Response Kits for WFA & WFR Courses

Equipment Needed to Build Response Kits for WFA and WFR

First you will need a backpack, large tote bag, or some other bag large enough for students to easily carry equipment to and from their scenarios. Each kit will need to contain the following:

• Tarp 5'x7' - big enough to fully wrap around patients

• Blanket/Sleeping Bag/Down Quilt - If you are teaching in a hot climate, a simple fleece throw blanket is enough to act as insulation for hypowraps. If you are teaching in variable/colder temperatures, you should consider down quilts or sleeping bags. Sleeping bags bulky. If you need to be space conscious or paln to travel with this equipment (like if you were contracted by Base Med to teach) then we suggest down quilts.

• Sleeping Pad -To save space for travel, you can consider foam sleeping pads in half as long as you explain to students to full length pads are ideal and the pads are halfed only for course purposes.

• Mylar Blanket - These foil blankets are cheap enough regularly replace but they often shred easily, are noisy, and can negatively impact the environment you are teaching in. You may want to consider replacing the foil blanket with silver material from the fabric store. Again, explain to students that this substitute is only for courses purposes and have foil blankets available an as option.

• Laminated Patient Care Reports - This saves you from having to reprint PCRs for each course. You may want to include a fine tip dry erase marker.

• Inventory Tag - Attach this to response kits so student can restock

• Small Bag - to contain the equipment below

• Sam Splint

• Ace Wrap

• Gauze Roll X2

• Tape

• Trauma Shears

• Triangle Bandage

• Epi Pen Trainers

• Large Syringe - for airway suctioning

• Tourniquet - optional at WFA level, required at WFR level

• Blood Pressure Cuff - optional at WFA level, required at WFR level

• Stethoscope - optional at WFA level, required at WFR level

WFA/WFR General Course Equipment

Response kits are designed to provide students with the gear they will need to adequately care for patients during their scenarios and skill labs. Base Medical also considered space, cost, and environmental sustainability. Students are responsible to maintaining their kits. An extra supply of consumables like gauze rolls, triangle bandages, etc should be available for students to freely restock such items as needed. You should have half as many response kits as students. So for a class of 10 students, you will need 5 response kits. Ten kits for twenty students.

At the end of the course, have students fully restock response kits and turn them in. These kits are ready for the next course and reduces the amount of time you will have to spend sorting and reorganizing equipment between courses. Yeah for less stress!

Here are a few other items you will want to have available during your course. If you want to include wound care into your WFA course, see the wound care kit suggestion below.

• Medical exam gloves

• Face masks - for students to have as an option when working closely together or when indoors

• Hand sanitizer bottle

• Small, portable white board

• Dry erase markers

• Extra pens for students