Beyond first aid: What’s included in the ZOLL Mobilize Trauma Kit & why do businesses need it?

Many workplaces, schools or construction sites are equipped with a standard first aid kit. While these kits are perfect for minor cuts, scrapes and small injuries, they’re not enough if a serious incident or life-threatening trauma occurs in the workplace.

This is where the ZOLL Mobilize Trauma Kit comes in. Designed for catastrophic bleeds, penetrating injuries, airway emergencies and unresponsive casualties, it provides an easy-to-use solution for workplace emergencies.

In this blog, we’ll look why a trauma kit is an essential piece of equipment for any workplace, school or event space and look at exactly what’s inside the ZOLL Mobilize Trauma Kit.

Why do businesses need more than just a first aid kit? 

Did you know that all ambulance trusts must respond to Category 1 calls (classified as needing immediate intervention or resuscitation ) within seven minutes on average and respond to 90% of these calls in 15 minutes. However, injuries such as severe bleeding can become fatal within 3-5 minutes.

With these statistics in mind, you can start to see why having a trauma kit on-site is so important. It allows bystanders or anyone in your workplace to act quickly and help to stop heavy bleeding to keep the patient alive until an ambulance arrives.

Unlike a traditional first aid kit, this trauma kit is designed for use in serious, time-critical emergencies. Every item in the ZOLL Mobilize Trauma Kit is designed to allow first responders to provide fast action and act confidently in situations where every second counts.

Here’s why trauma kits are an essential piece of equipment for any business:

Life-threatening injuries are more common than many businesses realise

Depending on your workplace, it can be easy to think that catastrophic trauma is unlikely. In sectors such as construction, warehousing and manufacturing, it can be expected that accidents can happen, and these businesses take health and safety measures and ensure they’re prepared.

However, traumatic incidents can also occur in offices and schools so having the right equipment in place helps to protect staff, visitors, customers and pupils in the event of an emergency.

Ambulance response times are increasing 

In the UK, ambulance services face increasing pressure which means response times can be unpredictable, rural areas can face longer wait times and traffic, distance and access can slow the arrival of an ambulance.

As we know, there’s a ‘care gap’ between the incident occurring and help arriving so having a trauma kit on-site helps responders to act quickly during this urgent period and potentially save a life.

Most employees are not medically trained 

If a severe emergency trauma occurs, there is no guarantee that a trained first aider will be on-site. And, even trained first aiders can panic, freeze, be frightened of doing the wrong thing or forget their training.

Trauma kits can solve this by providing even untrained responders with step-by-step instructions and all the tools they need to act quickly.

Support for lone workers and remote teams

Some work environments involve lone working or remote working. For example, on remote agricultural sites, field service teams, delivery fleets, event crews and engineering teams, employees might be working on sites where ambulance access or help from other employees might be delayed.

Trauma kits can either be provided on-site or carried with remote teams so they’re prepared and can act while they wait for emergency services to arrive, even if help is delayed.

Strengthens emergency preparedness for public venues 

Public venues face risks such as large crowds, sports injuries, violent injuries or public medical emergencies. Adding a trauma kit to your space allows anyone to respond quickly and confidently to an incident that could involve customers, event attendees, staff or members of the public.

Trauma kits complete your emergency response system

Many workplaces have already invested in a first aid kit and an AED. However, cardiac arrest is not the only life-threatening injury.

A full emergency response kit includes a first aid kit for minor injuries, an AED (defibrillator) for sudden cardiac arrest and a trauma kit for catastrophic bleeding, chest injuries, airway compromise and unresponsiveness.

Investing in these elements for your businesses protects your staff, customers and visitors and ensures that you can act quickly when an emergency occurs and potentially save a life.

For more information on why a trauma kit can be useful within your workplace, read our blog: Why Trauma Bleed Kits Matter: What Would You Do in an Emergency?

What's inside the ZOLL Mobilize Trauma Kit? 

The ZOLL Mobilize Trauma Kit is not only designed to provide your workplace with everything required to provide immediate care when a trauma occurs, it also empowers anyone to act quickly and confidently to potentially save a life while waiting for emergency services to arrive.

Here’s a list of everything included in the kit:

• Tourniquet for catastrophic limb bleeding: When someone’s losing blood that can’t be controlled by applying pressure alone, a tourniquet is essential. This allows responders to stem blood loss until the ambulance arrives and prevent the injury from becoming fatal. Incidents that involve severe bleeding can occur when working with power tools, moving machinery, landscaping or in construction environments. 

•        Emergency trauma dressing for fast pressure application: The dressing included in this kit is needed when acting quickly is essential. It allows responders to apply direct pressure to the wound quickly and maintain consistent pressure. 

•        QuikClot Haemostatic Gauze to speed up blood clotting: This gauze helps to actively stop bleeding and can be used to pack deep wounds, accelerating the body’s natural clotting process. 

• ·         Hyfin chest seal for chest injuries: A chest seal is essential for chest injuries caused by metal or glass penetration, machinery accidents, impact trauma or assault. The seal allows trapped air to escape and prevents more air from entering the wound to stabilise breathing. 

•  CPR face shield: When CPR is required, the face shield allows responders to deliver CPR while protecting themselves and the patient from disease transmission and can help with the correct technique too.
• Nitrile gloves: Gloves protect responders from bodily fluids and allow them to act quickly in an emergency.
• Mobilize Rescue App: The ZOLL Mobilize Trauma Kit comes with the Mobilize Rescue App which is designed to walk responders through the process of treating the patient step by step, empowering them to act quickly and confidently to potentially save a life.

 A step toward a safer workplace

A workplace emergency can occur suddenly and escalate quickly. And often rely on the people nearby being able to think and act quickly as well as have access to the right equipment.

While traditional first aid kits are useful to have around, they’re not designed for high-risk emergencies that many workplaces can now face. Whether that’s catastrophic bleeding, penetrating injuries, unresponsiveness or chest trauma.

The ZOLL Mobilize Trauma Kit helps to fill this gap. It provides responders with the equipment they need and step by step guidance to ensure they’re able to act quickly and confidently when a traumatic emergency occurs.

This allows bystanders to take action during the most time critical minutes of an emergency when survival often depends on what happens before medical help arrives.

For your business, it provides reassurance for staff, visitors, customer and contractors and allows you to provide an elevated standard of care across your organisation.

Whether you operate in construction, education, hospitality, manufacturing, logistics or a standard office environment, a trauma incident can occur in any workplace and the equipment you have available could save a life.

Find out more about the ZOLL Mobilize Trauma Kit here. Or speak to a member of our team for more advice and guidance on the right equipment for your needs.