First Aid (Check Your Gear!!!)

There was an incident a couple years ago where a girl on Cathedral Peak in Tuolumne got hit in the head with a rock knocked off by a party higher up. Happened to be an ER doc on route that did compressions for quite some time and re gained a pulse. I think she ultimately died of the open head wound, and was likely brain dead on impact.

Anyone remember this/ can find the post on it? 

curt86iroc wrote:

if you're not sure if someone is unconscious, try to insert an OPA. they'll let you know real quick :)

no, sternum rub

Chris K wrote:

no, sternum rub

I think Curt86iroc was having a laugh

Not sure is this has been mentioned, but Cavit by 3M (or maybe other similar products) has proven helpful to me in the past during a 12 day through hike. Someone lost a cap on their tooth, I had been carrying Cavit for a few years, finally busted it out and capped off the tooth for the remaining 5 days of the trip. The friend ended up leaving the Cavit fix in for a month or so before having the tooth recapped by a dentist without any complications. The tube of Cavit weighs little to nothing and worked after sitting in my big first aid kit for a few years.
The only other solution for a painful chipped tooth/exposed nerve while a few days out from society is to kill the nerve with crushed aspirin and lose the tooth so the Cavit didn’t sound like a burden to carry.
Anyone have any other experience with chipped teeth in the backcountry? 

Well, since there appears to be transition to video based instruction, here are a couple more. Warning - NSFW!
For men, and ​for women​​​

Ryan O wrote:

I think Curt86iroc was having a laugh

winner!

amarius wrote: Well, since there appears to be transition to video based instruction, here are a couple more. Warning - NSFW!
For men, and for women

The really funny thing is that - as anyone trained in CPR knows - you need to expose bare skin. They missed that in these videos, which, given the racy premise, is a real loss.