While at work today I was down at the local mall, and outside a photoshop I found a bin with outdated camera pouches for $8.
It hit me that this is what I've been looking for, so I bought one and one my way home from work dropped by a pharmacy to get some stuff.
Here's the pouch, kit inside and ready to go. Guess I need to add a red cross or something on it.
The big compartment. The loops for fastening 2 rolls of film is perfect for a fieddressing and a roll of gauze!
The small compartment. perfect for smaller bandaids +++
All the stuff, see list below.
I had some of this stuff lying around, this is marked *. Some I scrounged at work, that's marked ". The rest I bought at the pharmacy; A small-wound package(A suprisingly diverse package for the $$), a pack of sterile wound cleaning towels and a pack of medical strips.
Top left to bottom right:
10 pcs medium band aids
2 pcs bigger band aids
Medical strips
2 packets of Burnshield"
A CPR mask*
surgical blade*
cheap squeeze LED light*
2 pcs wound dressing with adhesive tape
2 pcs wound dressing without tape
4 pcs sterile wound cleaning towels
medical tape
1 small fielddressing"
1 roll of gauze"
1 pair of nitrile gloves*
I decided to not add meds, as I already EDC a small ziplock FAK which include my meds.
Complete FAK cost me $27,83. Out of that the medical strips were the most expensive costing me $6,5(I could have taken a pack from my main FAK but didn't want to). I also could have dropped buying the extra wound cleaning towels as the 'wound pack' had 2 already, that would have been another $4,8 off. The kits I've been looking at cost $33,5 and up.
This might seem expensive for you yanks, but the prices (and wages) are higher here in Norway than in the US. For a price comparison, a litre of 95 unleaded petrol costs approx $1,9 here in Norway at the moment, making it approx $7 a gallon. While we don't have a law for minimum wage here in Norway, an organisation has suggested it should be $15 an hour.
It's already stuffed to the brim, but if someone see anything essential missing please let me know and I'll look into making some changes.
