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RE: [RC] Woman hurt at Loomis Basin Arena? Perhaps First Aid Training should be added to our horse training? - Jim HollandYes....I carry those, but they are too thick to be a really good pressure dressing for arterial bleeding, but great for any other bleeding. If you could only carry ONE bandage (a dressing covers a wound....a bandage keeps the dressing in place) carry the large triangular bandages that are shaped like a bandana folded diagonally. You can wrap with it, make a "sling" with it, use it for a pressure bandage, tie with it, splint with it and a lot of other things. 4 x 4 and 4 x 6 dressings are nice to have along....and are sterile, which the feminine hygiene products are not. Jim, Sun of Dimanche+, and Mahada Magic Richard T. "Jim" Holland Three Creeks Farm 175 Hells Hollow Drive Blue Ridge, Ga 30513 (706) 258-2830 www.threecreeksarabians.com Callsign KI4BEN -----Original Message----- From: Lynne Glazer [mailto:anyone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 3:28 PM To: Jim Holland Cc: RIDECAMP Subject: Re: [RC] Woman hurt at Loomis Basin Arena? Perhaps First Aid Training should be added to our horse training? Apologies to the list...but feminine hygiene products make great emergency bandages, especially the mini pads (not the panty liners) that come folded into thirds in their own wrappers. Made not to stick and very absorbent. At home the Maxi pads are dynamite for wounds. Lessons learned: vet/conformal wrap kept inside one's Easy Boot keeps it from getting squished (and hard to start unrolling) in one's cantle bag. I once splinted a rider's badly broken wrist (both bones) over a still-frozen ice water bottle with vetrap, used a leg quilt, track bandage and my sweatshirt as a sling so we could ride 5 miles back, the accident happened on the Tevis trail (to make it endurance- related). Now I carry the mini pads instead of a leg quilt, to avoid the bulk. Lynne interested in that First Responder stuff because Army training only gets ya so far =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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