Originally Posted By: MDinana

I just have hemostats, and know how to use them wink

There are paramedics and doctors here, and then there are people who read Preparedness forums on the Internet all day and stayed at a Holiday Inn last night. grin Not quite the same...

It's worth perhaps two sets of recommendations, one assuming no practice and no info other than what's printed on the package. For a total medical n00b like myself the $30 product might make more sense if it might work and does no harm, even if a paramedic might find the $10 product more functional.

One issue not raised so far is storage temperature. If this is a car FAK that stays in the car when you go to work then temperature matters a lot. I'd need not less than 20F - 160F tolerance and many medicines aren't rated for that. Even adhesives in bandages might have problems.

PS. On the two occasions I was first to the scene both were urban auto accidents were the victim seemed unlikely to get worse before EMS arrived, so I followed the "do no harm" rule and only monitored until responders appeared. One lady had her face rearranged by the steering wheel - at least her unused seat-belt was probably undamaged - but any wrapping or bandaging I might have done seemed likely to just make the paramedic spend 20 seconds cutting it away.