EMS Equipment

[ashreck]

I am looking for a conveniant way to cary my EMS gear in my backpack. I needs to be seperate and easy to pull out but i cant find any pods, bags, or inserts that will work or are cheap enough. If you have any ideas let me know.

[Captain K-man]

Try http://www.countycomm.com/ . They have some cool bags at good prices.

Bag page http://www.countycomm.com/NYLONINDEX.htm

[plm61]

Conterra makes very nice stuff and the owner is in Mountain SAR, so knows how his gear is used.

We have three distinct seasons here: hot summer, pleasant fall/spring, and cold (in the mountains, anyway) winter. Thus we all tend to have three sets of SAR gear and my medical stuff gets moved from pack to pack.

I use Conterra small organizer pockets (http://www.conterra-inc.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=67). I find these very useful for organizing small modules.

I have a small wound kit (essentially personal medical stuff) and a SAM splint as basics. Depending on the size of pack I will carry, I add a small medications kit, an ortho kit (another SAM splint, some 3M Scotchcast, etc). If I know it is a medical call, I throw all this in a Conterra Patrol Belt pack (http://www.conterra-inc.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=6) along with a wrist BP cuff, more wound materials, an airway or two, pulse oximeter, mini 3-lead ECG, etc. For serious medical stuff all this goes into a Conterra ALS Extreme (http://www.conterra-inc.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=27) backpack along with O2, more airways, IV fluids, c-collars, etc.

If you need to carry a lot of medications, this kit from Chinook (http://www.chinookmed.com/cgi-bin/item/01340/containers/-Medication-Bag-%28TMK-MEDS%29----------------------) is pretty nice.

Regards,

Patrick
WEMT/PA-C (with no connection to Conterra or Chinook)

[DarkHelmet]

There is a whole thread on medic bags here: http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/36591-Medic-Bags