Public access bleed control kits available from ProTrainings at www.first-aid-online.co.uk or www.protrainings.uk or phone 01206 805359 or email supplies@protrainings.uk
We're now gonna look at this public access bleed control kit. Now, this kit here is a ProTrainings kit, but also, it's been developed with the ForJodie Project, who are a knife crime charity. Now, the idea of these kits is they are placed in prominent locations, in vehicles, anywhere there is possibly going to be a knife attack, a terrorist incident, or any instance where catastrophic bleeding could occur. So these kits are being put into shops, restaurants, pubs, railway stations, and also in the external bleed control kits or in with the AD Unit, so they are accessible to the general public. That said, the contents of this kit are absolutely ideal for any other location. You could use them in the workplaces, if you're doing outdoor pursuits and you need something that's got a lot of equipment in it, in a small pouch, so things like forestry and stuff like that. This kit will work.
So the kit itself is in the bag. It's red, so it's very obvious to see. And when you then open it up, there are two key sides to it. On one side, we have got pairs of gloves so that they are easy to access. You literally just get the gloves and pull those out. And also very easy to access is this, it's the Citizen Aid pocket card. And what this does is it very easily and quickly, in picture format, tells you what to do with different types of emergency you're likely to come across. So down here, you can see all the different areas of where it covers. So these would cover things like knife attack, gun attack, or chemical attacks, or something where someone is using a car as a weapon. What you can do is look very easily along here at the different areas and also the treatment you are likely to have to do for that person. That card is very easy to access. Just so you know, also you have got an app that you can use as well instead of the card or as well as the card. So on this side, we have got trauma dressings. There is two of those dressings on there.
And on this side here, we have got a few different products. One is some Celox gauze and this is used for packing a wound in a case of catastrophic bleeding, it's a hemostatic dressing so it reacts with blood to block the hole up. We've also got a resuscitation aid, so if did have to do resuscitation, you have a face-shield to put over the patient. And we have a rapid-stop tourniquet. Now, this is a very, very easy-to-use commercial tourniquet. You pop it around the limb, it is very fast to put on, and rather than some tourniquets that you have to physically turn the windlass to tighten them, this has just got a little lever action, and you lift it up and it will ratchet it on, extremely fast and easy and effective way of putting a tourniquet on. We have a seal in there, just so that you can seal the bag shut. It says, "Tamper-proof seal," so if someone has broken the seal then you know you need to check the contents. There is also some shears so you can cut away clothing. There's a marker, and the markers there so you can note the time that a tourniquet has been applied or a hemostatic agent has been applied, and you can write on the patient or write those note somewhere. And finally, in here, there is a silver foil blanket, because it is really important in the case of a catastrophic bleed to maintain the patient's temperature, because if the temperature starts dropping, then that can affect the body's ability to actually heal.
If you're interested in any more information about these kits or you want to place them in your community, then contact us on supplies@protrainings.uk. Also, you can see these products on our website, which is firstaidonline.co.uk.
For more information on ProTrainings courses see www.protrainings.uk or for equipment visit www.first-aid.online.co.uk. You can call us on 01206 805359 or email support@protrainings.uk.
