Essential Medical Equipment
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Essential Medical Equipment

In addition to our standard List of Essential Equipment, our practice holds additional equipment to meet the requirements of RNZCGP Urgent Care Standard (2015).

We have contingency plans in place in the event that any equipment and/or supplies fail or are unavailable.

Equipment for urgent care

Fracture management

Basic and emergency medications

  • Angle lamp
  • Blue light
  • Cricothyroidotomy kit
  • Ear syringing apparatus
  • ECG machine
  • ECG 3-lead monitor
  • Defibrillator
  • Fine needles
  • Nasal packing equipment
  • Packs for delivering babies
  • Otoscope earpieces
  • Proctoscope
  • Pulse oximeter
  • Slit lamp
  • Snellen eye chart
  • Sponge forceps
  • Tape measure
  • Ultrasound for foetal heartbeat
  • Wound glue
  • Vaginal speculae
  • Crutches
  • Electric plaster saw
  • Finger splints – all sizes
  • Plaster scissors
  • Plaster splitter
  • POP splints
  • Wrist, hand, and thumb splints – all sizes
  • Moonboots – all sizes
  • Ring cutter
  • Wheelchair
  • X-ray viewer/spotlight
  • Knee splints/Robert Jones bandages
  • Amiodarone
  • Benzatropine
  • Lignocaine
  • 10% glucose injection
  • Glyceryl trinitrate
  • Narcotic injection
  • Salbutamol

Essential drugs:

  • Benzodiazepine
  • Fentanyl
  • Immunoglobin (on site or readily available)
  • Midazolam
  • Paracetamol
  • Tetanus vaccine
  • Vitamin K injection

For sedation (if used):

  • Flumazenil

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Last reviewed September 2022
Next review September 2025
Topic type Core content
Approved By: Key Contact
Topic ID: 9896

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