Re: First Aid kit - expiration of items?

On Tue, 6 May 2008 01:19:33 +0100, alan.frame@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (AF) wrote:


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>(3) The serious stuff, involving prescription droogs & ****ps Captains
>Medical Guide for childbirth and death at sea....
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>rgds, Alan

Well, I have been on a First Aid course that assumed that you might be
days away from a doctor in the worst case, though probably able to get
medical advice via a radio. The First Aid manual includes little
matters like how and when to decide someone had died, and what to do
with the body! Oh, and like the HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy, the
pocket version has "Don't Panic!" on the cover! The first aid kit
contained a full three stage pain relief package ( that means
everything up to and including morphine), airway tubes (Goedel), and
so on and so on, including a lot of items to be used under radio
direction from a medic.  I really, really hope I never need the
knowledge, but it is comforting to have it! 

The course ended with a long practical session using people who
volunteered to be made up as if they had dreadful injuries. Horribly
life-like, but very effective - the lady who pretended to have
Hypothermia made you really realize how difficult it might be to
handle a real case! For those who don't know, hypothermia victims
aren't rational, and often feel as if they are too hot, so they fling
off clothes. The volunteers were so realistic that it was hard to
remember they weren't really injured; I got terribly embarassed after
man-handling a young woman who was supposed to have a belly wound!

For me, the problem is that I can't GET a first-aid kit that would
enable me to use the training I have - too many restricted or
prescription only items.