Know Your Medical Supplies (Opening Medical Items)

Hi guys, my name is Sam and welcome to Prepmatic. This week we will open

medical

supplies

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what I'm going to call this video. I need to discover something that will condense what I am. I'm trying to make it here because this won't make sense to a lot of people unless you've been in a situation where you've opened a product meant to save someone's life, been under a lot of stress, and then all of a sudden, what seems like a simple packaging becomes a Rubik's cube and you open the first layer and hey, there's a second layer there that you have to open.

It can get very, very challenging, even though all of these things play out in a different way and have just a little bit of difference. uses, so while all I have in front of you is some type of gauze, bandage or occlusive dressing, they are all very different in their use depending on the company you go with, so in this week's video I'm going to open up each thing. See this chart to give you an idea of ​​how it works, how it comes out of the packaging, where the break points are, and if there's anything particularly confusing about the product we're using.

I think this is important because while I always would. I recommend that someone buy two of everything before putting it in their first aid kit. This is expensive when we're talking about rapid clotting at $55 for a pack of that Celex gauze, about the same price. There you have a rolled gauze that comes in and out of stock, it's hard to get, you have things like battle wrap, which I think is fifteen twenty dollars and so on, it gets very expensive and especially for products that a lot of people are never going to use in their life.

It's hard to justify that extra cost just in the name of practice, which is why I think this video is important. I have a ton of different brands in front of you, so I hope this applies to you. I'll try to leave it as a The category of these things is open so you

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what time it stops, so let's start with our packing gauze, anything we would use to pack a junction site in the case of a massive arterial hemorrhage. Now, these are a little different. here we have a static clause for humans and then this gauze here is not treated.

The survivability between these two is quite similar. This is the gold standard, but it's good enough. There is just a big difference in price. This will be 50. These will be. from a few to tens of dollars, so let's start with the most commonly known product here and it will be a quick clot fighting gauze. Now this is the XL version. I don't even know if they make it anymore, but this is something like that.

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gold standard now with the packaging here we have a couple of different prongs to help you open it it has two on the sides and then you have four on the bottom and you can open this with any of them so you just tear it apart. to come out relatively easily, so it comes out of the bottom here and it's all Z-folded, so I can keep pulling this, it doesn't spin in my hand, it doesn't go all over the place, which I really like the Z-folded versions.

Z and then this is just packing in the wound it's pretty easy to find the end, but if you can't find the end and you just grab this with

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hand, you'll get what you need to start packing that wound, you'll notice. a strip in the middle and this is a radiopaque line that is meant to show this gauze on any type of x-ray, so if you're doing a CT scan, an x-ray, the surgeon will see this gauze and can make sure they take it out. all of that wound so that the patient doesn't become more massively infected than they already are and develop an abscess and all sorts of nasty things.

This gauze is pretty clean, it's infused with that hemostatic agent, but it's not really like getting things dirty leaves your hands maybe a little bit of residue, but that's it, very safe, you don't have to worry too much about it, Next we are going to see the cellox quick tape. Now I did a little. In the commercials for these guys, there are a lot of different Celex products, but this is one of their hemostatic agents and they will all open relatively the same, so here we have two tabs and they are indicated by black. There it's just a different color it only tears at the top now these packs won't tear very easily anywhere else so you have to use what they provided you with unlike the quick clot this is very complicated now this It is the small version that I would use.

If I were you, I wouldn't use this, I would use the larger version that they have, but it's the same thing, so here we have this and it almost has cornmeal in it and this gauze, when you put it on the wound, it will actually form. Some kind of gelatinous clot there will form like this gelatinous ball. There are some studies that say this will work a little bit better than rapid clot and people who are on blood thinners, so this is it. It's going to work a little bit better for that one more time, although you can put the thicker gauze in there, uh, and that's going to work fine and you can see that it's already made a complete mess on my desk, so now here's the next thing that have.

