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I'm putting together a backpack for us to use on runs where a lot of walking is necessary or just for events where we can't get the medic into parts of the venue.
Our current first-in bags are very heavy and have pretty much everything under the sun in them. (They aren't really first in bags as they are the entire ambulance in a bag, but that's a gripe that is above my pay grade). The problem is that these bags are shoulder hung and therefore too cumbersome to take on a 5 mile hike down a trail or even if we park outside of a stadium and have to walk to the patient a good ways.
Enter my solution: a BLS Backpack. It would have all of our minor trauma supplies but only in enough quantity for 2 patients (our first in bag has enough for a small mass-casualty right now...) and a set of major trauma supplies (board splint, BVM etc). Our O2 bottle and O2 supplies (NC, NRB, Neb, etc) would be carried in a separate oxygen bag that's already been scoped out.
Can anyone recommend either a good bag that would do this or an alternate solution to what I'm trying to do? The 2 largest items I have in there right now are the 15" armboard (which is much cheaper than the rolled SAM splint) and the BVM so anything that has dimensions that can fit those 2 should work.
Thanks guys!
Our current first-in bags are very heavy and have pretty much everything under the sun in them. (They aren't really first in bags as they are the entire ambulance in a bag, but that's a gripe that is above my pay grade). The problem is that these bags are shoulder hung and therefore too cumbersome to take on a 5 mile hike down a trail or even if we park outside of a stadium and have to walk to the patient a good ways.
Enter my solution: a BLS Backpack. It would have all of our minor trauma supplies but only in enough quantity for 2 patients (our first in bag has enough for a small mass-casualty right now...) and a set of major trauma supplies (board splint, BVM etc). Our O2 bottle and O2 supplies (NC, NRB, Neb, etc) would be carried in a separate oxygen bag that's already been scoped out.
Can anyone recommend either a good bag that would do this or an alternate solution to what I'm trying to do? The 2 largest items I have in there right now are the 15" armboard (which is much cheaper than the rolled SAM splint) and the BVM so anything that has dimensions that can fit those 2 should work.
Thanks guys!