There are many items of first aid equipment available for organisations and individuals to buy and a considerable number of these play a vital role in helping to reduce suffering and in saving lives. One type of product that can have a particularly dramatic and immediate effect on people’s chances of survival is the defibrillator.

Indeed, your organisation may be keen to purchase equipment like this to have on standby in case of emergencies.

Near tragedy causes first aid rethink

Earlier this year, Bolton Wanderers midfielder Fabrice Muamba collapsed mid-game to the horror of his fellow players and the spectators watching at the ground and on television. The 24-year-old had suffered a cardiac arrest during an FA Cup tie with Tottenham.

The sportsman was clinically dead for total of 78 minutes and needed a total of 15 defibrillator shocks. Defying the odds, he continues to recover.

In response to the incident, Stoke City Football Club is launching a project to install defibrillators across the city. The club intends to make money available from its community fund to ensure that more of these life-saving devices are made available.

Applying for funding

Interested parties, such as schools and leisure centres, will be able to apply for cash to help them purchase the items.

Commenting on the move, Stoke boss Tony Pulis said: “The Fabrice Muamba incident shocked us all, but it also highlighted the huge importance of having those life-saving skills close at hand.

“Fabrice owes his life to the incredible efforts of those who went to his aid and so we must do all we can to ensure those life-saving skills are more readily available. If there is some good to come out of this case, then it is that it has raised awareness and hopefully many people associated with the club will take this training.”

Meanwhile, the club’s head of community Adrian Hurst added: “We were committed to supporting this initiative before the unfortunate incident involving Muamba, but this has clearly given it even greater purpose in seeking to make a difference in these situations.

“In fact, it is only recently that two members of our Community team who have basic first aid training found themselves in a situation where they had to administer CPR treatment to someone who had suffered a cardiac arrest while attending one of our activities.”

The importance of first aid training

Of course, if your organisation is planning to get new defibrillators, it is vital that you ensure the relevant people have received all the training they need so that they’re able to operate the items effectively.

Thankfully, accessing training is now easier than ever, so you shouldn’t struggle to achieve this goal.

Meanwhile, when you’re on the lookout for defibrillators, first aid training equipment and other similar products, you can come here to us at Bound Tree Medical. We offer a range of superb items that might be just what you’re looking for.

To find out more about what we sell and to see whether we have just what you need, simply take a look around our website.

Whenever you are looking to buy a new product, quality is usually the aspect that trumps everything else. For example, you would most likely be happy to pay a little extra for something that was guaranteed to function well rather than save a few quid by buying an ill-performing ‘bargain’. Of course, while there are many areas where a product’s standard of performance is not a seriously big deal; there are others where it can literally be a matter of life and death.

For example, there is no room for poor performance of any kind when it comes to first aid equipment. Indeed, apparatus and supplies of this kind have a very specific and incredibly important purpose to fulfil. If they malfunction in any way, already injured or unwell people could not only be made to suffer even more; their health could also be put in very serious jeopardy.

With this in mind, it is absolutely vital that you only source your vital medical essentials from reputable and responsible suppliers like us here at Bound Tree Medical.

Quality really is at the heart of everything we do and we believe this can be clearly seen in the products and supplies we offer. Indeed, everything from the bandages and uniforms to the training aids and stretchers we stock here at Bound Tree Medical is manufactured to the highest standards; therefore, you can be sure that any item you order from us really will be of the very best quality.

There are many different treatments available to patients with a range of ailments and injuries. Indeed, medical science is advancing all the time and new ways of dealing with medical problems are constantly being developed.

However, these solutions are no good without the right diagnoses in the first place. Indeed, in many ways this is the most important stage of the process. If mistakes occur at this point, entire treatment programmes may be ill-judged.

So, if your organisation is on the lookout for new diagnostic medical equipment, you will no doubt be keen to benefit from the very best around.

Here at Bound Tree Medical we understand the importance of this issue and that’s why we go out of our way to provide the highest quality offerings available. Indeed, when it comes to items of this kind, we may well serve as the perfect one-stop-shop.

We sell a wide range of equipment produced by big names, such as Littmann, ADC, Laerdal, Zoll, Cardiac Science and so on. Whether you require blood pressure monitors, medical thermometers, stethoscopes or anything else, we might well have the ideal items.

Having faith in the standard of such equipment can provide you with considerable peace of mind and make your life easier.

Meanwhile, despite the impressive quality of the provisions we offer, we are also committed to providing great value for money. This means you needn’t break the bank in order to source items from us. To see our range for yourself, just take a look around our website.

Some of the most vital equipment in a hospital is actually what your patient is lying or sitting on. Having comfortable, quality and well designed stretchers and evacuation chairs is vitally important, since the worst case scenario is that in moving a person you inadvertently make their condition worse. This is particularly true of stretchers. They have to be able to take multiple sizes of people from children to larger adults, all without causing the patient any harm.

Patient handling is an important issue that really cannot be overlooked. We have a selection of quality stretchers for all situations, including basket stretchers and folding stretchers. Folding stretchers are particularly useful since you can often store many of them at the same time making it easier to move multiple patients. Plastic basket stretchers are solid and designed for maximum support. They are also designed to be easy to lift in difficult situations and in particular, situations where access to the patient is difficult. This means that the stretcher should have rigidity and offer significant support to the patient, so as not to cause unnecessary bending.

Evacuation chairs are designed for confined areas which makes them great for indoor use inside aircraft, restaurants, hallways and lifts. The patient should also be offered the option of being strapped in to offer maximum security as they are being moved. The covers that come with the chairs should also be resistant to rot and fungus so as not to make them a hazard in themselves, particularly if they have been in storage for a long time.

