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[The general practitioners' emergency bag; what is needed for life-threatening emergencies?]
1Service des urgences--SMUR, Hospices civils de Beaune. alain.kalis@ch-beaune.fr
Objective:
The emergency bag is an essential tool for the general practitioner and its contents vary depending on the practitioners' activity. The objective was to compare the emergency bags with those that are recommended in the literature and to define what is necessary in the case of life-threatening emergencies.
Method:
A survey on the general practitioners' emergency bag was conducted in the Côte d'Or area during the month of September 2000.
Results:
Globally, emergency bags were not always adapted to the practitioners' activity and expiry dates were not systematically checked.
Conclusion:
Three types of emergency bags were defined depending on three areas of activity: urban, semi-rural and rural.