There is a broad and narrow definition of first aid equipment.
In the broad scope, all equipment that can save a life in a short period of time is first aid equipment.
The progress of modern medicine has given new concepts and connotations to the emergency medicine, such as the call for help system has been from running to the telephone and computer processing, transportation tools from the back of the horse to the ambulance, high-speed cars and helicopters, the rescue technology from the simple unarmed operation to the modernization of the electronic medical equipment, first aid is now no longer passive, but a kind of modern mobile hospitals, which is able to According to the need to go out of the hospital, on the community, into the family, and quickly come to the patient's side, once the ambulance arrived to mark the patient that Si "hospitalized" can be urgent and effective emergency treatment. The hope of survival of critically ill patients can start from here.
We usually say that the first aid equipment belongs to the narrow category, mainly in the hospital to rescue patients with the necessary conventional medical equipment. It includes ventilators, cardiac monitors, defibrillators, simple respirators, cardiac compression pumps, negative pressure fracture fixation device, oxygen cylinders. Multifunctional rescue bed, negative pressure suction, automatic gastric lavage machine, micro-injection pumps, quantitative infusion pumps, etc., as well as tracheal intubation and tracheotomy required first aid equipment. Monitoring system, extracorporeal membrane pulmonary oxygenation (ECMO) device, peritoneal dialysis and blood purification system and other equipment.
In addition, the ability to perform cardiopulmonary and cerebral resuscitation; the ability to perform respiratory support; the ability to perform continuous electrocardiographic monitoring; the ability to recognize and handle cardiac arrhythmias and invasive hemodynamic monitoring; the ability to perform emergency temporary cardiac pacing; the ability to respond quickly to various laboratory results and give immediate feedback; the ability to perform functional support of multiple organs; the ability to perform total parenteral nutrition; and the ability to perform microinfusion of fluids; The ability to master a variety of monitoring techniques, as well as a variety of operating techniques; the ability to transport patients in the process of life support; the ability to have emergency treatment of various medical specialties diseases. All require that in addition to the necessary conventional medical equipment, there must also be a variety of related ancillary equipment, such as electrocardiogram machine, blood glucose meter, electric suction, blood gas analyzer, EEG machine, ultrasound machine, bedside adjustable line machine, blood and urine routine analyzer, blood biochemistry analyzer. Small mobile bedside X-ray machine, external pacemaker, and so on.