What's in your First In Bag(s)?

[+medic]

I work for a BLS transfer serivce so our first in bags are a bit basic with nothing really special.

Our basic bag has in it.

ASA

Glucose

Jr and Adult Epi Pens in the side pockets

B/P cuff

Pen light

Watch

BVM with OPA's and NPA's

Bulk dressings and triangle bandages

Sam Splint

Ice and hot packs

Combi Tubes and King Airways for NH crews.

Glucometer for NH crews

2 bottles of sterile water

Assortment of guaze packs and band aids

tramua dressings

Box of Lg goves

Rolled up news paper

[Linuss]

Copied from my post on the same thing a few weeks back:

Pouch 1, IV pouch:

Crap load of syringes, ranging from 1cc to 20cc.

Assorted IV vaths

2x CAT tourniquets

Few IV start kits

Few IV extensions

Few saline flushes

15gtts sets

IV Pump tubing

Pouch 2, Cardiac drug pouch:

D50

5x Epi

3x Atropine

2x Lidocaine

1x Sodium Bicarb

D5W

3x DuoDote

Side pouch 1:

Sharps container

Side pouch 2:

BP Cuff

Stethoscope

Back pouch, Airway:

5 sizes of LMAs

5 sizes of Kings

Intubation roll, with all assocaited equipment such as each Mac and Miller blade, 2x handles, extra batteries, 1 of each tube size, BAAM, Adult and Pedi Magills, adult and pedi tube tamers, ETCO2 connector, assorted OPAs, assorted NPAs, meconium aspirator

Main pouch:

2x C-collars

Portable suction

EZ-IO

1l NS

1l LR

Dopamine premix

Lidocaine premix

Adult bougie

Pedi bougie

Abd pads

CPAP with adult and pedi masks

NRB for adult and pedi

NC for adult and pedi

Capno-cannulas

Mini drug box with:

Acetominiphen

Oral glucose

Narcan

Lidocaine jelly

ASA

NTG

Adenosine

Albuterol

Benadrul

Calcium Gluconate

Amiodarone

Enalaprilat

Epi 1:1

Etomidate

Famotidine

Glucagon

Heparin

Atrovent

Labetalol

Lopressor

Mag Sulfate

Solu-medrol

Levophed

Zofran

Oxytocin

Rocuronium

Tetracaine

Thiamine

Vasopressin

[p3medic]

Our first in bag has IV, bandaging, airway equipment, TQ's, etc...Our O2 bag has a D cylinder, assorted o2 delivery devices and BVM, our drug box is a pelican box, all the meds and syrninges, needles and glucometer, and the LP 12. 4 seperate pieces of equipment.

[ScottR]

Everything except airway and O2

[Chief1C]

I couldn't give a list of the contents of the bags, if I tried. It's a "Jump" Kit, a "first in" bag, an "Initial Care" Bag. It's like an abbreviated version of the ambulance, with out any stretchers or flashing lights. You might be able to count the little CO detector as a siren. It's the only siren that will for a fact, save a life. It always has what we need, for most emergencies from a broken arm, to respiratory arrest. You use something, you replace it. I assume, it's pretty similar to any other BLS agencies kit, one that's anal about being competent with their care anyway. Started out as a generic, buy stocked, Moore kit. Took out the BS, put in the stuff you normally use to assess and provide immediate care with.

Not too big, not too heavy. The weight probably comes from the "Jumbo D" tank, a rural necessity, IMO. If you can't get it into a 19th Century farmhouse, w/o knocking something over... Tone it down, you can always send someone out to get what you don't have in the bag.

[HellsBells]

Doesnt really matter whats in my bags. I always just load the pt up and start treatment in the rig. I havent opened a jumpbag in months.

[Bosco836]

Our first in bag(s) contain:

BVM

OPAs/NPAs

O2 w/NRBs, Nebs, and Nasal Canulas

Assorted sizes gauze pads, rollar gauze, pressure dressings, and AB pads

Sterile water

Glucometer/test strips/lancets

Space blanket

Assorted gloves

Isolation gowns/goggles/N95 masks

SAM Splint

Quick Splint

Assorted ACE bandages

Burn dressings

Adult and Child BP Cuff/Stethoscope

Vomit Bags/Biohazard Bags

Ice Packs

2 inch tape

Trauma Shears

Pen Light

Sharps Container

Symptom Relief Drug Kit (Epi, Glucagon, Oral Glucose, Dimenhydronate, Diphenhydramine, Nitro, ASA, Salbutamol)

[stcommodore]

Hells bells thats kinda sad to hear.

[nypamedic43]

our first in bag contains:

front pouch: 3 different sizes of BP cuffs and a stethoscope

right hand end pouch: all manner of bandaging supplies

left hand end pouch: intubation: 2 each size of ET tube, 1 each size mac and miller blades and the handle, 1 each size combitube, secondary checks and tube holders, magills, safety glasses.

center compartment: in the lid: 3 sizes OPA, bite stick, oral glucose.

main: small sharps container, small flashlight, occlusive dressings, BVM, 1 complete IV set up, 5 epi, 3 atropine, 1 lidocaine bolus, 1 dopamine bolus, glucometer and assorted paraphenalia, 1 drug box with 1 6mg and 2 12 mg adenosine, phenergan, zofran, extra nitro, aspirin, epi 1:1,000, albuterol, atrovent, mag sulphate, benedryl, glucagon and assorted syringes and filter needles.

[FireMedic65]

We carry no preloaded drugs, if you are not competent enough to manually draw up a medicine you are not competent to be allowed to use it.

Ketamine, morphine and fentanyl and kept in a hip pouch

I fully agree with being competent using the meds you are giving. But don't you think the patient would benefit from quicker treatment?