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Seriously, only put in your kit what you know how to use.
As a backpacker I carried an off the shelf one I got at REI. I then went to a 1 hour talk at an outdoor show and he said go home and take out everything you don't know how to use. All I had left was band-aids.
I then took a two day class on wilderness medicine from NOLS (http://www.nols.edu/). I still want to take the med class RDA listed a few times, but I never saw they actually offered it. I think part of that was gun shot would care.
I have one for my house, one for my range bag, and one for my backpack.
Here is a pretty complete list for me (link below). A med kit for amateur's is like a get home bag compared to a bug out bag. The get home's purpose is not to live on, but sustain you until you can get home. The med kit is to help you stabilize until you can get help or get out, not allow you to administer medicine. The four questions your kit has to help you answer in this order are 1) can you breath, 2) are you in danger of further injury 3) are you bleeding, and 4) can you move...add this fifth question if you are helping someone else 5) are you putting yourself at risk? You can't help an injured person if you are injured yourself.
In that light here is the kit and categories I look at, and this list is pretty much my kit, plus a sam splint (http://rivergear.com/images/D/file_31_3.jpg) when I am trekking.
Wounds, blisters, sprains, and medications. http://www.nols.edu/alumni/leader/06fall...id_kit.pdf
As a backpacker I carried an off the shelf one I got at REI. I then went to a 1 hour talk at an outdoor show and he said go home and take out everything you don't know how to use. All I had left was band-aids.
I then took a two day class on wilderness medicine from NOLS (http://www.nols.edu/). I still want to take the med class RDA listed a few times, but I never saw they actually offered it. I think part of that was gun shot would care.
I have one for my house, one for my range bag, and one for my backpack.
Here is a pretty complete list for me (link below). A med kit for amateur's is like a get home bag compared to a bug out bag. The get home's purpose is not to live on, but sustain you until you can get home. The med kit is to help you stabilize until you can get help or get out, not allow you to administer medicine. The four questions your kit has to help you answer in this order are 1) can you breath, 2) are you in danger of further injury 3) are you bleeding, and 4) can you move...add this fifth question if you are helping someone else 5) are you putting yourself at risk? You can't help an injured person if you are injured yourself.
In that light here is the kit and categories I look at, and this list is pretty much my kit, plus a sam splint (http://rivergear.com/images/D/file_31_3.jpg) when I am trekking.
Wounds, blisters, sprains, and medications. http://www.nols.edu/alumni/leader/06fall...id_kit.pdf
As a backpacker I carried an off the shelf one I got at REI. I then went to a 1 hour talk at an outdoor show and he said go home and take out everything you don't know how to use. All I had left was band-aids.
I then took a two day class on wilderness medicine from NOLS (http://www.nols.edu/). I still want to take the med class RDA listed a few times, but I never saw they actually offered it. I think part of that was gun shot would care.
I have one for my house, one for my range bag, and one for my backpack.
Here is a pretty complete list for me (link below). A med kit for amateur's is like a get home bag compared to a bug out bag. The get home's purpose is not to live on, but sustain you until you can get home. The med kit is to help you stabilize until you can get help or get out, not allow you to administer medicine. The four questions your kit has to help you answer in this order are 1) can you breath, 2) are you in danger of further injury 3) are you bleeding, and 4) can you move...add this fifth question if you are helping someone else 5) are you putting yourself at risk? You can't help an injured person if you are injured yourself.
In that light here is the kit and categories I look at, and this list is pretty much my kit, plus a sam splint (http://rivergear.com/images/D/file_31_3.jpg) when I am trekking.
Wounds, blisters, sprains, and medications. http://www.nols.edu/alumni/leader/06fall...id_kit.pdf