First Aid Kit
Used to cover blisters
When preparing vegetables for a campout, the knife slips and the Scout on cooking duty ends up with a cut on their arm.
Clean the wound, use a sterile pad to apply pressure, apply a bandage
While working in the garden, your parent accidentally aggravates and gets stung by a honeybee.
Scrape the stinger out using a flat card-like surface, treat for anaphylaxis
What is Poison Ivy?
Best way to prevent heat exhaustion
What is Drinking Water?
Needed to protect one's body when treating wounds
What are Gloves?
Your patrol has just finished a hike. Your ankles begin to hurt because they have been brushing against your hiking boots for the duration of the hike. You are forming a blister
Don't pop the blister, cover with moleskin. If it does pop, clean the area.
You accidentally bump nose-first into a glass door and your nose starts bleeding.
Lean foward, lightly pinch the nose bridge, hold a cold compress against the nose
Has around 7 leaves
What is Poison Sumac?
Prevents hypothermia and frostbite
What is Warm, Dry clothing?
Commonly used to remove splinters or barbs
What are tweezers?
When preparing spaghetti for dinner, you accidentally touch the pot with your bare fingers and sustain a burn.
Run the burn under cool water, treat with aloe vera.
A scout is bitten by a viper when cleaning up a trail.
Call 911, gently clean the wound, keep the bite below/at the level of the heart, encourage the victim to stay calm
This lotion is great for relieving itching from poisonous plants
What is Calamine Lotion?
What is Insect Repellant?
Used to immobilize fractures of the arm or shoulder
What is a triangular bandage?
A friend of yours, after eating, is unable to speak or breathe and clasps both their hands around their neck.
Call 911, stand behind the victim, strike the back between the shoulder blades, perform abdominal thrusts
A man camping in Alaska in the winter realizes his ring finger is starting to turn grey.
Move to a warmer area, get into dry clothing, put the area against warm skin, place into warm water of needed, apply a loose bandage
What happens if you get poisonous plants on your clothes?
Change clothes, put the contaminated clothes in a heavy plastic bag, wash them separately
Can be established by an individual scout who is using a blade to prevent other scouts from accidentally getting cut
What is a Blood Circle?