Thread: Supplementing Store-Bought First Aid Kit

I generally regularly replace the duct tape on my poles every season - and have used it late in a season to work fine. Having just taken a WFR course, I can tell you I am not running out and adding a ton to my first aid kit - in fact, likely the opposite. There is stuff in there I don't think I need to stabalize and evac, and a couple of small things I want to add for addressing stuff in the field where we want to stay out. For example, those clear bandages that are basically waterproof weigh nothing and you basically can just put on a big cut and keep going for the rest of the multi-day trip. In the past I would have addressed that with gauze and likely tape (likely duct tape), but I would have to take off every couple of days to check out the wound, etc...

On on a side note, WFR course was awesome.

Honestly the biggest thing WFR courses add to my first aid kit is a big bundle of be very careful. And be prepared to survive a night.

For the medical professionals out there (I realize everyone is a dentist but there must be some docs and nurses and PA's) the Wilderness Medicine Society is doing a course at Squaw late August. It covers a lot of stuff besides mountains, but there's a lot of good info relevant to the mountains, including stuff like what to take when you're the doc on a serious expedition. One of the instructors is a doc named Howard Donner, who lives at Donner Lake last I looked (don't know if he's related)--really good instructor and I stole most of my ideas from him.

Originally Posted by old goat

For the medical professionals out there (I realize everyone is a dentist but there must be some docs and nurses and PA's) the Wilderness Medicine Society is doing a course at Squaw late August. It covers a lot of stuff besides mountains, but there's a lot of good info relevant to the mountains, including stuff like what to take when you're the doc on a serious expedition. One of the instructors is a doc named Howard Donner, who lives at Donner Lake last I looked (don't know if he's related)--really good instructor and I stole most of my ideas from him.

Do you have anymore info on this course? Looked on their website and didn't find anything.

Originally Posted by AKPogue

Do you have anymore info on this course? Looked on their website and didn't find anything.

My bad--the sponsor is wilderness medicine.com, not the wilderness medical society. Don't know if there's any affiliation but they're located in diffeent states. The course I went to was wilderness medicine.com--in Santa Fe

http://www.wilderness-medicine.com/default.asp?pg=squaw

I don't carry anything I usually just recreate with an ER doc cuz he always has the 1st aid ... last aid too