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after recent minor incident opened the first aid kit to find a collection of bandages well past their prime and plasters which lost stickyness years ago.
The entire box historic collection of old out of date junk with nothing thrown away from earlier kits.Container held shut with Sellotape.

From those you well organised and constantly on the button folks what do you keep aboard in the way of first aid kit.
Boat mostly hugging the shore and max of 6 souls aboard.
Kit mostly used to stop profuse bleeding from minor injuries while mending boat with totally inappropiate tools.
Suggestions.
 
My boat has an extensive toolkit all of it's own. Nothing more irritating than parking a job 99% done for want of a tool in your home garage. As for medical aid box I use a more upscale motor vehicle one for vehicle emergencies and the wife compliments it with all the bits and bobs you may find in a home medicine cabinet. Changed once yearly.

I also keep a half kilo brick of bees wax onboard. Just in case a standard size plug wont fill a unexpected hole.
 
I find separate finger plasters are the most useful for me. I do tend to nick/cut my digits once in a while. The most infuriating thing about these things are getting them unwrapped and secured around a cut without dripping blood everywhere. Packets could certainly do with better design.
Other than that I must admit I have never had to use most of the contents of my standard issue First Aid kit. Probably got a spare arm sling you are welcome to.
 
I feel like an auxiliary ship most of the time, think I could strip down the entire boat and rebuild with what I have aboard..

First aid kit also is quite sizable, its started off with something resembling one of these;
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JFA-Larg...918408&hash=item3aebd31e41:g:i1UAAOSwcYZZeLG~

But I have added a few things, which I would recommend, a comprehensive Burns kit, Eye wash kit, spray & cream to treat insect & jelly fish stings, a load of antiseptic wipes and antiseptic wash , more plasters and an iodine spray, and pain relieve tablets... not planning to bring back the dead, but all items have been used to some degree at some point or another... also a large quantity of alcohol, to celebrate the first aid treatment administered.
 
BruceK said:
My boat has an extensive toolkit all of it's own. Nothing more irritating than parking a job 99% done for want of a tool in your home garage. As for medical aid box I use a more upscale motor vehicle one for vehicle emergencies and the wife compliments it with all the bits and bobs you may find in a home medicine cabinet. Changed once yearly.

I also keep a half kilo brick of bees wax onboard. Just in case a standard size plug wont fill a unexpected hole.
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OMG! :biggrin-new:

WE have multiple useless boxes. SWMBO always opens a new box of plasters never looks in the one(s) already opened I bought a BOGO offer and had 2 first aid boxes, both now opened and contents re-distributed in multiple locations across cars and home. plasters not sticky when new, so need to buy better ones then they can tear skin on removal. Boxes of various sizes/types means none of the right size/type. Pads and stretchy stick to itself crepe type tape works on most jobs. I think the ready made kits are there to allow the maker to get rid of all their unused, useless stock.:ambivalence:
 
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Firefly625 said:
I feel like an auxiliary ship most of the time, think I could strip down the entire boat and rebuild with what I have aboard..

First aid kit also is quite sizable, its started off with something resembling one of these;
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JFA-Larg...918408&hash=item3aebd31e41:g:i1UAAOSwcYZZeLG~

I like that one - looks like a paramedic! I got mine for a similar price but a lot smaller form a Palma pharmacy!

But I have added a few things, which I would recommend, a comprehensive Burns kit, Eye wash kit, spray & cream to treat insect & jelly fish stings, a load of antiseptic wipes and antiseptic wash , more plasters and an iodine spray, and pain relieve tablets... not planning to bring back the dead, but all items have been used to some degree at some point or another... also a large quantity of alcohol, to celebrate the first aid treatment administered.
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Robin said:
OMG! :biggrin-new:

WE have multiple useless boxes. SWMBO always opens a new box of plasters never looks in the one(s) already opened I bought a BOGO offer and had 2 first aid boxes, both now opened and contents re-distributed in multiple locations across cars and home. plasters not sticky when new, so need to buy better ones then they can tear skin on removal. Boxes of various sizes/types means none of the right size/type. Pads and stretchy stick to itself crepe type tape works on most jobs. I think the ready made kits are there to allow the maker to get rid of all their unused, useless stock.:ambivalence:
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You may well laugh but I witnessed a couple times yachts that hit a steel channel buoy during a night passage at what? 3-5 knts? They were holed at the waterline. You wouldn't credit it but there you go. I want something I can plug a gap with if at all possible because I can go a lot faster and carry more momentum even at their speeds.

The theory being you warm the wax until it's pliable and the cold water sets it off once you've squeezed it through a crack / hole. Granted it wont fill a big hole or even one well below the waterline, but something has to be better than nothing.
 
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oldgit said:
what do you keep aboard in the way of first aid kit.
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On top of the standard kit ,for up to 50 miles ( I think off ) shore an extra bag
Local anaesthetic, with and without adrenaline , disposable neddles + syringe to admin it , sutures , scalpel, IV i fusion lines , Hartman’s solution , to replace fluid volumes if necessary - mitigate against shock
1ml 1/1000 Adrenalin + syringes- for anaphylactic shock .
Salbutamol for asthma
GTN spray for cardiac ischemic events
Midazolam for epileptic events and other sedative uses - IV
Suture needles silk and dissolvable for deeper wounds .

Hoping not to have a busmans holiday any :)time soon btw .

But I would feel I would be short changing a casualty if ^^^ of the above saved a life ——-
 
Portofino said:
On top of the standard kit ,for up to 50 miles ( I think off ) shore an extra bag
Local anaesthetic, with and without adrenaline , disposable neddles + syringe to admin it , sutures , scalpel, IV i fusion lines , Hartman’s solution , to replace fluid volumes if necessary - mitigate against shock
1ml 1/1000 Adrenalin + syringes- for anaphylactic shock .
Salbutamol for asthma
GTN spray for cardiac ischemic events
Midazolam for epileptic events and other sedative uses - IV
Suture needles silk and dissolvable for deeper wounds .

Hoping not to have a busmans holiday any :)time soon btw .

But I would feel I would be short changing a casualty if ^^^ of the above saved a life ——-
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Can you buy injectable medication in the Uk?
 
H,mm this lead me to check kits both home and work.....
Appears we have a lovingly preserved vast collection of bandages which expired 13 years ago at home.
The most recent addition would seem to be a set of very attractive
"Paw Patrol "plasters.
Took the opportunity to clear out a load of the wifes goos and unguents,some dating from when we were first married.
Fortunately she does not read this forum.
 
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On the boat I have a large First Aid Kit, in my home a "handy-size domestic kit" and in my car a BMW supplied kit.
The former must be at least 40 years old and the latter at least twenty.
Neither have I ever needed to use, at all, in that time.
The home kit I've used a couple of times, mainly through cutting hands/fingers with blunt knives.

Having read the foregoing posts I am now worried that I've "let the genie out of the bottle".

Time to re-evaluate my First Aid provisions and practices, methinks.

Thanks for the "heads-up".
 
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