Planning outdoor activities? Don’t forget your first-aid kit By Eli Francovich, The Spokesman-Review
Published: May 25, 2021, 6:02am
Share: A basic backpacking first-aid kit should have some trauma care gear. And you should know how to use it, experts say. (Molly Quinn/The Spokesman-Review)
SPOKANE With spring well-established and summer outdoor adventures fast approaching, it’s time to consider your first-aid kit.
What’s in it? What’s not? What should be? Do you have one?
To some extent experts differ on the particulars, but there is one thing everyone can agree on: Consider the activity.
“What are the common and then worst-case scenario problems that happen with those activities? Then build or buy a kit that addresses both those issues,” said Jason Luthy, the founder of Sandpoint, Idaho-based Longleaf Wilderness Medicine.
Emergency wilderness medicine courses popular By Eli Francovich, The Spokesman-Review
Published: May 23, 2021, 6:00am
Share: Alli Walker wraps a patient???s hand during a nine-day Wilderness First Responder course near Coeur d???Alene in March. (Eli Francovich/The Spokesman-Review/TNS)
SPOKANE Imagine, the cable snapped. The beam upon which five people stood 30 feet up hurtled to the ground. The taut metal’s explosive recoil ripped a man’s eye out, leaving him shocked and disoriented. The nearest ambulance? At least an hour away.
Now you’re on the scene. What do you do?
Or, you and a friend are backpacking and his stomach starts to hurt. The nearest town? One day’s hike.