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Skin stapler for emergency kit?

andrewsw16andrewsw16 Member Posts: 10,728 ✭✭✭
edited May 2017 in General Discussion
Any opinions about including this in a survival medical kit? I am thinking of one like they used on Patrick Swayze in Road House or Matt Damon in The Martian. Some I have talked to like the idea even for their hunting dogs in the case of gashes while out away from easy access to a vet. That got me thinking about use on humans by amateurs in an emergency. I don't know how good I would be with emergency sutures on myself or my family but I could probably handle a stapler. Some of you are a lot better informed on prepping issues than me and I am interested in your opinions. They are pretty inexpensive so I am considering adding one to my emergency kit.[:)]
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  • tangaratangara Member Posts: 133 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Why not use dental floss and a needle? They come in small containers and take up little space.
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  • RobOzRobOz Member Posts: 9,523 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ethicon Proximate and Davis and Geck Advan would be a good place to start. Personally, I would just source some 3M Steri Strips.
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  • gunnut505gunnut505 Member Posts: 10,290 ✭
    edited November -1
    Super glue.
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  • MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Closing a gaping wound in the field seems to be a bad idea. From what I've heard, simply wrapping the wound to hold it and keep more dirt from getting in is the way to go.
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  • mjrfd99mjrfd99 Member Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bleeding? stop or slow. First direct pressure. The military uses a "quick clot" like product now. They've had great results on improving survival
    Added this to my Medical box.
    http://first-aid-product.com/first-aid-supplies/bandages-and-wound-care/blood-stopper/trauma-pak-with-quikclot.html
    PS-
    Super glue? yep works great when the blood don't flow to fast.
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    Last time I had surgery,the Doc laid in a piece of what looked like candle wick to drain the cut as it healed.Worked like a charm.
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  • nmyersnmyers Member Posts: 16,892 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    In March, I had to help a friend with active bleeding from his stomach after staple removal. He had just been to a doc-in-the-box to have the staple removed, but the doc wasn't familiar with the new removal tool, which just bends the staple outward. So, the doc just yanked out the staple & put a gauze pad on the cut.

    I'd have a tough time stapling or suturing a family member (or pet) who hadn't first been given a local anesthetic.

    Neal
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  • fideaufideau Member Posts: 11,895 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I had surgery several years ago for PAD, they put in two stents. One in the right Femoral Artery. The incision was right in the crease of my leg when I sit. A couple of the staples were not exactly straight which caused some painful pinching. I took a pair of model train rail cutters I had and snipped the offending staples easily and pulled them out. This was several weeks after surgery of course. I'm not stupid, and I heal fast.
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  • bigoutsidebigoutside Member Posts: 19,443 ✭
    edited November -1
    Small, light, inexpensive and sterile.
    I have a few tucked away.
    Be sure to get a staple remover too.
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  • remingtonoaksremingtonoaks Member Posts: 26,245 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The original reason they invented super glue was for military to use by medics to close wounds in the field
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  • 1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    i guess the interpretation of what an emergency can vary greatly



    i have 3 places i have stitched myself, cut the web on my hand once, you could hold it open and see across my hand put in 12 stitches and healed better than any doctor stitches i have, other hand i got a lond shard of glass in my palm, it took 4 , knee was split open by falling on a parking curb it took around 18

    while i would not advise it when you can get medical care, its not rocket science done on skin surface wounds
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  • yoshmysteryoshmyster Member Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm more of the duct tape (now Gorilla Tape) and sanitary napkins. Then Crazy/Super Glue. I like Crazy Glue because they come in a hard container so little chance it'll get squished.
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  • ChrisStreettChrisStreett Member Posts: 3,847 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    +1 Barzilla. Lol, we actually agree on something for once! I'm gonna have to make note of this somewhere.
    "...dying ain't much of a living boy"-Josey Wales
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  • gunnut505gunnut505 Member Posts: 10,290 ✭
    edited November -1
    This post (more of a tangent than a hijack) would be the perfect place to design the perfect prepmedkit!
    First off, if you have ZERO medical training or experience aside from a Red Cross CPR class, or Heimlich Maneuver familiarity; you're gonna need a manual.
    The Ranger's Medical Manual, Field Surgery, Trauma, the Merck Nursing Manual, and all the hundreds of books on anatomy/physiology and disease control, if you packed all of 'em into your bug out bookmobile, would take up valuable space.
    Not to mention all the tools, supplies, ointments & gauze.

    So, what would be the "ideal" medical kit, which reference book/CD would be in it, and which tools are multipurpose, thus indispensable?
    Oh yeah, the kit in its' final form, has to be man-portable
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  • mogley98mogley98 Member Posts: 18,291 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Morphine man Morphine!

    I don't think I could tolerate the pain of stiching myself up without some Lidocain and I don't think I could give myslef a shot of Lidocain in a wound so I would pretty much need something I could swallow or smoke! :)
    Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
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  • TooBigTooBig Member Posts: 28,559 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Super glue NOT it gave me a big infection and the doc said the medical field uses a different Super Glue
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  • 1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Barzillia
    quote:Originally posted by ChrisStreett
    +1 Barzilla. Lol, we actually agree on something for once! I'm gonna have to make note of this somewhere.



    Stick with me and you'll be wearing diamonds.

    [;)]






    is this a proposal ? [:D]
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  • JasonVJasonV Member Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sterile suture kis are dirt cheap on Amazon. I have one in all my first aid kits.
    formerly known as warpig883
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  • SperrySperry Member Posts: 5,006 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Peroxide, Transpore, cyanoacrylate.
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  • remingtonoaksremingtonoaks Member Posts: 26,245 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by 1911a1-fan
    quote:Originally posted by Barzillia
    quote:Originally posted by ChrisStreett
    +1 Barzilla. Lol, we actually agree on something for once! I'm gonna have to make note of this somewhere.



    Stick with me and you'll be wearing diamonds.

    [;)]






    is this a proposal ? [:D]


    Barzillia, I knew you were a liberal, but I had no idea that you were a Flamer
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,240 ******
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by gunnut505
    Super glue.
    +100
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  • john wjohn w Member Posts: 4,104
    edited November -1
    Body shop bandage = toilet paper and masking tape
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