I used one once, was at knackers and busted a knuckle somehow. I looked around the car I was working on an found that someone had already spilled the kit around, probably getting the scissors or triangular bandages, so I used one of the old bandages to stem the bleeding on my hand and keep working. Probably a twenty year-old bandage, worked just fine for the hour or two I needed it.
When our daughter was younger, she managed to cut herself or scrape herself several times while on road trips, nothing band-aid worthy if those wounds happened to me, but to a crying little girl it was pure relief to put on a band-aid and make it all better. When I was some place hot and sandy, we had kits with this magic coagulating powder that would stem any bleeding, up to and including a femoral artery. The training for use of the kit included watching a film of a pig strapped down on its back and someone slicing opening the big artery in the pigs groin going to its back leg, blood squirts about 3 or 4 feet in the air, pulses a couple times, then same guy that sliced the artery rips open the magic powder packet and just dumps it on the gaping wound, and the bleeding stopped instantly. Quite impressive, glad I never needed to use that one. Supposed to leave a really bad scar, but I'd rather have life and scars. ------------- Max Charleston SC On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > The whole idea is to NEVER need to use it. Just like a rare comic book > that's never even been opened. > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
