maybe we should all buy one of these just incase we need it its better to have something and not need it than need it and not have it.