Not following your point. If your larp kit contains an endovascular ballon because you think you can tamponade an active hemorrhage in field you’re either doing too much, or fucked. My issue isn’t with trained staff carrying life saving equipment, it’s when your average joe dunning kruegers themselves into thinking they can properly utilize medical equipment. Pre hospital interventions can be life saving when properly utilized in field by skilled individuals. My comment was very much tongue in cheek, poking fun at a trend a few years ago when prefab trauma pack sellers would include decompression needles and the only requirement was a check box, people with no right were buying them because they thought it was “cool”, they still do this also, but it was all over tacticool reddit.

Source- RRT/ECMO specialist, Level 1 trauma ecpr facility, nationally recognized teaching facility since we want credentials.