'Wild West' mentality lingers in modern populations of US mountain regions

Re:'Wild West' mentality lingers in modern populations of US... by pnw_hazor on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @01:46PM (#24410782)

We have a homestead in NE WA we are developing, a few weeks ago, for the first time ever, I called 911 because of a potentially dangerous laceration. We have a full first aid kit with plenty of "stop the bleed" stuff but I didn't want to take any chances. So because the bleeding was controlled we waited for the EMTs.

It took 25 minutes for the EMTs to arrive. But that is because the nearest EMT team was not on another call. Otherwise, it could have take 45-60 minutes to get a team from the next nearest town/county.

Later that day on the way home to Seattle we stopped at an urgent care to get stitches for $175.

Though, I am seriously thinking about getting an AED to keep out there.

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Re:'Wild West' mentality lingers in modern populations of US... by phobosanomaly on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @01:53PM (#24410862)

One of the posters above mentioned Wilderness First Aid, which is a great course. Wilderness First Responder goes more above-and-beyond and includes things like relocating a dislocated kneecap or shoulder, splinting, bandaging, administering injections, wound care, clearing a spine, identifying brain swelling from a head injury, etc.

You can do it in a week, living on-site.

Edit: There's also a component on helicopter operations, such as laying out a landing site for when things get really spicy.

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Re:'Wild West' mentality lingers in modern populations of US... by pnathan on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @07:05PM (#24414679)

Yeah, that's one of those remoter areas! No doubt about it. If you need an AED, definitely get it.

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