Travel Safely: Create your own DIY first aid kit for the road

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Five missing items and a comment:
1) CPR facemask (protect yourself first)

2) Tape (for securing pads, other things). I'd suggest two kinds, athletic-type for taping up ankles and wrists and paper tape for other uses

3) Butterfly closures for small cuts

4) A sharpie or equivalent for writing notes on persons skin so you don't forget times things happened, if there is still debris in a wound, etc.

5) An ab-pad for big odd wounds. Every now and then, you may have to deal with a big bleed or just a large chunk of road rash that you want to protect or provide direct pressure on until you can get to better assistance.

A bandana isn't large enough for most slings -- its worth shredding a bedsheet or buying a real triangular bandage and practicing with it. And use non-latex _EVERYTHING_, bandages, gloves, etc. There are a lot more of us latex-reactive people running around than you think, so unless you want to add an epi-pen to your kit, just lose the latex. You can easily find comparably priced latex-free gear these days.

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