How to build a home trauma kit you will actually open
Park it by the door you use. Label it. Practice gloves and gauze on a Saturday, not during the call.
- Buy one quality tourniquet from a known maker — cheap copies fail.
- Add packed gauze, chest seals only if you have trained for them, nitrile gloves, shears.
- Write a 3-line card: call 911, where the kit is, who in the house is trained.
- Take a class. Then open the kit once a year and replace dated items.
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