GP EQUIPMENT.
The general practitioners bag.
can vary according to demands/location.
administration equipment
- lockable, stored securely, light resistant - an older Gladstone bag is not ideal.
- your phone will give you contacts map formulary personal alarm and the camera.
- prescription pad referra letters STC forms private insurance forms mental health forms BNF and social welfare Certs.
diagnostic equipment
- stethoscope
- ophthalmoscope
- auto scope
- thermometer
- oxygen saturation probe
- 3 lead ECG machine
- multistix
- peak expiratory flow rate metre
- a glucometer / ketometer
- pregnancy tests
- paediatric MSU bags/universal containers
- tape measure
- gloves/alcohol wipes / other PPE
The GPs car boot.
- PPE including hi viz vest, wellies, coat, plastic bags and warning sign.
- Torch / glow sticks
- catheter set.
- nebuliser
- oxygen masks and airways
- a burn boxes.
- defibrillator
- suturing material
- sharps box
- entonox
- a bottle of water and some sweets
- power bank
- ? personal alarm
Medication for your bag
- analgesia
- antimicrobials
- respiratory
- rehydration
- diabetes
- seizures
- anaphylaxis
- nausea vomiting
- vertigo
- heart attacks
- heart failure
- postpartum haemorrhage
- psychiatric emergencies
analgesia
- paracetamol - iv, po, pr
- ibuprofen – po and pr, adult and paeds
- codeine 30mg tablets
- morphine 10 mg/5 mil oral solution and 10 mg amps
- diclofenac 100 mg suppositories and 75mgs amps
- diazepam 5 mg tablets
- naloxone – nasal spray
- penthrox / methoxyflurane” green whistle”
antimicrobials
- benzylpenicillin 600mg IV / IM
- cefotaxime 1 g for IM / IV
- amoxicillin
- erythromycin / clarithromycin
- trimethoprim/ cephalexin
- flucloxacillin
- aciclovir
asthma / anaphylaxis
- short acting beta agonist inhaled and nebulised salbutamol.
- prednisolone
- O2
- hydrocortisone 100 mg amps
- adrenaline – IM / IV
- chlorpheniramine 10mg amps
rehydration
- oral rehydration salts
- IV fluids and giving set.
diabetic hypoglycaemia
- quick acting carbohydrates such as hypostop
- glucagon 1 mg injection kit
- intravenous glucose 50 mils of 50% vial
seizures
- rectal diazepam
- madazolam - mil oral mucosal / nasal solution
nausea vomiting vertigo.
- ondansetron - tabs
- prochlorperazine 12.5mgs IM
- cyclizine - 50mgs IV
Heart failure
- IV furosemide
postpartum haemorrhage
- oxytocin
psychiatric emergencies
- IV Lorazepam
other topics to discuss
- resus trolley
- sports bag
- palliative care box