Fully Stocked Trauma First Aid Kit – First Responder II Bag with Tools, Gauze, Bandages, Scissors & Gloves – Compact & Portable – OSHA and ANSI Compliant – Blue

This kit has a great variety of first aid and trauma gear. As an upcoming EMT student, it is an excellent bag to keep in the trunk of my car. Originally, the order said that the bag was blue, but I received a neon orange color with reflective strips on the side and I personally like it much better than blue. It will be easier to locate in a rush, so it's very nice. This kit comes with your standard gear like bandages, gauze pads, reflective blanket, BP cuff, tourniquet, and much more. It even comes with a tube of glucose, which I'm not sure why it would be included in the kit, but it works for me because I have a good friend who has Type-1 diabetes, so I keep it in the kit for him. The bag is very spacious and definitely has room for more equipment, so I'll be sticking a BVM in there. Overall, an excellent bag for its price.

Loved this. It's small but not too bad. In the pictures it looks like medium almost large size bag but it's super small. However, it comes with a lot of equipment. I ended up loving it, I think it's adorable.

Great little go bag to keep in the car or home. I would definitely add more stuff and replace somethings like the tourniquet. Also be sure to learn how to use everything, and know what you can and cannot do. Otherwise it’s a cool little bag that fits mostly anywhere to customize and add things to your liking. Great value as well. The bag itself is good quality, nothing special.

I'd like to start this off by saying that I am a lifeguard and a red cross instructor. I spend all day around stuff like this, and I know that having medical equipment around can and does save lives. That being said, I bought this kit to restock my personal trauma kit, not for work. For my purposes, it was perfect. While I do have experience with a lot of equipment like this, do not take ANYTHING I say as medical advice, and if you do buy this kit, do not use ANYTHING in it that you haven't been formally trained to use. This kit is in my opinion an excellent value for the money, but it definitely has some drawbacks. The major pros are the cost, the quantity of medical supplies you're getting, and the distribution of value within the kit(I'll explain in a minute). The Cons are THE TOURNIQUET****, the quality of the bag(not an issue for me, but may be for you), and the lack of warnings that should come along with equipment like this. For 40 dollars, you can't possibly expect professional quality medical equipment. (For reference, a single CAT tourniquet from NARescue costs about $35) What you CAN expect is "good enough" medical equipment. There is no need to spend 20 bucks on a box of gauze pads. This kit has "good enough" band aids, gauze, and other consumables so it can give you a mostly complete kit at a good price. ***If you are looking to start a kit from this, you will NEED to buy a good tourniquet from a reputable brand. The TQ included with this kit is total junk. The CAT, R.A.T.S., SOFTTW, and SWATT tourniquets are all great. (SWAT-T and RATS are both under 20 bucks)*** You will also need TRAINING and MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE!!! If you want to keep the ammonia inhalants and/or OPA's, take a Red Cross EMR or professional EMT class to learn how to use them. Those 2 items in particular are EXTREMELY dangerous if used incorrectly. If you aren't certified to use them, DON'T!!!!! In summary, this is an awesome first aid kit FOR THE MONEY! It can handle most boo-boos, and minor to moderate trauma. If you're looking for professional quality medical equipment, this isn't for you, but if you just want a good car or home medical kit, you won't find anything better for the price.

I'd been researching quite a bit, trying to find a good first aid kit for my family's emergency backpack (to be kept in the car - we're in earthquake territory). It seems like other first aid kits just didn't offer enough. That's when I realized I needed to include the word "trauma" in my searches. This lead me to many more appropriate kits that were larger and had a larger variety of necessary items. However they were a lot more money. This one seemed too good to be true when I saw it here on Amazon so I actually called the company in Brooklyn, N.Y. Hopefully I didn't make the guy rethink what they're selling cause I kept saying what a good deal it seemed to be. ;) The bag is about the size I'd imagined - not as small as most first aid bags but not one of these big tote ones you imagine the pros having either. It's a good medium size, maybe a bit larger than I expected but not too large for putting in an emergency backpack. Also, if you don't add a lot more items to it, it's flexible so you can shove it in there or even empty contents (use just the bags inside it) if you're really concerned about space. It's a good bright color (blue) and sturdy and roomy, and has two roomy pockets on either side that are empty. I put toiletries on side and water-purification items on the other. The items came in two sealed bags and everything inside seems to be of good quality, e.g. scissors don't seem flimsy at all and everything else seems to be of good quality as well. We'll add excedrin and sunscreen and other things we might need (and if I saw iodine in there - can't remember now - be careful cause iodine allergies can be deadly though most people aren't allergic). My only complaint is that it doesn't come with a little booklet of instructions including CPR, but I assume that's cause it's more of a professional's bag. Frankly, I wouldn't have the first clue about how to use the CPR mask and all its little contraptions, nor a lot of the other stuff. I'm also planning on calling them back to see if they have their own booklet of instructions I can get from them just cause it'll fit the products better. If not, I'll just go buy one. So with that in mind, it's not quite as inexpensive - if I have to go buy a book still! Last thing I want to say is that there's a lot of stuff in those bags so I suggest looking them over in advance with some sort of instruction book (however you get it) unless you're already a pro - because if you have an emergency on your hands and have to rummage through the stuff, it might be a bit overwhelming. What's nice is that each of the two plastic transparent bags have lists facing the outside which say what's inside of each bag. So that will definitely help. Edit: I finally got all the stuff out the other night and organized and labelled each item, separating them into smaller ziplock style bags. Since these will be in an emergency backpack which needs to be lightweight, the big bag it came with is just taking up room and adding unnecessary weight albeit not much. What I did while doing this is I looked up youtube videos about how to use each of these items, based on the items' names that were on the lists the bag came with. So now I have a fairly strong understanding of how to use these things. I also added a few items to such as a Quikclot, a thermometer, a CPR mask to go with the shield, a pen light that has replaceable batteries, israeli battle dressing (compression bandage to wrap around a pad on a wound), a pair of latex-free gloves (which brings it to two pairs which should be enough for true emergencies), aspirin in case of a heart attack, tweezers, and a small mirror. Many of these ideas are thanks to other people's suggestions in these reviews.