H H compression compression bandage we have the responder Gnar uh compressed gauze Nar rolled gauze and then a H Tak guys here I want to start with this one because this is actually the gauze that was the inspiration for this video because it can be very confusing uh there is another version of this that comes in a green package, don't be confused, they are pretty much the same thing, so with North American Rescue, anything that is red will open or move in some way, so here I can take this. Boy, I can peel it. I can remove the gauze, but wait, there's another package inside.

This is an elegant package. It's there for a reason, but it can be very confusing. I had a short circuit on a video a couple of years ago. when I opened one of these and I didn't realize this was going to be a case so like I just said if it's red on the North American products it will open not only similar to the Striker cut so here I can take this, I can rake that section back and now I can take this gauze out little by little and the idea is that then this is not like falling into the mud in someone's blood, getting saturated before you even cover the wound, you know it works and then You can remove it completely.

It has a very similar consistency to the other cheesecloth, but I would say it is a little more fibrous. They're even a little bit dirtier, so you've got a good amount of it's there, it comes in that packaging, so don't get confused with the secondary packaging, there are a lot of different brands that do that, for a number of different reasons, if you can get away with it. yours and if you are okay with the possible exposure of your gauze, I personally like to open it from that outer packaging, just keep in mind that this will completely diminish any sterility it once had, so keep that in mind and obviously you are assuming that you're at risk by damaging the packaging or removing it from that packaging beforehand, okay, so let's talk about some of these things here, we have Nar compressed gauze, probably the most common thing and probably the cheapest, so they open two red lines like that and then we can reach the glass now. one doesn't come with anything, but this thing is a brick as is, it doesn't fall apart so I think it's a little harder to get going, you can pull it and get to the end somewhere like that. that's why I'm making this video for reasons like this, you can do it, you'll notice, I never liked finding the ending on my own and now this is not Z-folded, it's just a gauze wrapped, so this is flipped.

In my experience, it's a little less convenient for packing a wound and again, you've got quite a bit here and it's pretty compact, but it's nice and soft and it's easy to pack a wound and it's okay, moving on to the two H H products H It's a great product one of my favorites, my favorite things is this Tak gauze because it's very thin, it fits very easily in many different kits, sorry I didn't talk about that one, this one has no markings on these stretch marks for open, but still It's pretty obvious, you open it at the top and then you can reach in and pull it out once again.

These things don't open very well from anywhere else. I definitely got stressed in the scenes and ended up cutting these wrappers with Trauma Scissors because my stupid brain can't quite figure it out, so my understanding is that with this gauze you can do it two different ways, so you have this tail and everyone I open has this tail and you can take this and You can use this to pack the gauze into the wound if you want, but there's also an end here that you can take out and you can pack it this way or use it just as a bandage, so it's kind of interesting.

It comes out like the inside of a toilet paper roll and then you just pack it into the wound like you would any other gauze, obviously it comes out like some kind of trunk or tube, but that's not going to hurt you right now, for now. , last but not least, we have the compression gauze H here now this or compressed gauze here now this here we open it up and it's very similar to the other gauze, only it has a little information sheet on there, again, it's a little bit hard to find the end and just unroll like this and you'll get a lot so you get an idea with those let's move on to our pressure bandages and a couple of different options from a couple of different suppliers so the most common thing is we'll start with an emergency trauma bandage, this is the North.

American Rescue ETD four inch the red one you can open it up on the red one and then we reach up to grab it this says uh on the other side towards the wound so when we open it up it closes with Velcro and that will start to open now part of this gauze. it has things on it that will keep it from rolling up or some of these bandages have things on them to keep it from rolling up. This one doesn't have different models of its own, so keep in mind that this could go everywhere very quickly.

It has this absorbent pad that goes into the Wrap this and it has velcro, this will stick to the velcro and that will prevent you from taking it off your leg when you try to tighten it because you are going to tighten them very, very tight now. Up here we have the little bracket and some Velcro so it velcros down and then we can take the rest of it and we can put it back through this clip and keep it secure on the patient. It is very important to keep it safe. The patient just knows that when you wrap a few times you get more friction and it will be much easier to do this in the same line.

