Rescue device
Rescue equipment in the medical sense is used to transport, immobilize , care for and monitor injured and sick people .
Transport equipment
Medical transport devices are used to change the position and move patients.
The DGUV explains : " Rescue vehicles are used for the professional, gentle transport of the injured from the scene for further care in the first aid room, to the doctor or to the hospital. "
The most frequently used transport device is the ambulance cot . If it is not necessary or possible to transport a patient lying down, a carrying chair can also be used.
Transport devices for moving patients are:
The grinding basket stretcher is a special form of stretcher .
As transport devices in water and ice rescue are also
- Belt rescuer and
- Lifebelt
to call. Their use, however, only refers to the transport or keeping a person in the water.
Immobilization devices
Immobilization devices are intended to prevent (immobilize) the body or body parts of a patient from a potentially damaging movement.
Aluminum upholstery splints can be used universally for splinting fractures in the extremities.
For immobilization of the cervical spine is a cervical collar used colloquially, the maker's mark "Stiffneck" has prevailed.
Vacuum splint material is often used for immobilization , in which a hard splint is created by sucking air out of a shell filled with granules. Air chamber rails , which have to be inflated with air, work according to the opposite principle .
A rescue corset is often used to immobilize a patient in an accident vehicle .
Immobilization can also take place with a rescue board with the aid of a cervical support and a head fixation.
Supply and monitoring devices
The best-known supply and monitoring device is the defibrillator . Modern defibrillators in ambulances allow at the same time by adding modules, the surveillance (monitoring) of the vital parameters of the patient.
Automated external defibrillators (AED) are available in many public places for lay aid.
Mechanical resuscitation aids are often used to relieve the rescue service personnel and to ensure that resuscitation is carried out constantly .
Individual evidence
- ↑ DGUV Information 204-022 Section 5.5 First Aid in Operation
- ↑ https://neureut.dlrg.de/wasserrettung/ausruestung/rettungsgeraete.html
- ↑ Statement on the topic of "Immobilization of trauma patients" by the National Board of PHTLS Germany (as of March 2015)