Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program To market this as a first-aid kit for 25 people is a bit audacious and potentially irresponsible. There is not enough in here to treat 25 people, unless they have nothing worse than a paper cut or a minor scrape.
Contents:
1 instant cold pack (disposable and non-reusable)
50 alcohol prep pads
50 adhesive bandages 3/4" x 3" (10 sheets of 5)
2 antibiotic packets
2 burn cream packets
10 latex gloves
1 pair of metal scissors
1 plastic tweezer
10 gauze pads
1 elastic bandage
1 roll of tape
This product is marketed by a company in CT called Acme United Corporation (all kit components made in China). Is this the same Acme corporation that sells items to Wile E. Coyote?
The manufacturer even dares to count the "handbook" and registration card as 2 separate items. The handbook is simply a single sheet of printed 8 1/2" x 14" paper folded over twice. The registration card tells you to go to their website to register. The box itself is plastic and of adequate thickness, but the latch is very flimsy. The tape is very poor quality and thin. It's not the fabric kind you might expect. It's thin cheap plastic and rips very easily. All the sports tape I see sold on Amazon is 1 1/2" wide. This one is 1/2" wide. It does not have enough surface area or cling to maintain adhesion to a wound area. It has about the same sticking power as a piece of Post-It notes. The cream packets are less than the size of a pack of restaurant ketchup.
The box is not compartmentalized or divided for proper organization of the items, so all the bandages and things just slosh around -wasting time rummaging through the contents, even if it's just a few extra seconds, is not good when someone is hurt. This kit is probably suitable to give to your child to play hospital with (minus the scissors), but not adequate for real world first aid use. Stay away from this item unless you love wasting money on substandard goods. Order something like this instead: First Aid Kit With Hard Case326 pcsFirst Aid Complete Care Kit Exceeds OSHA & ANSI Guidelines Ideal for the Workplace Disaster Preparedness (Color Red) or put together your own with common OTC items.
I would be more forgiving with the score if the product were just marketed as an ordinary personal first-aid kit, then it would probably be 3 stars instead of 1. But as is, the marketing claims and price versus reality warrant a 1 star review.
UPDATE: To say that this product "Meets or exceeds Federal OSHA Regulation 1910.151b" is also disingenuous. All 1910.151b compliance requires is that: "In the absence of an infirmary, clinic, or hospital in near proximity to the workplace which is used for the treatment of all injured employees, a person or persons shall be adequately trained to render first aid. Adequate first aid supplies shall be readily available." It makes no specifications as to quantity of supplies, quality, or what items are necessary. How can you "exceed" a Yes/No test? You can only meet or fail to meet 1910.1510b. You cannot exceed it since it has no degrees of compliance.
Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program Where to begin. The Physicians Care Office First Aid Kit For 25 People is not much more use than a box of band-aids, for 20-times the money. What you have here is a few dollars (at the most) worth of of first aid supplies packaged in a very cheap plastic case.
The Case......The case is an injection molded plastic box with molded plastic handle and latches. The latches are so poorly made that only one of them will engage and it just barely does. This is not a flaw in manufacturing, it's the way the box is designed. The handle is molded at the bottom of the box with two screw holes to mount on a wall. If you were to mount this on a wall, normal household vibration would eventually knock open the one closed latch and spill the contents.
The Contents......The contents of the box consist of four tiny sachets of creams, a tiny roll of tape, five pair of rubber gloves repackaged in ziplock bags, a stack of band-aids, a small box of alcohol wipes, a small elastic bandage, one very small instant cold ice pack, a few squares of gauze, a laughable pair of soft plastic tweezers right out of a toy doctor's kit and an almost equally lame pair of scissors.
A nearly identical First Aid kit by the same manufacturer is listed elsewhere on Amazon Physicians Care 25 Person First Aid Kit, Contains 113 Pieces for 1/6th the price. What's going on here guys? Floating a trial balloon to see if you can get away with it?
Normally, I don't consider price in a product review, but in this case it's necessary. I went through the "shelves" here at Amazon and within a few minutes found from 10 to 50 times the amount of the same items with professional tweezers, bandage scissors and a water tight tub to put it all in for less money. You should do the same
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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program The kit has 131 pieces the way that a box of 100 screws has 101 pieces (if you count the box as a piece. Fifty alcohol pads, ten latex gloves and fifty band-aids (gauze pads) does not 110 pieces make; and who would count the first aid booklet as a piece. Why not count the box and the cover and make it 132. If you brought this out at your kids soccer or baseball game, the other parents would think you were a cheapskate or a numbskull.
