First Aid kit

[Lawman]

If you were putting together a medium size diving first aid
kit for warm salt water, what would you include?

 

[gfisher4792]

If you were putting together a medium size diving first aid
kit for warm salt water, what would you include?

I've attached one of the diving checklists I've used (don't remember where I got it originally), but it's a good start.

 

[Lawman]

I see the list includes Gas-X. I guess that's to ward off the Warhammer
Maneuver.

 

[gfisher4792]

Wasn't this discussed earlier as a Farterial Embolism?

 

[SubMariner]

Wasn't this discussed earlier as a Farterial Embolism?

Remember this is a FAMILY board!

 

[cornfed]

If you were putting together a medium size diving first aid
kit for warm salt water, what would you include?

DAN makes several first aid kits and their personal one would probably be a good place to start. The prices are pretty high, but I think the contents are listed on their website. That should give you a good idea of what to include.

 

[Phaethon]

I was a bit scared by the inclusion of a meat tenderizer in gfisher4792's first aid kit! To me a meat tenderizer is a hammer with a spikey surface used to beat steaks to death with... surely there are easier ways of dispatching an injured diver? =8^0

(Okay, then I read the rest and realized it means a chemical tenderizer for treating stings, but the hammer image lingers, oh how it lingers...)

K.

 

[japan-diver]

Vinegar is a much better treatment than meat tenderizer for stings so I would change that.

 

[gfisher4792]

Vinegar is a much better treatment than meat tenderizer for stings so I would change that.

I agree with japan-diver. In my kit, I actually have a little squirt bottle filled with vinegar for stings.

 

[gfisher4792]

I was a bit scared by the inclusion of a meat tenderizer in gfisher4792's first aid kit! To me a meat tenderizer is a hammer with a spikey surface used to beat steaks to death with... surely there are easier ways of dispatching an injured diver? =8^0

(Okay, then I read the rest and realized it means a chemical tenderizer for treating stings, but the hammer image lingers, oh how it lingers...)

K.

Easier ways? Yes. Ways that are more fun? No.