I'd like to have different "stations" in which the scout will need to assess a situation and then improvise a treatment out of common camping equipment (for example, use a safety pin and a shirt to make a sling, or duct tape to make "sunglasses" to prevent snow-blindness).
Some stations will have important, "can't miss" items, like hypothermia, or adult with chest pain.
These stations should be brief and to the point.
So ... any suggestions?
Splinting, immobilizing, canes with makeshift materials in the woods
PS: Duct works well for this when nothing else is there....heck, even when other stuff is there!
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Blood loss/hypovolemic shock (treat and or stop active bleed,shock position, give fluids)
Anaphlactic reactions (epi pen, benadryl)
Just a few acute examples that come to mind
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Duct tape will take a front and center role, being used for bandages, traction, bracing, and sunglasses.
The "I sliced my finger" hits close to home for all of us. I want them to know how to decide if it needs stitches, etc.
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Also, incorporate into each station that they need to assess the victim to make sure that they have found and dealt with all of the problems/injuries. Many victims have more than one issue to deal with.
Good to see your doing this, especially for Scouts. What council are you with?
They can make an eye wash/wound flush by filling a ziplock with "clean" and/or filtered water and poking a pinhole in the bag and squeezing to flush away a foriegn object from the eye or rinse out a wound.
They could make a PSS solution (physiological saline solution) by adding salt or salt tabs to "clean" and/or filtered water to rinse or flush as above.
Ensolite sleeping pads make great splints and also to pad and help warm the victim as designed.
I like the "assessing the scene for danger" point. The first thought has to be to avoid losing any rescuers, right?
And I hadn't thought of the eye station. I was going to have them use the ziploc to irrigate a wound, but using it on an eye is a great idea, and makes them improvise.
use something padded wrapped in thin leather(an old piece of furniture??)as a dummy
had to do it once, on a doctor, who stepped on a nice 4/0 walking down the beach in St. Simons
he screamed like heck but was glad to have it out
good luck with the training, what a great thing to do
Keep up the good work.
Knives are probably the most common!
