No eye bath in Cat C first aid kit

[chrishelen]

?

For the sake of 20 pence worth of plastic.

Diesel, petrol, pepper, deo spray in eye. I can think of plenty of things on boat that I would like to wash out of my eye. Cat C kits are poor value for money.

horses for courses, I would expect an eye wash in a engineering workshop or that sort of environment, but I suppose they must draw the line somewhere....I agree tho that they are vastly overpriced for what is in them..but you get them for your commercial code and a cheapo one for real life.

 

[Kurrawong_Kid]

Is not a saline solution of sterile water in an eggcup just as good as a proprietary brand?

horses for courses, I would expect an eye wash in a engineering workshop or that sort of environment, but I suppose they must draw the line somewhere....I agree tho that they are vastly overpriced for what is in them..but you get them for your commercial code and a cheapo one for real life.

 

[chrishelen]

Is not a saline solution of sterile water in an eggcup just as good as a proprietary brand?

I guess it needs to come in a sterile wrapper or some people wont use it

 

[prv]

As it happens I do have a bottle of eyewash in my (home-assembled) medical kit. I suppose I was thinking of squirts of battery acid or other noxious substances, but after adding it to the list I realised it could also be useful for cleaning out wounds etc.

Pete

 

[PilotWolf]

Definitely not for amateur use those - even trained paramedics sometimes get inserting them wrong.

The gold standard is the Laerdal or similar mask, but a plastic bag with a small hole will do if you really don't fancy snogging the victim and you've nothing better.

Plain chest compressions are Ok for a "normal" cardiac arrest - heart attack or whatever, but for drowning or choking victims, starting with rescue breaths is still the standard protocol and they need to be started ASAP, not after you've spent 10 minutes rummaging through a locker for your first aid kit.

Really?

These are very simple and easy to use devices.

As an ex paramedic (but still UK registered) if any member of the ambulance service couldn't use these I'd be appalled and very quickly in the 'manager's' office demanding that the person that couldn't use them be removed from duty immediately.

The gold standard is endotracheal intubation and a ventilator.
PW

 

[IJL]

The important factor in washing eyes is volume, you would better with a bottle of eye wash or a bottle of water than those little eye baths.

For cpr a pocket mask is good, but to be brutally honest with if some has a genuine cardiac arrest (as opposed to a faint/collapse etc) and the boat is not tied up, their not going to survive. The advanced life support courses used to state that survival rate after a VF arrest declines at 10% per minute until a defib is used.