Medical Equipment

Stabilising a patient

Medical equipment carried on an Ambulance is to assist the crew to stabilise a patient before transferring them to a hospital or clinic.  It may also assist in recussitation of a patient if required.

The equipment will include the following items

• Phillips HeartStart MRx monitor/defibrillator
• Red Kit (Trauma/Haemorrhage kit, features dressings, trauma shears, bandages, saline for irrigation, Sodium Chloride 0.9% 500mL bags for IV infusion, IV giving set etc)
• Blue Kit (Airway kit, features all the equipment needed to clear and secure an airway like forceps and oropharyngeal airways and endotracheal tube airways, the bag-valve-mask to ventilate patient etc)
• Yellow drug kit (sits in the red kit, carries all the emergency medicines like adrenaline and ventolin etc, plus cannulation equipment)
• Green O2 sock, carries a C size oxygen cylinder plus deliver devices such as a face mask.
• Portable suction unit
• Maternity kit
  
  

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