Medical: Gear and Supplies
Black Bag (Basic First Aid)
Item | Quantity | Item | Quantity |
Sterile Gauze Pads | 10 per bag | Disposable Gloves | 1 box per bag |
Sterile Gauze Rolls | 6 per bag | Tourniquet | 2 + marker pen |
Band-aids | box w/ range of sizes | Warming Emergency Blanket | 3-4 per bag |
Triangle Bandages | 6 per bag | Saline rinse or clean water + no needle syringe for wound irrigation? | 4 ounce single use X 6 |
Alcohol Swabs | 1 large box per bag | SAM Splints | 6 - range of sizes |
Instant ice-cold packs | Ace Bandages | 10 per bag | |
CPR masks disposable | multiple per bag | Patient Carry Litter? | 1 |
Flashlight | 1–2 per bag | Batteries (for flashlights/penlights) | AA X8, AAA X 8 |
Blood Pressure Kit | 1 per bag | Thermometer | 1 per bag |
Penlight | 1–2 per bag | stretchy/self -dhesive medical tape or regular medical tape | 6 rolls |
Portable Pulse Ox & batteries (after-market batteries; the ones included tend to leak and die quickly) | 1-–2 per bag | N95/surgical masks | 1 box per bag |
goggles / face shields | 2 per bag | ||
rehydration salts |
Red Bag (Trauma)
Item | Quantity | Item | Quantity |
Sterile gauze pads | 10 per bag | Sterile strips | range x 6 |
Sterile gauze Rolls | 6 per bag | Trauma dressings (Abdominal pads) | 8 per bag |
Triangle bandages | 6 per bag | Instant ice-cold packs | 8 per bag |
Alcohol swabs | small box | Burn dressing 8” x 8” and 4” x 4” | 8 of each |
Hydrogen peroxide | 4 ounces | Triple antibiotic | 10 per bag |
Sterile saline solution | 4 ounce single use x 6 | Combat tourniquet | 2 + marker pens per bag |
Sterile gloves | S, M, L, XL in zippered plastic bags | Israeli 6-inch trauma compression bandage | 2 per bag |
Eye pad sterile | 2 per bag | Quick clot gauze (no heat production ones) | 4 per bag |
Warming emergency blanket | 3-4 per bag | Waste bags | |
Trauma shears | Chest seal | ||
Flashlight and batteries | 1-2 per bag | Stethoscope/BP kit | 1–2 per bag |
SAM splints | Medical tape | ||
Goggles/face shields/surgical masks | 1 box | Portable pulse ox & batteries | 1–2 per bag |
Range of oral airways | 1 pack |
Medication Bags or Boxes
Make sure to have one of these at each Disaster Hub.
MRC-Dispensed Meds Only This box/bag should be a separate box that can be used only in the presence of or by an MRC licensed medical volunteer within their scope.
Epinephrine pen | Glucagon pen | Glucose gel packets |
Chewable aspirin | MDI inhalers | Triple antibiotic gel packets |
Tylenol and Children's Liquid Tylenol | Nasal cannulas and/or face masks if we decide to have oxygen on site. | Nitroglycerin SL tabs |
Ibuprofen | Oral OTC antihistamines | IV saline drip (and IV Kit starts and IV tubing) if we want this available at hubs |
Ondansetron (nausea med) | Antacids (oral + liquid) |
OTC Meds [This box should be a separate box that MRC nonprofessionals can use with or without an MRC medical professional]
Glucose gel packets | Tylenol and Children’s Liquid Tylenol | |
Triple antibiotic gel packets | Ibuprofen | |
Chewable aspirin |