Medical gear and preparedness….the dark side
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John is the co-owner of UW Gear, Inc, premier maker of tactical gear and equipment for those armed citizens working in rural environments. With the input of current serving and former Law Enforcement, Combat Infantry and Special Operations troops, his designs are geared towards working armed in unsupported environments. A former Florida National Guardsman, avid outdoorsman, Patriot and prepper, John tailors his gear to those who know preparedness doesn’t mean emulating the cover of tacticool magazines.
Thanks for the reality check. I’ve been in a hospital bed in an emergency ward, waiting for heart doctor to get some time to see me. Scary not knowing if you are going to survive the next hour.
Hope they get you squared away.
The point of having the equipment is to do the best that we can. Thats all you can do in any emergency.
Hawkeye, real world, 70’s Underground Uranium Mine in
Wyo , 1st you had your partner
under ground Each of you trained
at Red Cross Advanced, EMT 1,
without the Toys, You stabilize
your partner come out of mine
to get help, get partner out from under ground, load in Meat Wagon,. I mean ambulance for 1.5
hour ride to Hospital.Note no
chopper or aerial asssets.No body
dies on an Ambulance in Wyo.
But they were declared dead at Hospital. You do the best you can
with what you got. You plead the
blood and wall of Fire of Jesus
Christ around you and your Pard.
You Believe Gods Law is Real
and neccessary for your Eternal Salvation and also as per Prov:28
your prayers are only heard if you
beleve that, and still realize, there’s
a time to be born and a Time to
die and that might be today, Logged for 9 years also after getting out of the Corp, same shit,
currently in my 23 rd year of
Oilfield, RoughNeck, Derrick Hand,
And Snubbing Again same Shit.
I am Calvinist, Orthodox, Lutheran,
When its my Time to Go or Yours or Yours , Just like in the Corp
… Relax why die all tensed up.
back in basic teaching us how
a Marine sleeps , it was also we
die as a Marine … at the P. O. ofA.
ADJUST, at ease Marines.
Thank you for having the balls to come right out and speak the truth. This is one big reason I love this site and all you guys do. My group just lost our EMT guy, my brother in law. At 58 he just fell over dead from a heart attack and no med kit is going to help out with that. We had recently spoken about exactly what you just laid out.
As a former EMT-B, I have been speaking out to others about this exact set of problems. And been trying to find relevant sources of information and options. I have encountered lots of resistance to these problems. An example is when I asked if someone has planned for a medical evacuation scenario, they deny the need or have not thought it through. As a medic, through planning and training, we should work to develop options to provide immediate, prolonged field care, medical evacuation and definitive care before it goes bad. And that also includes field sanitation, water supplies and other issues related to health and safety!