Whats in your first aid box/ medicine cupboard???

Eels100

Just a few essentials

Arnica pillules
Lavender oil
Savlon
Plasters
Hibiscrub
Aspirin
Cetirizine (antihistamine)
Loperamide (antidiarrhoea)
If that doean't cure it, nowt will!

tim_n

stethoscope
sphygmomanometer
stiff neck collars
Assorted plasters
Assorted bandages (inc triangular etc)
Safety pins
Thermometer
Assorted ambulance dressings
Tape (and duct tape)
Steripads (and tampons)
Paracetamol
Asprin (dispersable)
Pen torch
Sodium solution
CPR bag and mask
BP monitor
Gauze
Icepacks
Tough cut scissors
Nasopharangeal airways
Guedel airways
Alcohol wips
Nitrex xl gloves
Space blanket

Doesn't everyone? = )

thriftlady_2

OK, so what's one of these then - sphygmomanometer ?:D

JoeyEmma

thriftlady wrote:

OK, so what's one of these then - sphygmomanometer ?:D

Its what you take blood pressure with

tim_n

hehe = ) It's not fully stocked to my standards - no hand suction device etc...

JoeyEmma - Correct! = ) Much more accurate than the Automated cuffs.

None of it very OS I'm afraid. But if I turned up to a casulty and said 'you may have a pneumothorax but all I've got in my kit is garlic paste' they'd probably be worried about my professional ability!

Actually I guess it'd be illegal for me to use most of the traditional remedies on a patient - certainly in a professional capacity. Before splitting from my ex who was constantly giving me verrucas I used garlic which did work a bit, but bazooka! worked in two days.

(pneumothorax is a collapsed lung btw!)

JoeyEmma

tim_n wrote:

hehe = ) It's not fully stocked to my standards - no hand suction device etc...

JoeyEmma - Correct! = ) Much more accurate than the Automated cuffs.

I agree. At work they insist on buying electronic sphygs. I hate them and am tempted to buy a mechanical one of my own but I'm worried about getting it callibrated regularly (not that I've ever seen anybody actually do that but you are meant to)

tim_n

I er... borrowed mine and swap it over for new ones occasionally. It's not really borrowing... I like to think of it as 'reallocation of resources' = )

tim_n

Everyone and I mean everyone should do at least one first aid course. It's well worth joining the local St Johns and doing an FAW (first aid at work) course. It'll teach you everything you need to know esp. about the care of your own family. You'll feel a little less panicky when they start breaking things or get ill.

Since doing my course however I see casulties everywhere I look - I've been bombarded with everything now (esp since doing my ambulance course). It's also a good CV filler saying 'I feel I cope well under stress because during my weekends I contract work for London Ambulance Service and have to make life or death decisions'. Only two CPR's so far... who knows what next weekend will bring! = )

Sarahsaver

Oh yes I have a resuscitation mouthpiece, a sphyg. and a stethoscope too;)
I am sposed to be starting work for St. John's soon as an ambulance escort

tim_n

Escort? Never heard of that before! Is that similar to the Ambulance Aid 2 qualification?