ScoutMed National Scout Active Support Unit - Providing on site first

aid and medical services at Scout events throughout the UK

Equipment
ScoutMed carries an array of medical equipment that is used to help people. Here is a
small selection of what we carry to give you some idea of our capabilities:
Airway adjuncts: These are basically hollow plastic tubes that are used to help maintain
a patent airway in an unconscious patient.
Bag - Valve - Mask: This is used to ventilate a patients lungs when their breathing
becomes ineffective. It can be connected to an oxygen supply to increase oxygenation to
the brain and other vital organs.
Circulatory support: Intravenous fluids are fluids given into a vein. These are used to
support a patients circulation, replace fluids that may have been lost in conditions such
as severe dehydration, to give a patient glucose in

hypoglycaemic (low

blood sugar)

emergencies and to help carry intravenous drugs around the body.

Used by health care professionals only.
Defibrillator: Used in cases of cardiac arrest to shock a stopped heart following a heart
attack in an attempt to restart it.
Emergency drugs: a comprehensive array of drugs are carried to treat a range of medical
emergencies including - anaphylactic shock, severe allergic reactions, cardiac
conditions and severe asthma attacks. Used by health care professionals only.
Entonox equipment: A pain killing gas consisting of nitrous oxide and oxygen used in
the treatment of moderate to severe pain.
Intubation equipment: Intubation is an advanced technique used by health care
professionals to maintain an unconscious persons airway whilst enabling ventilation of
the lungs.
Moving equipment: ScoutMed has a range of equipment to move an injured or ill
patient, if it is considered safe to do so, to a more suitable location. E.g. from the scene of
an incident to a treatment area. The equipment includes carrying chairs and sheets,
orthopaedic (scoop) stretcher and fold up stretchers.
Pulse oximeter: The prime use of this equipment is to non-invasively measure the
amount of oxygen circulating in the blood.
Splints: Various sizes of box splints are carried that are used to immobilise below elbow
and below knee fractures.
Suction apparatus: This is basically a medical "vacuum cleaner". It is used to clear a
patients airway of secretions etc.
Sphygmomanometer: ScoutMed carries both automatic and manual versions of this
equipment that is used to measure a patients blood pressure.

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What does AED stand for?
Active Energy Dispenser
Auxiliary Endorphin Defense
Automated External Defense
Automated External Defibrillator