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12I was going to post this in the deal thread, but figured I’d start a new one.
Anyone here take any courses from Crisis Medicine? I’d be interested to hear experiences if you have any before I commit money and time for training. They have some basic courses that are pretty reasonable and even one for kids that’s free. Taught by an emergency doc who is also a former Army special forces medic.
This whole Surviveware IFAK deal got me thinking that while I have had basic first aid and CPR/AED training (though it has been a while) both in food service and health care, I really feel it is a responsible thing to update my knowledge, hoping I never have to use it, of course (growing more unlikely, I know).
I did order these and will make an assessment (to the best of my ability) once I receive them. I’d encourage anyone else who gets one and has any kind of medical/first aid/emergency med experience to do the same. Your opinions will carry way more weight than mine.
One thing I did note is that the tourniquets are a CAT (Combat Application Tourniquet) look-alike (actually got sued for it) but the biggest issue noted was that there was not the systematic testing to prove effectiveness, like there is with the CAT ones. Doesn’t mean they don’t/won’t work, there’s just not the documented proof that they will or how reliably.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d be glad to have anything vs. nothing in the woods in an emergency, but I’d sure hate for it to catastrophically fail half way to the hospital. That’s where bad quality can kill.
Not a reason to not get these kits. If nothing, use it as a starting point, do some research, figure out what else you want in it and then be confident in what you have.
And the biggest thing this should do for you - go get knowledge! This stuff is NOT a first aid kit (OK, it does have first aid stuff in it, but that’s not what I mean). It is designed to literally save life and limb. There are reasons that there are training courses in this stuff - don’t just rely on figuring it out from the instructions. When you grab this kit, that’s not the time to be reading a manual.
Personally, I’m glad these came up.
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Honestly I wouldn’t go near that. Especially the kids stuff. Everything about that site/doctor/program reads like a money grab.
If you were going to do anything especially for the kids start with in person redcross CPR/first aid which is probably also free/done in school. If you want to continue get qualified as a first responder. In person. Not some BS web courses
@unksol thanks for the feedback. Not looking to go to the first responder level, but i would like to update my CPR, AED and first aid training, as well as learn proper use of a tourniquet, setting a splint, that kind of thing. Still pretty basic, but especially with the tourniquet, essential to do properly in an emergency.
@ybmuG splint is covered in red cross first aid. If you think you would ever need a tourniquet it sounds like not this one, I think learning to apply it in person, and if not I’m sure there are YouTube videos.
That price seemed way over what you just sign up for free at most fire stations…
@unksol thanks, I’ll try the fire house that’s literally close enough to walk to. And I’ve been looking into getting a CAT to add to the kit. If bet the web courses got a ton of business over the last few years and they’re trying to capitalize long term. Like you say, nothing like learning something you need to do hands on, hands on.
@ybmuG well I think they usually were the ones hosting the red cross classes. First responder training is probably on a volunteer basis. And may vary on your county. We have a lot of volunteer fire departments in this part of the country and some, if you’ll do an event or two a year and some meetings they’ll do training. Etc.
Regardless I think just straight up red cross firstaid/CPR is like 40-80 bucks? Not in Chicago but it defaulted around there
https://www.redcross.org/take-a-class/first-aid?latitude=41.8781136&longitude=-87.6297982&searchtype=class&zip=chicago%2C il
@unksol ironically, one of my clients (the one where I’m on site 2 days a week) just had first aid and CPR/AED training where the trainer came on site. Not that my client would have covered it, but i might have been able to get a deal if i had been thinking about it…
@unksol @ybmuG US Census did that for the office management teams for the 2000 count. It was a good idea.