If you don’t know what it is you need in a medical kit, there are quite a few of the medical companies online who sell “stop the bleed” kits.
I know chinook medical makes a nice one and allows you to pick which type tourniquet you would like packaged in the kit. Plus I believe they are veteran owned
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Nah. Keep preaching it!
I have thought about the ankle kit. Which one do you use? I have a nephew that uses warrior poets. How hard is it to get used to? Do people notice in on you?
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I knocked around getting one for a while and for my birthday one year my girlfriend picked one up for me. It wasn’t very comfortable and I found myself not wearing it so believe it or not I bought one from the warrior poet society and it is pretty comfortable. Now mind you I have it on over a sock.
As far as people noticing I have it, only when I’m wearing shorts 
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I’ve also found that the soft T wide tourniquet lays very flat and works well in the ankle kit
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My favorite YT Medic to learn from. 
I have posted his vids before on other first aid topics.
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I go to this page every so often. It goes beyond stop the bleed and TCCC.
I also go to Skinny Medic’s YouTube channel on occasion.
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I have done business with D&B for many years. 
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Yes indeed. The SOF-T is excellent.
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I watch Prep Medic a lot myself. Skinny Medic is good too. It looks like we are looking at a lot of the same on-line training guys.
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Thanks for helping with the correction. I’m trying to talk text and I could not get it to come out correctly
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It can be fun to incorporate medical into your gun training too. I took a training class that (to me) was pretty stressful. Three days and one night of, active shooter videos, table top exercise type stuff, range drills, force on force, live fire shoot houses, etc. One of the drills we ran was to stage a tourniquet on our belt. Shoot the target 3-5 times, and the instructor would yell out a limb. You had to holster up, take the tourniquet off of your belt without using the “injured” limb, and apply the tourniquet (one handed depending on the injured limb). When you were done you raised your hand. Instructor came by and checked for a pulse. If you still had a pulse on that limb you had to fix the tourniquet to shut off the blood flow. We repeated this drill ant least four times-one for each limb. Oddly enough, I actually thought that drill was fun.
We also used improvised stuff to make tourniquets. One of the girls in the class bruised me up pretty good with a makeshift tourniquet using a triangular bandage and dowel rod.
The experts all swear by the SOFT T wide and the North American Rescue (why can’t I think of what they call it?) but then they tout stats from how many tourniquets saved lives at the Boston Marathon bombing incident and show pictures of makeshift tourniquets. 
Knowledge and gear are both important.
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Oh I was not doing a correction at all. I did not even notice it sir. It’s a great TQ to be sure.
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Cat 7 tourniquet. Of the two I found the cat seven to be easier to use for self application But others may have a different experience
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Thanks for recovering my fumble there, brother. All I could come up with was the SWAT and I knew that was wrong!
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The only thing I have against Cat 7 is the bar catch, it’s big and it more difficult to conceal. I carry them in my bags but for my edc Ifak I carry a soft t cat 5
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I just ordered 2 of the SAM XT tourniquet
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Yes the bar catch would make the 7 obnoxious to try and use on something like an ankle kit. But I did keep them staged in vehicles and packs
Great thread on first-aid - sad that no one has addressed the legal liability for rendering first-aid to strangers. What if you do all you can to help someone and they die, but relatives believe because you are so prepared and have knowledge “ you should have done more to save them”. Or they are paralyzed because of your mistakes ( in a sue happy world, it’s automatically your fault- if you have ANY $$ or insurance that they can sue). When I was training to become medical assistant, we were warned about rendering aid, while that is or mission, others mission is to profit from tragic circumstances…sad the way the world mentality has morphed! But awesome on everyone for learning and preparing for defending LIFE in every way needed, now let’s hope we don’t need to use it!
I understand very much your point about being held responsible. If the person or their family decides to attack the finances of the person who assists.
Though, seeing a senior woman injured brings out my HELP beliefs I was raised on.
Yours is a substantial point though.
Thank you for your entry on this subject.
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