I started looking into a first aid kit to keep in my car to be used in case of an emergency to either to help someone or myself. I even bought a first aid kit years ago, which consisted mostly of band aids and was sufficient for minor cuts and scratches, but not nearly enough for serious emergencies. In a typical car accident these small injuries are the least of your worries. In a serious accident you get bleeding, head injuries, broken bones, burns, knocked out teeth, loss of conscious, shock, and even a cardiac arrest. That's when I started looking for a trauma kit. Things I've added to the kit: 3 - Pairs of non-latex gloves 1 - 36" SAM Splint 2 - SAM Finger Splints 1 - 35g Celox pouch 1 - SOFTT-W 1.5" Tourniquet (replaced the CAT Tourniquet I had before) 1 - Halo Chest Seal 1 - 6" Israeli bandage with sliding pads 1 - Ambu Res-Cue CPR mask (in addition to the CPR Face Shield) 1 - bottle of eyewash solution 1 - Save-A-Tooth 1 - Silver Cinch Compression Combat Dressing (The "H" Bandage) 1 - Z-Pak Gauze Dressing 1 - Tac Med BLAST Bandage 1 - H&H Combat Eye Shield 6 - 3M Steri-Strip reinforced Skin Closures 1 - metal tweezers 5 - packets of 325mg UrgentRx Critical Care Aspirin to Go 1 - small hand sanitizer 1 - ADC RESPONDER Jr. Horizontal Holster (#215BK) 1 - Water Jel 4" X 4" Burn Dressing 4 - BURNFREE Pain Relieving Gel 3.5 gram Packets 2 - 95cm Velcro hook and loop straps for the SAM splint 1 - Biohazard bag 1 - small Swiss Army knife 1 - small roll of duct tape (from SOL) Things I'm not keeping: - wire splint (replaced by the SAM splint) - tourniquet (replaced by the SOFTT-W 1.5" Tourniquet) - airway kit (requires special training to use, and takes up a lot of space) - seat belt cutter (replaced by the Victorinox Swiss Army Rescue Tool - 53900) - ammonia inhalants I'm not keeping the ammonia inhalants because some people have allergies, and it is often better to keep the casualty unconscious while the medics get there. I combined the Water Jel dressing, BURNFREE packets and the Koolaburn dressings, that came with the kit, into a separate burn care pack that's labeled and can be easily taken out. I chose the Velcro straps of this length, because the strap of the SOFTT-W 1.5" Tourniquet is about that long, and if you have to splint a leg, then a shorter strap might not be long enough. The holster I bought is 6" long which fits perfectly into the bag. I'm really happy with it. It has 3 compartments, where things are inserted and secured with a Velcro strap and it can be attached to a belt. I put there the shears, forceps, penlight, tongue depressor, tweezers and the swiss army knife. Now they're all in one thing and scattered throughout the bag. The biohazard bag is simply a clear zip-lock plastic bag that has a biohazard label, which I bought. The bag is now fully packed, and there is very little space left in it, except perhaps for some minor stuff. There are a lot of trauma kits available, some are big and expensive EMT/paramedic-level kits, and some are small for individual use. I needed something in-between to keep the person alive for these 10-20 minutes until the ambulance gets on scene. That's why I didn't include things like a needle decompression kit, and am removing the airway kit. I think this is the best starter trauma kit available on the market for the money for someone without a healthcare provider training, but in my opinion it far from complete. I do have First Aid and CPR training, but to be honest, these classes teach so little, that I had to learn more stuff on my own, especially, how to deal with trauma. So besides adding the above stuff to the kit, I had to learn how to actually use it. Before buying the additional items, I carefully researched each of them. For example, I decided to replace the supplied tourniquet with the CAT tourniquet, because the latter one has 100% success rate, according to some army research; so does Celox, that's why I chose it over QuikClot. Both Water Jel and Burnfree products have good very reviews, so I got both of them. Yes, these quality military grade items are not cheap, and I've spent more on them then on the trauma kit itself. But if it helps me or someone else, then it is worth it. Don't you want to have the best stuff when it comes to a life or health? The bag itself perfectly fits under my seat, and is not too large, but big enough to fit all of the extra stuff I bought for it. I just wish it had a bit more pockets, although there is one Velcro pocket that can be attached to either side of the middle compartment. I do recommend this trauma kit, if you don't have time to make one yourself, but if I had to look for one again, I'd probably buy an empty bag and get individual items separately. I have done enough research to put one together myself. I had to downgrade this from 4 to 3 stars recently because it didn't have enough items that I needed. What's in your trauma kit?

For exactly what I was looking for

Good basic first aid kit. As always with kits like these, I think it's important to add some additional bandages and various things to suit my use, (like a tourniquet, pressure dressing, and a SAM split) and there is enough room in the bag to allow for a reasonable additions. Bag seems reasonably well made, and tucks in my duty bag nicely for if I need to pull it out. I'd definitely add at least some extra gauze and bandaging material if you think you might deal with serious trauma, but for a basic kit in the trunk of the car or around the camp site, it's pretty good.