Skills Handbook

Nitrile Medical Gloves (non-latex)

PPE Surgical Gown

PPE Face Shield

PPE Respirator 

(Medical grade N95)

Automated External Defibrillator

(AED)

CPR Pocket Mask with One Way Walve

CPR Face Shield

Key Chain

Trauma Shears for "Expose" to "Trauma Naked"

Bag Valve Mask

(BVM)

Sometimes called an "Ambu Bag"

Oxygen Tubing

Connects BVM to O2 or used to provide "Blow By" to infants

Oropharyngeal Airway

(OPA)

Airway Adjunct

Nasopharyngeal Airway

(NPA)

Airway Adjunct

Medical Oxygen Tank with "Pin Index System"

Oxygen Flow Regulator

Nonrebreather Oxygen Mask with one way valves

Nasal Cannula for low concentration O2 delivery

Portable Powered Suction Unit with collection container

Suction Tubing, large bore

Rigid Suction Catheter

(also called Yankauer or "tonsil tip" in the field)

Soft Suction Catheter

(also called a French Catheter in the field)

Tourniquet with Windlass

(CAT style TQ that mimics the cravat and stick method)

Elastic Tourniquet

(SWAT-T version that applies pressure with elastic recoil)

Israeli Bandage Pressure Dressing

(mimics cravat and rock method from desert)

Triangular Bandage aka Cravat

(muslin fabric used for bandaging, securing, slinging)

Trauma Dressing

Large Size for Gross Hemorrhages

Abdominal Pad Dressing, 5x9

Combat Gauze

for direct pressure at vascular site

(stuffed into a non-torso wound)

Roller Gauze

(also called "cling" and can be sterile or non-sterile, for bandaging or stuffing into non-torso wound)

Gauze Sponges

for smaller wound dressing or wound cleaning/site prep

(4x4 or 2x2 sizes, can be sterile or non-sterile)

Stethoscope for Auscultation

Parts of a Stethoscope

(Bell side good for pediatric patients)

Blood Pressure Cuff with Sphygmomanometer

(manual BP cuff)

Pen Light with Pupil Size Chart

("Pinpoint pupils" can indicate opioid OD)

Mucosal Atomizer Device, or "MAD tip" for nasal naloxone (when drawn up with a syringe)

Nasal Narcan

(layperson Narcan)

EpiPen Autoinjector

(can be generic; autoinjectors can be for other medications as well)

Rigid Cervical Collar

Long Spineboard

with "head bed" and headstraps

Head Blocks with "head bed" system

LSB with Pins

Quick Clip Straps

9 Foot Straps

Pelvic Binder

Asherman Chest Seal

Burn Sheet

Sterile Saline

Occlusive Dressing

Board Splint

Padded Cardboard Splint

Hare Traction Splint

Ankle Hitch

(separate from splint, applied to ankle first)

Ischial Strap

(narrow and topmost)

Sling 

Sling and Swath

Kendrick Extrication Device (KED)

Glasgow Coma Scale

Einthoven's Triangle

Limb Leads

Chest Leads

Electrode

FAST Stroke Assessment

Cincinnati Stroke Scale

Los Angeles Motor Score

(LAMS)

Wong Baker Faces

Pulse Oximeter

Small Volume Nebulizer

(Neb)

Metered Dose Inhaler

(MDI)

CPAP

Aspirin

(ASA)

Nitroglycerin

(NTG or nitro)

Albuterol

"Bullet"

DuoNeb

(Albuterol and Ipatropium bromide)