Now when my daughter and her friends bring out their dolls and ambulance and Emergency Room stuff, they'll have some other play stuff. I know that we get children's books all the time, but this is above and beyond.
Zeb Kantrowitz
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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program I happen to work in an office, where paper-cuts are a daily event and occasionally someone burns themselves on a toaster oven. We go through first Aid supplies like Oprah goes through SPANX Power Panties Shapewear. To say this kit is for 25 people? is just plain false, and hilarious.
To charge (at this time) $36 bucks for this? is internet highway robbery. Its a small kit, and when I received it the sticker on the front wasn't properly put on so it had giant air bubbles in it, so 10 points there for aesthetics. Open it up and its just all dumped in there, no pockets to organize, no compartments, just thrown in there. 131 Pieces..i only counted 128? Lets break that down:
5 pairs of rubber gloveswhich is 10 "pieces". cost? GLOVES NITRILE P/F MEDIUM ***G Size: 100 6 bucks for 100. 60 cents worth.
1 blue pair of tweezers, that couldnt pull out anything if they tried , they are sold for 3 bucks for 10 on amazon.PLASTIC TWEEZER 10/PKG Individualy pack .30 cents.
1 ace bandage Grafco Elastic "Ace Type" Bandages 4"x 5yd Box/10 .90 Cents..if that.
50 alcohol prep pads Antiseptic Alcohol Wipe Towelettes Medifirst 50/box $1.55
10 Gauze pads. Red Cross First Aid Sterile Gauze Pads, Large-10 count, 4" x 4" $1.00
Medical Scissors (very cheap ones) Prestige Medical 4 1/2" Iris Scissors $3.25
1 tiny roll of tape Johnson & Johnson All Purpose Cloth Tape, 1/2 Inch 1 roll $1.00
1 instant ice cold pack Dynarex Instant Cold Pack, 4 Inches x 5 Inches, 24-Count .50 cents.
2 packs of first aid burn cream First aid/burn cream.9 gm packs144 per dispenser box .22 cents
2 packs of triple antibiotic HART Health Brand Triple Antibiotic Ointment, 0.5 gm Packet, 144 per Box .22 cents
50 band aids Coverlet Latex-Free Adhesive Dressings Strips 1 inch X 3 Inches,100 / Box $2.80
1 box Firstaid Kit #10 Plastic Empty 2.35
...SO thats only 128 items..with box 129 with a piece of paper telling you HOW to do first aid? 130 (rolls eyes). with a retail worth of MAYBE 14.69 and thats being generous. All of this stuff is super generic, the band aids arent fabric, or waterproof (which you need at work) There isnt enough for 2 people, much less 25.
You are better off buying your own stuff, and putting it in an empty box.
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Bottom line is this kit contains a lot of useful items, but they are of mediocre quality. Even the case is poorly made. However, it is better than no kit as everything is functional. I think fewer bulky items like gloves, and maybe some variety in bandages (like add some steri strips, etc), and better overall quality would help this product out a lot.
Contents:
The bandages have hardly any absorbent material, and the adhesive is marginal. There are 50 standard sized (3/4"x3") bandages.
Much of the kit is made up of bulky items. It includes 10 latex gloves (5 pairs), bagged in pairs. I wish they would say 5 pair instead, especially since they are bagged in pairs, but they want to get their piece count higher. I question the need for 5 pairs of latex gloves. I also question why they use latex gloves, when most of the other products are latex free.
The elastic bandage is a nice addition, and seems to be decent enough.
The medical tape is very easy (too easy) to tear and is not the cloth tape I am used to, but more like paper.
The gauze pads are very porous and stringy. Not the typical gauze pads I am used to seeing.
The case has a nice rubber gasket to make it appear leak resistant, but a small amount of water inside and it just pours right out around the gasket which doesn't seal properly.
The scissors crush paper more than they cut it.
The first aid "handbook" is actually a folded piece of paper, which doesn't even fit the definition of a book. It is a pamphlet.
The cold pack is a neat addition, but seems totally unnecessary and just adds a lot of bulk to the kit (along with the gloves). It does get ice cold though (one time use, disposable).
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I had a box of the previous version of these, and liked them quite well. One pad would do for 24 hours if it stayed dry, and could even be removed and reapplied with the adhesive continuing to hold. The pad was woven cotton, and didn't get pesky fibers stuck in the wound.
