Updated EDC photo.

RovyVon Aurora A5

Munkees clippers

Keysmart

Magpul wallet that's getting a little long in the tooth. Time for something new.

CJRB Pyrite

Rey Light TiLan

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Pocket dump, kinda

All the things on me at the end of the night

- Leatherman wave+ with nylon sheath

- BIC lighter, leatherman micra and space pen with extra keys in leather organizer

- High Life bottle cap

- Galaxy watch

- Chain with pendants

- Multi tool belt

- Double nip of Jack

- Ontario Rat I

- Spyderco Tenacious

- Kershaw S.P.E.W.

- Engraved Zippo with belt pouch

- Custom leather wallet

- Pack of Marlboro Southern Cuts

My current EDC.

From left(ish) to right:

Car key and Foursevens AAA light

Spyderco Military

Airpods in Spigen case

Topo Designs Micro Pouch (my wallet)

Beretta 92 mag with Palmetto Leather holster

G Shock 5600 solar

Arktype HK type keychain

LTT Beretta 92 Elite

POCKET DUMP: ER scrub pants edition!

This is what I keep in my scrub pants every night when I work in the ER. Yes, it is a lot. Yes, I am a whacker. But almost everything here has been something that at least once I’d needed fast and didn’t fucking have. So; from top to bottom, left to right:

1. Writing utensils, left hip pocket; I carry way too many pens because nurses are thieves. Also always at least one off-color pen for signing things that will get photocopied and ALWAYS a sharpie.

2. IV start tourniquets, hanging from elastic loop below left hip pocket; I keep these here because it lets me grab them fast when I need them and also I think it looks cool as fuck that they swing around as I walk.

3. Lighters, left appendix pocket; for lighting cigars.

4. Retractible measuring tape, back left pocket; Ok, this is kind of another vanity thing. There’s this super old ER doc (like labcoat and button-up shirt old) that always carried one of these, and I thought it was kinda cool. I use it to measure out ortho-glass for postmolds and for laceration descriptions in centimeters.

5. Hemostat thingy, clipped to left appendix belt loop; ok so this thing is kinda fun. I keep two sizes of transpore tape and a roll of durapore tape on this where I can get at them in a hurry, I also keep IV disinfecting caps on it and a bunch of tiny yellow rubber bands that come in handy for all sorts of shit.

6. Waterproof notebook, left back pocket; transferred directly from my tac pants, this now holds phone numbers for different departments in the hospital and a running record board of batshit insane lab values (highest troponin I’ve personally seen was 27108[high-sensitivity])

7. ACLS Cardiac Arrest algorithm card, left back pocket; I keep this so I don’t have to actually memorize Hs and Ts, and also because I’ve written the doses for my ROSC pressors (Levo, Epi, and Dopamine) on it.

8. Pressors dosage card, left back pocket; this was a gift from a hospital pharmacist and might be the one thing on this list that I haven’t had to use (yet).

9. Wallet, right back pocket; Always keep this on me. I think I already talked about this in my other pocket dump post, or I just said it deserves its own post (which it does, gotta get around to that)

10. Extra gloves, left back pocket; always gotta keep some extras.

11. Badge, clipped to right appendix belt loop; so this has my name on the front, and the “Paramedic” rocker along the bottom says it on both sides. The bar code taped to the back is actually a hack that I figured out to bypass a system check in our glucometers (don’t tell management) and I also keep a keyring on the back. The keyring has the key to my break room locker, a restraint key, an IV tubing clamp that I’ve modified to act as a key for our IV pumps, and a few very special reminders to get out of The Hood in one piece at the end of my shift.

12. Leatherman Raptor trauma shears, right hip pocket; these things were a gift, but having used them for years now, I’d buy them myself if I didn’t already have them. Good shit. Worth the pretty penny.

13. Hemostat, shoved through rear belt loop and clipped to pants; these I use for miscellaneous tasks around the ER. Fixing things, clamping lines, temporarily clamping prematurely spiked IV bags, all kinds of shit.

14. Extra roll of transpore tape, right hip pocket; this tape is hard to come by in our ER, so I always keep an extra roll on me

15. 19g and 22g needles and empty 6mL syringe, right cargo pocket; for transferring blood to vacu-tubes or for giving meds.

16. Surgical scissors, right cargo pocket; I started carrying these after we had an emergent birth during which nobody had a good set of scissors for the doc to do an emergency episiotomy with. I use them sparingly and only for cuts that need to be cleaner than what I’d use my raptors for.

17. Flushes, right external cargo pocket; ALWAYS carry flushes when you work ER.

18. J loops and tegaderms, right cargo pocket; always forgotten at the worst times.

19. Mini IV Start kit, right cargo pocket; I honestly don’t know why I have this, because I pretty much carry copies of everything in it already, but here we are.

20. Sureprep wipes, right cargo pocket; Ok, so these are actually pretty cool. They come in Foley catheter kits and are supposed to be used to prep the thigh for securement of the Foley, but hardly anybody actually uses them. I swipe them up and save them because when you get a SUPER sweaty patient come in, these work great to create a sticky, but also aseptic, area to start and secure an IV. These have honestly worked magic for me, can’t overstate how much the medical world sleeps on these.

21. Djarum Black (Ruby) cigars, right external cargo pocket. If my health insurance asks, I’ve never smoked in my life. Truth be told, I only smoke at work, and these things hit like a truck. I like them because after one taste, the homeless hangarounds stop asking to bum a smoke off me. Too harsh even for them. Smokers get more breaks than non-smokers anyways.

22. Bulova Marine Star wristwatch, inside of right wrist; my last pocket dump I talked about my Isobrite watch and how cool it was. I still have it, still use it most of the time at work, but my Bulova is easier to clean whenever I get blood on it or otherwise contaminate it. Bulova makes a pretty stout watch, and this thing has held up pretty well through everything I’ve put it through, and I’ve put it through a lot.

23. Large-bore IVs (14g and 16g), right cargo pocket; these were the first things I started carrying because I realized I needed them in a hurry and didn’t have them. I’ve started carrying them on me all the time, and honestly?literally the most badass feeling in the world to pull a 14g out of your own pocket and sink it into the arm of someone who needs it.

Well I think that’s everything. I know it sounds like a lot, but honestly it’s not too bad. Heres what everything looks like when I wear it into work:

LOADOUT: Redundancy

Two is one and one is none.

I don’t have drawers full of extra carry options but for all the basics I make sure I have choice or, if necessary, a backup available in my pack. 

Fellman Watch Co. Beartooth V2

Leatherman Bit Kit

Olight i3T

Spyderco Techno

Pierce The Dark Patch

Leatherman Wave BO

Seiko SNE095P2

Olight S1R Baton

Zippo 1941 Replica Lighter with Butane Insert

Pocket dump. I have all of this in my pockets every day even though I primarily work from home.

I hate carrying two phones.