As for the 'splints' go with the SAM. If you have a 'base camp' (ie. a cabin), and you have the money, the vaccuum splints are fantastic.....

As for the pocket mask....new studies show that 'respirations' aren't as important as originally though. In Japan they are doing CPR with a non-rebreather mask (think of a simple face mask that provides oxygen to a breathinbg patient) on the patient while CPR is bing done. From what we've heard, they've had pretty good outcomes....Though my medical director isn't going that route yet, we have completley changed our medical guidelines....we no longer intubate a patient in arrest....basically they say to just "Pump Hard, Pump Fast and don't stop". Now we don't even check for a pulse after we defibrillate them (shock them)....we go RIGHT BACK to CPR....no stopping. We stop when someone feels a good pulse or the heart rhythm changes to something we think should give us a pulse. I don't even carry one in my vehicle anymore....