Appendix ‘E’

Ambulance:- Ambulance should have the following equipments;

1. General:

• A wheeled stretcher with folding and adjusting devices;

• Head of the stretcher must be capable of being titled upward;

• Fixed suction unit with equipments;

• Fixed oxygen supply withequipments;

• Pillow with case;

• Sheets;

• Blankets;

• Towels;

• Emesis bag;

• Bedpan;

• Urinal;

• Glass.

2. Safety equipments

• Flares with life of 30minutes;

• Floodlights;

• Flashlights;

• Fire extinguisher dry powder type;

• Insulated gauntlets.

3. Emergency care equipments Resuscitation

• Portable oxygen unit;

• Bag-valve-mask, hand operated artificial ventilation unit;

• Airways;

• Mouth gage;

• Tracheotomy adaptors;

• Resuscitation (p)Portable suction unit;

• Short spine board;

• I.V. Fluids with administration Unit;

• B.P. Manometer;

• Gugg; Stethoscope.

4. Immobilization

• Long & Short padded boards;

• Wire laddersplints;

• Triangular bandage;

• Long and short spine boards’

5. Dressings

• Gaze pads 4” x4”

• Universal dressing 10” x 36”;

• Roll of aluminium foils;

• Soft roller bandages 6” x 5” yards;

• Adhesive tape in 3”roll;

• Safety pins;

• Bandage sheets;

• Burn sheet.

6. Poisoning

• Syrup of Ipecac;

• Activated Charcoal; Pre-packaged in doses

• Snake bite kit;

• Drinking Water;

7. Emergency Medicines

As per requirements (Under the advice of Medical Officer only.