Let's look at two options h h so we have uh, let's see what this one is called. the Cinch Hook Comprehensive Compression Trauma Bandage, wow, that took me a little while, so you've got really big stripes here, you can open them from either side, there's a ton of them. I really like it, it just makes it easier to get to them. so we'll go through the first main one, it opens all the way down and we get this neat little package, but this is the bandage, so the bandage keeps it there, it's a huge absorbent pad, which is fine, just make sure that this is placed over it and you know exactly where you are putting pressure similar to the Olay bandage, it has this hook that is basically meant to give you leverage to make this a very, very tight bandage, you can pull it over and then pull it over to the other side. and start wrapping it as far as I know, this is not a multifunction bandage as usual uh funny story.

I already made this video. I went through everything, opened everything, including a lace bandage, and got to the end. and I realized I didn't record audio, so this is my second take. Unfortunately, we're using about 500 products of product today, so this guy comes in at the end and will secure with a Velcro loop, just make sure you pull these on. tight because it is a very elastic bandage, last but not least in category H we have your mini compression bandage once again. I love these things because they are very compact, it is very easy to put them in your things and I tried to open them so that The way it was opened, the other way around, this guy comes out without secondary packaging, pretty clean when it comes out and then unrolls.

Now there's not a ton of bandage here. It fits on a camera, so I can stretch it a lot for you to understand. around your leg, something like that, this Velcro will stick and then when I turn around, I can use this hook that's the same one that's on the North American Rescue bandage on one side and the other, it'll hold on tight, you've got the absorbent pad. in the middle, to just lower that pressure and hopefully keep the wound from getting too dirty and getting things on you, kind of the only one in this category, uh, I've used this once, it's a battle bandage and it's It's supposed to be like a transparent bandage, relatively expensive but a great product because in theory you can see what's going on underneath, so on top we have a black tab.

I think that's the only way to open this package. We open it up and then we have something like I said, I only opened this once, okay, now we have this guy here and he says remove and ta-da, you have the actual bandage here and we can take this and start by wrapping it around itself, this It's a unique, one-of-a-kind product, we wrap it and wrap it and it sticks to itself as it goes, so this can turn into a mess very, very quickly, this is a sticky side, I guess you could even use it. This as an occlusive bandage on your chest is something interesting suchas is, but it has that absorbency pad, just keep in mind that you have to remove that wrapper first so you can't even take it off my hand, okay, moving on to the last thing we're going to talk about. about today and those are the chest stamps so let's start with these guys because they are my favorites.

I talk about them in many kits. I basically use these and everything now these are a little bit older they've been boxed so you're going to see what happens over time uh with these chest seals here I have the two red

opening

s because they're dashes they're made by North American Rescue so we open them up here take them out of the package and behold their chest seals compact and they are small so don't be surprised when they come out and they are really small. You have this gauze right here that's designed to just clean around the wound so the adhesive really sticks when we train these things when we go to In a classroom a lot of times you have like this really cute little wing on your chest, it's like Was it a chest wound that is sucking or you just wrote it with a marker and you stuck it there and it works great and that's why people think you can take like duct tape and turn it into a chest seal in the real world , what you've done, you've got dust, you've got dirt, you've got blood, grime, and all kinds of other things that will make it very difficult to be successful in the real world. situation now here we made it now you'll notice the edges of this have gotten really gross this still works fine this is a fine chest seal but it's absolutely disgusting now this one is vented you can see these three portions it doesn't It doesn't have that stickiness.

I like vented stamps but right now my hand is gross so keep in mind chest deals are always gross and these guys are small, it's a very small surface area. Now I'll show you them in comparison to their individual chests. The stamps are just like your normal size, that's it, except larger, although I like these just for their form factor and in the relatively rare situations we use them in, these larger ones will be much easier to adhere to a patient, they will simply make it better. in all aspects, so here you have the same gauze to clean things.

I can't even use my hands now and a much larger version, but now they are exactly the same, the bigger it is, like I said, the more surface area you can stick on. on your chest, the more effective they will be in the long term. I hope you found this video useful. If you have any questions, leave them in the comments below and I'll see you next week.