Channel: MOTOTREK

Category: Autos & Vehicles

Tags: adventuremotorcyclemotorcyclingadvworldktmskillr1250gstravelbmw

Description: When seconds count will you know how to react? USAF Air Commando Veteran Robert Burnes guest hosts and explains the basics of quickly dealing with traumatic bleeding and blunt force trauma using a tourniquet and hemostatic devices. Learn how to prepare your skillset and compile a first aid kit you should carry on your adventure motorcycle so you'll be prepared for a trauma emergency. Please get quality first aid training. stopthebleed.org (American College of Surgeons) Adventure Medical Kit amzn.to/2KRYilH Curaplex Stop The Bleed Basic Kit with CAT Tourniquet amzn.to/393WVsc Curaplex Stop The Bleed Intermediate Kit with CAT Tourniquet amzn.to/3pRevGy What's in Robert's first aid kit? EVERYTHING amazon.com/shop/mototrek?listId=2BHPAC03HLCO6 1. CAT Gen 7 Tourniquet and Sharpie Marker amzn.to/3o5wxEA 2. Quick-Clot (Large and X-Tra Large-5 EA) amzn.to/3rHnLiA 3. Sterile dressing (Multiple sizes) amzn.to/3aTbz8b 4. Elastic bandage (2 EA) amzn.to/34Wk8LS 5. Medical Tape; amzn.to/3pEkdvI 6. Moleskin (Blister); amzn.to/3rEj7lf 7. Cotton tip applicators (20 EA) amzn.to/3aVkeHt 8. Antiseptic wipes (10 EA) amzn.to/38NLZ1R 9. Triple antibiotic ointment (2 EA) amzn.to/3hvRRRe 10. Trauma pad (Multiple sizes) amzn.to/2WVUNxh 11. Nitrile Gloves (10 EA) amzn.to/38LFUD2 12. Wound closure strips (10 EA) amzn.to/3o0IAmQ 13. Wound irrigation tool amzn.to/3oejVek 14. Medical scissors (1 EA) amzn.to/2WU9917 15. Misc. Anti-inflammatory drugs 16. Misc. Allergy medications amzn.to/3mYOrHP 17. CPR Adult and Infant face shields; amzn.to/2KROrfE 18. Duct Tape (Small roll) amzn.to/2Jx2Ayp 19. Splinter/Tick removal tool amzn.to/3pF5BvI 20. Medical Aide book 21. Eyewash distilled water 22. Burn ointment amzn.to/2JxsWAn 23. Various bandages amzn.to/2L5vfuL 24. Medical grade glue amzn.to/2Lay2CN 25. Large, cotton bandage amzn.to/3n28vt5 26. Lactoid (Lactose medication) (10 EA) 27. Salt tablets (10 EA) amzn.to/3aRJoqp 28. Sugar tablets (10 EA) amzn.to/2WYw0sk 29. Epi-Pen 30. Gun-Shot medical kit (2 EA) 31. Deflated Lung/Punctured Lung medical tools (4 EA) 32. Emergency tracheostomy tool (2 EA) 33. Seal/sanitized medical scalpel (2 EA) amzn.to/3b8g8vN 34. Stethoscope (1 EA) 35. Activated charcoal amzn.to/38SaICl 36. Emergency/Shock blanket amzn.to/3rERkBh as an adventure motorcyclist and a special operations veteran i know how critical it is to be prepared for unexpected trauma stick around and i'll show you what i carry in my trauma kit every day welcome to MOTOTREK my name is Robert Burns i'm a decorated combat veteran and a 20 plus year veteran of law enforcement and today we're going to be talking about blunt force trauma and bleed trauma. what would you do if you faced this situation? this is the time to be calm and deliberate yet seconds count. now may mean the difference between life and death. how can he stop her bleeding? what should he do first? let's say you're out on your adventure bike you're having a great time you've got the right equipment on you end up slipping somewhere along the line on the asphalt on the hard pack on a goat trail you put a foot down you put a hand down in the wrong location like a bush a tree a piece of a fence and as the bike goes tumbling away and you tumble after it you start to notice that you've got this bright red blood flow coming out from either the cuff of your jacket or the cuff of your boot pant now is not the time to start looking around for where that cut is this is a tourniquet there's a lot of myths that go along with using this piece of equipment people would say that you're going to lose that limb that's not the case anymore when you're going to use the tourniquet on the arm you want to try to get it up as high as possible nearest the armpit where this brachial artery is if it can't go up here then you can put it as far down as here by the elbow but you don't want to put it on anywhere where you've got two bones especially where two bones cross over each other up here at the elbow joint and down here at the wrist if the injury is to the leg you want to try to get the turner kit as high as you possibly can on the femur you're trying to cut the blood flow off here where the femoral artery is but just like the upper arm you don't want to put it anywhere where you've got two bones at especially where two bones cross over each other at the joints the turner kit is for when you can't see the wound but you know you're bleeding and you know you're bleeding #StopTheBleed #firstAid #motorcycle #survival #QuikClot #hemostatic #Tourniquet #BikerDown #RiderDown