From the broad scope, all the equipment that can save lives in a short time are 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 systems and other equipment.