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Preparedness Manual - Chapter 7
Emergency Medical Kit Supplies
Checklist

Using a military M17 medic bag as a benchmark, an expanded checklist is presented here. Certain items are generally considered to be available only via a doctors prescription. As a gentle reminder, first aid kits are no substitute for emergency first aid performed by professionals. Always seek professional assistance when available. If your kit has a planned use within a group of like-minded individuals, seek to include a member compatible with the group, who has EMT training and who will function as the groups medical go-to person.

Note:
Small items such as pills can be placed into small medication zip-lock carry bags. Using these bags makes it easy for you to buy in quantity and pack in your kit what you feel you need. Take great care to minimize any contamination of the material you repackage.

If you own a foodsaver machine you can easily store much more than normal in your emergency medical bag by vac sealing certain items you need. For example, all sterile gauze and bandage material can be repackaged by opening the box, remove the sealed and sterile plastic containers and then put the sealed plastic containers into a vac bag and vacseal the group. Much space is saved by compression and the contents are now water proof. Make sure contents are visible inside the bag and are recognizable, if not then write on the plastic bag with indelible marker it's contents with a date. You can also store multiple sealed bags for each bag component for long term use and resupply usage. Note, never remove an item from it's factory sealed plastic bagged container such as sterile gauze as it will no longer be sterile, vac seal the already sealed bags or I'll beat ya with a stick.

Your expanded M17 Kit contents include:

  • 1 4 oz. hand sanitizer
  • 1 hand soap
  • 1 12 oz. bottle saline solution for eye wash and wound irrigation
  • 1 eye wash-flush cup
  • 1 petroleum jelly
  • 1 burn spray
  • 1 splint
  • 2 field dressing 11" sq.
  • 1 field dressing 7.5"x8"
  • 4 6"x5" yds. confo. bdge.
  • 4 2"x6" yds. bdge. gauze
  • 4 6" elastic bdge.
  • 4 4"x4" sterile pads
  • 10 2"x2" sterile pads
  • 3 7.5"x 8" abdominal pads
  • 1 blood stopper kit
  • 2 eye pads, 2 triangular bdge.
  • 100 bdge. strip 3"x1"
  • 10 butterfly strip
  • 5 bdge strip 2"x3"
  • 5 knuckle bdge
  • 3 instant ice packs
  • 1 stethoscope
  • 1 blood pressure kit
  • 1 EMT shears
  • 2 hemostats
  • 1 tweezers
  • 1 skin probe
  • 1 scalpel hand #3
  • 2 scalpel blades
  • 1 scalpel handle w/ blade
  • 1 pen light
  • 2 suture set
  • 1 thermometer
  • 1 first aid book
  • 6 safety pins
  • 2 pill bottles
  • 4 pair latex gloves
  • 2 irrigation syringes
  • 2 roll of 1" tape
  • 15 alcohol wipes
  • 15 iodine PVP wipes
  • 15 antiseptic BZK wipes
  • 1 CPR mask
  • 2 airways
  • 1 tongue depressor
  • 5 lab sponges 32"x8"
  • 1 box of 100 cotton tips
  • 1 snake bite kit
Over the counter medications OTC
  • 2 ammonia inhalants OTC [or substitute]
  • 1 hydrogen peroxide 16 oz. - not food grade
  • 10 Stay awake pills OTC with caffeine
  • 10 Sleeping pills OTC [genric brands are OK]
  • 10 aspirin for pain
  • 10 anti-inflammatory OTC pills [ibuprofen contents]
  • 10 pain reliever OTC pills [ibuprofen contents]
  • 1 anti-histamine OTC inhaler / mister
  • 10 anti-histamine OTC pills
  • 1 colloidal silver OTC antibiotic - 2 oz. mister
  • 1 colloidal silver OTC antibiotic - 6 oz. with eye dropper
  • 1 burn cream,tube OTC
  • 1 poison plant [poison ivy-oak] scrub/wash OTC, products containing Grindelia work well
  • 1 itch-bite cream, tube OTC
  • 1 abrasion cream, tube OTC
  • 1 sun block 30+ tube OTC
  • 10 Activated charcoal capsules OTC anti toxin - poisin - see notes below
Prescription Components:
  • 2 ammonia inhalants
  • 1 anti-biotics full-term [common scrips]
  • 1 tube burn cream
  • 1 tube itch-bite cream
  • 1 tube abrasion cream
  • 10 anti-histamine pills
  • 1 anti-histamine inhaler-mister

Notes on OTC medications:

Ibuprofen contained OTC drugs such as Advil, Motrin, Nuprin, Medipren are a group of drugs called non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Ibuprofen is used to manage and reduce minor to moderate fever and treat pain or inflammation caused by many conditions such as headache, tooth ache, back pain, arthritis, menstrual cramps, minor injury including joint or muscle strains.

Stay-awake pills such as caffeine pills are used to keep people awake, this can be important for people suffering from certain exposure related injuries where you cannot afford to let their body shut down for sleep.

Sleeping pills are OTC pills used to help people go to sleep. This can be important for people with injuries or sicknesses that can be healed while sleeping, or people under stress who are unable to fall asleep when the situation allows for needed rest. All the OTC are similar so generic store brands work as good as brand names.

Activated Charcoal, powder is used for removing in varying degrees poisons and toxins from a person's system. In a SHTF event, removing toxins and even some form of poison may be important. The usefulness of A/C in a SHTF era are just too numerous to expand on here. I found that "buyactivatedcharcoal.com" to be very helpful in many ways and uses for A/C. They have everything you need, including lot's of information tried and proven for centuries.

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