Emergency medical supplies : 5 emergency medical supplies

Emergency medical supplies, which are a set of equipment and multiple devices that work to help and get the largest possible time for the patient until they provide him the necessary assistance.

we can't talk about all Emergency medical supplies, but we give you in this article a five supplies that necessary to help people

Defibrillator

Such devices have become essential in large centers due to the benefits they carry as human beings can be saved and resuscitated.

Defibrillators are devices that correct the heartbeat by sending an electrical pulse or shock to the heart. They are used to prevent or correct an irregular heartbeat, an irregular heartbeat or too slow or too fast. Pacemakers can also restore the heartbeat if the heart stops suddenly.

First aid kit

A box that includes a set of medical tools and equipment that a normal person or a health man needs, such as a doctor or nurse that allows him to practice his work and save a lot off people from death

What the fund provides can treat or reduce a critical condition of a person’s injuries until he is transferred to the hospital to complete treatment

Some examples of what the box contains :

• Sterile gauze dressings
• Plasters 
• Tweezers
• Sticky tape
• Safety pins
• Sterile gloves
• Alcohol-free cleansing wipes
• Scissors
• Painkillers such as paracetamol 
• Antiseptic
• Thermometer (preferably digital)
• Distilled water for cleaning wounds

Bag valve mask

In many cases, the patient may fall unconscious, with inability or difficulty breathing

Also, some diseases such as tuberculosis or some injuries or accidents leave the patient or the injured in a condition that is difficult for him to breathe

There is a portable device that helps the patient to breathe until he arrives at the hospital

It called “bag valve mask”, or the Ambu bag, is a handheld tool that is used to deliver positive pressure ventilation to any subject with insufficient or ineffective breaths. It consists of a self-inflating bag, one-way valve, mask, and an oxygen reservoir.

Emergency blanket

In the event of an accident or fall of a patient unconscious, and due to the patient's lack of movement, his temperature begins to gradually decrease, which causes him to enter into other problems, as his health deteriorates.

It is important to keep the patient's body temperature moderate until he is taken to the hospital for necessary treatment

Therefore, an emergency blanket plays an important role in maintaining a moderate patient body temperature

Emergency device : Remote patient monitoring 

 

Today, in the context of the progress we know in the biomedical world of new inventions and innovations

There are new devices that have been invented

A remote patient monitoring device that works with a GPS feature

The device can predict if the patient will enter into an indisposed state and send a message to the patient's family with the exact location of him.

In addition to requesting assistance by making a call to the competent authorities (emergency number) to give him the help

A small device that is carried in a person's pocket, but has the ability to help many people and give them the ability to live their lives naturally

We will talk about this device with detail in another article soon