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a stop-the-bleed kit is about a hundred bucks, buy a few. keep one in your home, one in your car, and a small one in your personal bag. there are groups in ever
by ruined 5y ago
a stop-the-bleed kit is about a hundred bucks, buy a few. keep one in your home, one in your car, and a small one in your personal bag. there are groups in every city that offer free training, oriented mainly towards activists and firearms hobbyists, but it's available. the training is useful for many kinds of bleeding, not just gunshot wounds.
- giardini 5y agoAre "bleed kits" worth the cost? You'll likely never need one and it will be lost/defunct after a few years (due to heat & moisture). Kit or no, you need a first aid class and a first aid kit. Rather than another expenditure and one more gadget to keep track of, stay with the basics. Otherwise people will buy a "bleed kit" on Amazon and toss it in the trunk, thinking that they're fully prepared for an automobile accident or such. When an accident does occur, they may or may not remember the kit, take it out and read the instructions manual. Meanwhile someone will die b/c the kit owner wasn't educated enough to "apply pressure to the wound." [Cue spammers citing questionable personal anecdotes where a "bleed kit" in a car trunk saved them from amputation/death.]
- ruined 5y agodo you argue against seat belts and epi pens the same way?