What medical equipment do you have?

[12mp82]

Lots of posts about medicines, but what about equipment and other supplies?

What bits are useful to get and what about quantities and storing them.

Bandages
Plasters
Slings
Splints
Adhesive tape
Forceps
Scissors
Tweezers
Scalpels
Oral Airways
Nasal Airways
CPR face masks
Chemical light sticks
Stethoscope
Blood pressure monitors
Syringes
Blood-oximeters
blood-sugar testers

Copies of Where there is no doctor/nurse/dentist/mid-wife

[preppingsu]

What about an obstetrics kit?

http://boundtree.co.uk/first-aid/obstet ... issors-bag

An eye wash kit?

http://boundtree.co.uk/first-aid/eye-ca ... kit-double

I'm sure there's lots of other things that you may or may not need. Trouble is can you ever be totally prepared for everything??

[12mp82]

The eye wash equipment is a good one, the wash not so good as it goes off

Had a couple of obs kits, all packed up with towels, pads, clips, scissors, aprons and gloves, then a mouse got into the box

Is there other kit more easily available that will do the same thing though?

[essgee23]

A very complex thread 12mp82 in my opinion.

Do we go basic and use a small FAK and minimal tools and rely on the fact we managed prior to all these being available? (yes with altered mortality rates maybe ) With a hefty dose of common sense and logic and trying to be practical?

The likes of making torniquets from shirt sleeves and slings from a bra etc... and the 'get me hot water and towels' for childbirth occasions. I for one do not fancy having to go through helping deliver babies thanks.

As for equipment, did you miss superglue? and some of those quick clot things (which i dont have and need to read up on)

I have pretty much what you listed, my airways are in need of replacing so will get on with that.

Have a good manual sphyg for blood pressure, but depending on the situation- is it going to be that important??

And what good are these things if we dont practise how to use them effectively or even learn in the first place...time to google that first aid course I've been meaning to get booked up.

[redskies]

I for one do not fancy having to go through helping deliver babies thanks.

Most births are fairly straightforward. If it's going to go wrong, then it'll usually go fairly spectacularly wrong, to the extent that only an emergency c-section will save the day. Things like breech births can be dealt with, I'd advise learning the basics, anything beyond that isn't going to be any help in a SHTF scenario.




(When I worked for the ambulance service, I delivered a baby over the phone. Dad was panicking like mad, kept telling me he needed to go and have a lie down! All went well, if with a certain amount of fuss, and the result was a healthy baby boy. A straightforward birth isn't difficult for the 'midwife'!)

[essgee23]

I for one do not fancy having to go through helping deliver babies thanks.

Most births are fairly straightforward. If it's going to go wrong, then it'll usually go fairly spectacularly wrong, to the extent that only an emergency c-section will save the day. Things like breech births can be dealt with, I'd advise learning the basics, anything beyond that isn't going to be any help in a SHTF scenario.




(When I worked for the ambulance service, I delivered a baby over the phone. Dad was panicking like mad, kept telling me he needed to go and have a lie down! All went well, if with a certain amount of fuss, and the result was a healthy baby boy. A straightforward birth isn't difficult for the 'midwife'!)

Excellent well done you. Hear some wonder stories about 10 minutes and no pain just whoosh heres your son/daughter...

However, have been witness to several births - none were too easy, all required interventions my hands werent designed for so to speak , some bloody serious ones!

Yes in a really dire emergency - I reckon would be ok, but testing that - no thanks.

Bless the fella needed a lay down

[Brambles]

Why is it I have never ever seen posted in one of these super duper FAK's. Salt, Glucose, Surgical Spirit, Aniseptic liquid. What's the point in having sterile equipment (that's a whole other subject) if the site cannot be cleansed well enough to prevent infection?

[essgee23]

Why is it I have never ever seen posted in one of these super duper FAK's. Salt, Glucose, Surgical Spirit, Aniseptic liquid. What's the point in having sterile equipment (that's a whole other subject) if the site cannot be cleansed well enough to revent infection?

ha good point.

electrolytes was covered in another thread somewhere so didnt bother mentioning it here.

also just took the good old universal precautions as 'basic' and therefore included in everyones FAK when i mentioned it above

[tanstaafl]

I have a few FAKs (EDC,BOB and Car) I made most up myself but this http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000 ... 03_s00_i00 got great reviews and at £8.99 I thought it was worth a punt, seems pretty good with room to add extras.


Contents:

2 Instant ice packs
1 Transparent semi-permeable dressing 6cm x 10cm
1 Transparent semi-permeable dressing 6cm x 7cm
1 Pair of scissors
14 Alcohol preparation pads
2 Anti-septic cleansing wipes
2 Soap wipes
2 Cleansing wipes
3 Anti-mosquito wipes
1 Adhesive wound dressing 6cm x 7cm
1 Adhesive wound dressing 6cm x 10cm
2 Conforming bandages 6cm x 400cm
2 Conforming bandages 8cm x 400cm
2 Conforming bandages 5cm x 450cm
1 Eye pad 4.5cm x 6.5cm
1 Pair tweezers
1 Emergency silver blanket
15 Assorted plasters
1 Abdominal pad 12.7cm x 23cm
10 Safety pins
2 Pairs surgical gloves
1 Airway/protective mouthpiece
1 Triangular bandage 90cm x 90cm x 127cm
1 Thick PBT bandage (elastic gauze bandage)
Dimensions: 24cm (9.5") x 19cm (7") x 8cm (3")

[essgee23]

I have a few FAKs (EDC,BOB and Car) I made most up myself but this http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000 ... 03_s00_i00 got great reviews and at £8.99 I thought it was worth a punt, seems pretty good with room to add extras.


Contents:

2 Instant ice packs
1 Transparent semi-permeable dressing 6cm x 10cm
1 Transparent semi-permeable dressing 6cm x 7cm
1 Pair of scissors
14 Alcohol preparation pads
2 Anti-septic cleansing wipes
2 Soap wipes
2 Cleansing wipes
3 Anti-mosquito wipes
1 Adhesive wound dressing 6cm x 7cm
1 Adhesive wound dressing 6cm x 10cm
2 Conforming bandages 6cm x 400cm
2 Conforming bandages 8cm x 400cm
2 Conforming bandages 5cm x 450cm
1 Eye pad 4.5cm x 6.5cm
1 Pair tweezers
1 Emergency silver blanket
15 Assorted plasters
1 Abdominal pad 12.7cm x 23cm
10 Safety pins
2 Pairs surgical gloves
1 Airway/protective mouthpiece
1 Triangular bandage 90cm x 90cm x 127cm
1 Thick PBT bandage (elastic gauze bandage)
Dimensions: 24cm (9.5") x 19cm (7") x 8cm (3")

is that whats in the kit? what quality is the bag its in?

im wondering if i can get all this stuff cheaper than that....