Do you carry a FIRST AID kit in your car?

[Texasguy]

Unless you dive from a boat, my guess is that you arrive to the dive site in your car.

Thus, do you carry a first aid kit of any type? At least a band aid pack? Or oxygen, perhaps?

 

[Bobby]

Yes and Yes

 

[Imla]

Yes.
After working in an ER and the ambulance for a while my kit now contains the following: Ductape, 4"x4" dressings, a couple triangle shaped fabricpieces and gloves. No need for more.
And if going diving, Oxygen.

 

[BDSC]

I don't carry a first aid kit in my car but after seeing this thread and thinking about it, I'm going to get one. They are inexpensive and take up little room.

 

[Storker]

do you carry a first aid kit of any type?

Yes.

At least a band aid pack?

A little more than that.

For serious stuff, I have a couple of emergency bandages and my first aid/CPR training. To cover more mundane incidents, I have some non-prescription painkillers, medical wet wipes, band-aids, surgical tape, sports tape, compresses and strips. I also have a blanket or two in the trunk both for comfort if someone is a little cold, and for keeping any accident victims warm to reduce the risk of circulatory shock. If more is needed, that's a job for the paramedics.

oxygen, perhaps?

Only on organized club outings. But I have both the medical emergency number and the number to the local chamber on speed dial. If I travel outside cell phone coverage, I bring my hand-held VHF.

---------- Post added September 8th, 2015 at 01:37 PM ----------

Ductape, 4"x4" dressings, a couple triangle shaped fabricpieces and gloves.

I kind of like the emergency bandages that the military uses. I think they're easier to put on than loose dressings and duct tape. Also, I prefer sports tape over duct tape, I believe it's useful for more different (medical) incidents than duct tape is.

No need for more.

CPR training...

 

[tbone1004]

Yes and Yes

that. would carry an AED if I could afford one as well. Full first aid kid and a medical O2 bottle because I'm far too cheap to pay for DAN's O2 kits when you can get standard medical bottles for basically nothing on craigslist.

 

[archer1960]

Indirectly, yes. I pretty much always have my hiking backpack in the car, and have a first-aid kit in it.

 

[Neilwood]

Yes - have carried a FA kit in the car since I passed my test so I guess that is now about 25 years!

Consists of a rectangular ice cream tub with some triangular bandages, some dressings, a laerdal mask and scissors/torch/tweezers ie enough to get me through a small incident until emergency help arrives.

 

[bowlofpetunias]

First aid Kit, O2 system, Defib.... hubby keeps reminding me I don't drive an ambulance any more He threatened to get a light bar for the roof. I have had to use too many of the supplies for my liking over the years but I sure was glad to have it when it was needed.

 

[Searcaigh]

Yes and Yes sort off ..... my O2 is usually a 30cu ft bottle of EAN50.