Re: First Aid kit - expiration of items?

TonyB wrote:

> True life saving first aid can pretty much be done with your hands
unless
> you're a doctor with a medical pack aboard. In mine I ought to put some
> airways
> and IV cannulae, but that's only because I can use 'em, although anyone
> can swot up on airways and have a go - if the patient is going to
> die anyway you can't do much harm.

I suppose that's true, but our have-a-go hero might have mis-*****sed
whether the patient really was going to "die anyway".  For all we know
he might have recovered unaided, had he not died from the consequences
of being stabbed in the throat with a biro.