S13E20: Avoid These Top Trauma Training & Gear Mistakes
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🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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About This Episode:
In this episode we talk about common mistakes people make with trauma gear and trauma training in a concealed carry context. We discuss what a basic trauma kit should include, why compact bleeding-control kits matter, and why proper items like pressure dressings, wound packing material, tourniquets, gloves, and chest seals are important.
We also cover the problem of relying on improvised substitutes instead of proper equipment and the need to match gear with training. We close by discussing the value of first aid, CPR, AED, Stop the Bleed, and more advanced trauma classes, along with deliberate practice so bleeding-control skills can be used under stress.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Concealed Carry podcast, season 13, episode 20. |
| 0:15.0 | And welcome to the Concealed Carry podcast, part of the concealed carry.com network, |
| 0:19.8 | brought to you by HK. |
| 0:21.9 | Today is Thursday, May 21st, 2026 as of the live recording of this episode. |
| 0:28.9 | And I am your host, Riley Bowman. |
| 0:31.0 | And I'm joined today by an old friend who has come back, Brian McLaughlin. |
| 0:37.1 | Thanks for having me, Riley. Glad to have you, my man. It's been too long. |
| 0:41.8 | It has been a little while. It feels good to be back. |
| 0:45.4 | Yeah. As many of you probably have figured out, Brian's gone on to some other opportunities these last couple of years. |
| 0:52.4 | We've missed him dearly. It's good times back in the day when we had you on the podcast pretty regularly. |
| 0:59.9 | And of course, you know, producing a bunch of content and stuff for Mountain Medical |
| 1:04.7 | YouTube channel and different things. |
| 1:06.5 | And so we have a lot to thank Brian for for all the work he put in here for years. It's my pleasure. It's fun hanging out with you guys. I have it a blast. Yeah. Today, one of the reasons I called you up or I texted you and it was like, hey, man, I'd like you to come on. It's Stop the Bleed Month. Stop the Bleed Day. In fact, is today, Thursday, May |
| 1:29.6 | 21st, Stop the Bleed Day. So this whole week, we're celebrating a Stop to Bleed Week and the month |
| 1:34.9 | is, like I said, it's Stop to Bleed Month. So we've got a big promotion going on right now. You can save |
| 1:39.6 | a pretty good chunk of money. I think it's 15% off at Mountain Menmedical.com. |
| 1:45.2 | Go to Mountainemmedical.com forward slash STB for Stop the Bleed. |
| 1:50.0 | Mountainanmedical.com forward slash STB. |
| 1:53.5 | And stock up on and save big on trauma kits and gear. |
| 1:58.5 | I think it's all components, all the kits. So even if you just want to get |
| 2:02.2 | a refill kit, you know, or just buy a few components that you need to refresh some things with |
| 2:07.6 | or put together your own kit. We have very competitive pricing on all the different components. |
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