First aid equipment
A strip of woven material used to bind up a wound or to protect an injured part of the body.
What is a bandage?
A partial or complete loss of the perception of yourself and all that around you.
What is a loss of consciousness?
breaking the continuity of the bones.
What is a fracture?
Shoes made with a protective reinforcement at the front making them quite durable. The reinforcement helps to protect the toes from falling objects or any kind of compression.
What are protective boots?
The death of part of the heart muscle due to insufficient oxygen supply.
What is a heart attack (myocardial infarction)?
An especially low-weight, low-bulk blanket made of heat-reflective, thin, plastic sheeting.
What is an emergency blanket?
The medical term for the gasping that people do when they're struggling to breathe because of cardiac arrest or another serious medical emergency.
What is a agonal breathing?
Displacement of the epiphyses of the bones that make up the joint.
What is a dislocation?
Made of retroreflective materials. These are intended to provide visibility of the person wearing it in low day light or in the dark when illuminated by headlights of vehicles and mechanized equipment.
What is a high-visibility vest?
Occurs suddenly and often without warning. It is triggered by an electrical malfunction in the heart that causes an irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia).
What is the sudden cardiac arrest?
A loosely woven, almost translucent fabric that's used to bandage wounds.
What is a gauze?
Lack of normal muscle tone.
What is a muscle flaccidity?
A violation of the soft tissues surrounding the joint, but without bone dislocation.
What is a sprain?
A hard or padded protective hat.
What is a helmet?
Dysfunction of a part of the brain tissue, most often caused by a sudden interruption of arterial blood supply or out-of-vessel outflow of blood within the structures of the brain.
Used for cleaning wounds or washing out foreign bodies from eyes.
What is the saline?
Occurs when heat loss from the body is higher than heat produced in the body.
What is a low body temperature (hypothermia)?
The loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body, typically as a injury.
What is a paralysis?
Close-fitting glasses with side shields, for protecting the eyes from glare, dust, water, etc.
What are googles?
A strong, violent reaction to the hypersensitivity of the body to an allergen.
What is a anaphylactic shock?
Used during medical examinations and procedures to help prevent cross-contamination between caregivers and patients.
What are medical gloves?
A state of abnormally low extracellular fluid in the body.
What is a Hypovolemia?
An injury to the spine in which the vertebral body is severely compressed. They typically occur from severe trauma, such as a motor vehicle accident or a fall from a height.
What is a Burst fracture?
An item of PPE, aims to protect the wearer's entire face (or part of it) from hazards such as flying objects and chemical splashes or potentially infectious materials (in medical and laboratory environments).
What is a face shield?
A sudden discharge of electricity through a part of the body.
What is a electric shock?