It's been a long time since last post. All this while I'm having busy time with works and boring time with personal life. At last today found some interesting stories to blog. We are preparing for our ambulance service during Hari Raya. So before the service started, we arranged a visit to the hospital E&T Unit for a simple briefing, which happened today.
We were introduced to a few area namely the triaging zone, green zone, yellow zone, red zone, asthma zone and treatment room. We actually are quite familiar with these places as we usually have chance to be around. What amazed me today is the Red Zone. The chance I've been into a red zone is to transfer the patient onto the bed and get lost, without even seeing the inside clearly. Tonight is a special chance to see the inside of the Red Zone. The most eye catching items in the room is a row of Laerdal Suction Units (LSU), arranged on a cupboard. The blue and yellow combination of colours is really striking. There is a cleaning room beside the room, which is a place to bath dirty patient especially those they rescues from the stinky drains.
At the waiting hall, I have the chance to dig into their trauma bags and kits. Their so-called trauma bags are more similar to a combination of resuscitation bag and IV bags. The in-charge told us that they usually store dressings and bandages inside the vehicle. They have another kit which contains all kinds of drugs, which they say they "play" with the drugs on the scene. Together with the bags is an Laerdal Heartstart AED which seems like an older model no more available in the market.
As a conclusion, i found E&T Unit very "impressive" and "expensive". Everything inside cost a big fortune. Looking forward for the coming duty.
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