a good first aid kit (Health and Safety)

[rickb]

And, as I understand it, this a daily preventative anyway - if I run into someone having a heat attack, getting them off the mountain and knowing CPR will probably be more important than trying to give someone in the processes of having one a couple of aspirin anyway

From what I am understanding, knowing CPR won't be important at all, unless there is a difibrillator nearby. I am eager to be corrected, but some of the informed posts make it sound like CPR in the backcountry is an excersize in futility.

On the otherhand, giving an aspirin can help the survival rate, or at least lessen the damage of a mild heart attack. Or not?