What are 10 things that should be within a first aid apparatus and why?
Answers: My complete first aid kit includes:
* First aid guide
* Foil blanket
* Instant ice pack
* Eye wash pod 20 ml
* 10 non-alcoholic wipe
* 2 gauze swabs 7.5x7.5 cm
* Rehydration sachet
* Water gel for burns
* Large burn dressing
* Single-use thermometer
* Micropore tape 2.5 cm x 9.1 m
* Tufkut scissors
* 2 pairs nitrile gloves
* 6 safety pins
* Resuscitation face shield
* Revive aid
* 4 triangular bandage
* 2 small, 4 medium and 2 large dressings
* 2 eye pad dressings
* 2 crepe roller bandage 7.5 cm x 4.5 m
* 20 clear waterproof and 20 fabric plasters
* 2 each of non-adherent bandage 5x5 cm and 10x10 cm
* Survival sack
I stock up my normal kit after every call out.
My spare paraphernalia in the boot of my car includes:
* 85 individually wrapped sterile adhesive dressings
* two sterile eye pad
* four large triangular calico bandages
* six medium sterile dressing pad
* two large sterile dressing pads
* two medium sterile dressings
* two sterile non-adherent spongy dressings
* two sterile non-adherent absorbent dressings
* one roll of hypo-allergenic tape
* one pair clothing shear scissors
* six pairs of prevailing conditions vinyl gloves
* six alcohol-free antiseptic wipes
* six safety pins.
On a call out, it really depends on if I know the situation or not, but if I don't, after ten essentials that go in my smaller first aid bag are:
1. Gloves
2. Face shield
3. Gauze
4. Antiseptic wipe
5. Micro pore tape
6. Triangular bandages
7. Strapping for sprains
8. Eye pads
9. Revive aids
10. Survival sack Source(s): A British Red Cross registered first aider
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Well I don't know whats suppost to be surrounded by there but these are the main things I put in mine when going away to our coast shack in Wedge Island because there are no hospitals there single a nurse and not close by.1.Bandaids
2.Gauze/ Nonstick dressing pads
3.Tape
4. A triangular cloth ( for elevating sprained elbows arms, etc can also be used as a tourniquet)
5. Antiseptic ointment/ creme
6. Burn cream/ burn blots
7. Eye wash/ drops
8. Fine point tweezers (for removing splinters or debris from bigger cuts/wounds.
9. Pain relief ( advil/ tylenol / panadol your choice, but something to bring a restlessness down)
10. Shock blanket
Other things that I include in mine.. ( hubby calls it the kitchen sink, as mine is a big tackle box)
11. cold rime compress ( squeeze it and it becomes cold)
12. stingose treats bee stings, mosquito bites etc
13. Ace bandage for sprains
14. Detol antibacterial astringent.
15. Alcohol wipes
16. betadine cream, detol ointment, pawpaw ointment
17. calamyne lotion
18. medicines for anything from a sore throat, to diareah and vomiting.
19. A hypodermic and thread just in case we cant return with to the first aid shack in time.
20. lengths of linen for tourniquets / bandages.
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emergency stroke ...for holding things together like splints on fingers etc..bandages sterile..for bleeding
lancets..for getting splinters etc... out
ipicac .for an OD of narcotics. call poison control give or take a few poisons et...
charcoal .for acid based fluids that may have be injested.
medical bandana for holding broken bones close and stable
splints, antiseptic for cleansing wounds
a book about each case you may encounter surrounded by case you panic and forget
an airway cover,...so as to not exchange body fluids to get the party to breathe again.
a blanket ..shock
and simple bandaids and aspirin Source(s): medic
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Moleskin for blisterBand-Aids for obvious reasons
Topical Ointment for rashes
Aloe Gel for burns
A tourniquet for fruitless cuts
A mouth guard for CPR
A flashlight (never know when you'll trip in the dark
Gauze or athletic tape for sprained ankles
Antiseptic for cleaning cuts
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Bandaids, cotton, wrapers, alcohol, scisors, aspiron, pills, stitches, hand ointment and a cloht! Dude, It's obvious.