Stethoscopes are some of the most recognisable medical equipment around but they do come in different varieties of manufacturer including ADC, Littmann and other brand. If you have a trusted brand, then you’ll be able to find it at Bound Tree medical. Stethoscopes are deployed in a number of different situations from diagnosing chest infections, to listening to bowel movements and they prove to be a vital piece of equipment for any doctor. However, sometimes they don’t come cheap, but with different varieties and makes available on our site, we are sure that you will find not only the make for you, but also the price that suits your budget. All of our stethoscopes are of an exceptional quality meaning that you can always rely on them to be there for you for years to come.

We also stock thermometers. These days thermometers come in several different formats. There are clinical thermometers, digital thermometers and single use thermometers. Clinical thermometers are relatively inexpensive and are designed to be easy to clean where they are listed as so. They are also designed to be easy to read, hygienic, and where listed, non-invasive. Ultimately, taking a reading with a clinical thermometers should only take you a matter of seconds. The Feverscan Forehead Clinical Thermometer is reusable and is ideal for use with small children and babies. Single use thermometers are a cost-effective way to take a temperature reading and our products are available in packs of 10, 100 and 1000.

Bound Tree Medical can supply the highest grade hospital equipment for your needs. If you are looking for diagnostic equipment on which you can rely, then we have the right products for you. We stock some of the best names in the industry from ADC, Laerdal, Littmann, Zoll and Cardiac Science meaning that you not only get the best on offer, but you also have choice and variety.

Blood pressure monitors are an essential diagnostic tool that can be used to great effect when ascertaining the medical issues. We stock Aneroid Sphygs at cost effective prices for quality pieces of kit. We also have a good range of automatic blood pressure monitors from Merlin, Omron and Rossmax. You can choose exactly what you want to pay and what you want the automatic blood pressure monitor to be capable of. We also stock Multikuf BP systems that are designed for the EMT/Paramedic. As a result they are very easy to use and are designed to be durable and long lasting. They are typically also able to treat adults, large adults, infants, and children.

Defibrillators are some of the most critical pieces of hospital equipment and having a product on which you and your patients can depend is vital. We stock a range of defibrillators from Cardiac Science, Laerdal, Zoll and other manufacturers. If you have a trusted brand, you should be able to find it here for a very competitive price, as well as the all important training packs.

With healthcare providers everywhere feeling the pinch of the Government’s austerity measures, it is now more important than ever to find the best medical equipment at the most cost-effective prices.

Happily, the advent of the Internet means that this is now relatively easy to do. Indeed, shopping online can help healthcare providers to make significant savings as the low overheads of online suppliers allow them to offer their products at very competitive prices. In addition, sourcing essential supplies in this way is also a lot more convenient as customers can make their purchases at a time and place that suits them and have everything delivered straight to their door.

Of course, buying supplies online doesn’t mean compromising on quality in any way either. In fact, leading equipment suppliers have built up enviable reputations over the years as being able to deliver medical items that are as high in quality as they are low in price.

We here at BoundTree Medical are one of the UK’s leading suppliers of medical, first aid and emergency equipment, and our aim is simple – to provide the best possible products at the lowest possible prices. We achieve this by creating and retaining excellent working relationships with our partners and passing on all of the financial benefits to our customers.

So, even though times are tough for many healthcare budgets at the moment, it needs to be remembered that high-quality medical instruments and supplies can still be sourced at very competitive prices.

There are many items of medical equipment available these days for you to choose from and as long as you are savvy when sourcing the products, you should end up with offerings that are superb quality. This is hugely important. After all, objects of this nature can help reduce individuals’ suffering and in some cases can even save lives, so it is vital they are of the very highest standard.

However, if you are not careful, you may find you overspend on the products, leaving to big a dent in your budget and causing knock-on problems for your organisation.

One way to avoid this is to come here to us at Bound Tree Medical. Not only are the offerings we provide superb, they are also great value for money, meaning you needn’t break the bank in order to get your hands on them.

We are owned by Bound Tree Medical of Ohio, which is the leading supplier of emergency medical supplies in the US who have more than three decades of knowledge and experience in the field.

During our time in operation, we have built up superb relationships with our suppliers, meaning we benefit from cost savings that can then be passed on to our customers. Also, we have significant purchasing power when it comes to medical instruments and equipment and savings are passed directly to you the customer to ensure you get the very best products at the cheapest prices.

Today, we have more than 18,000 products for you to choose from and our European base in Telford, Shropshire covers 15,000 square feet.

So, for the very best deals on emergency medical supplies and equipment you have come to the right place.

The internet has had a profound impact on modern life in the UK and many other countries around the world. It provides a means by which individuals can communicate with each other instantly, whether they are in the same building as each other or are located thousands of miles apart.

Also, it has become a major resource for sharing information and for entertainment. However, another area in which the web is coming to dominate concerns commerce. More and more individuals and companies are heading into cyberspace to source goods and services.

It is not hard to see why this trend is emerging. After all, it is often easier to benefit from better deals and a greater selection of offerings online than it is by physically heading to retailers.

Also, using the web to make purchases is highly convenient. Rather than having to head out to busy shopping areas, people can simply browse the internet from the comfort of their own homes or offices, or indeed while on the move via mobile devices.

So, next time you are seeking to get your hands on new medical equipment, you may be wise to check out what’s available online.

Here at Bound Tree Medical we offer a vast array of such items. Whether you are after emergency equipment or anything else, we might well have the perfect solution for you.

And as well as being fast, buying first aid training equipment and other such items from us is also low cost, which is great news for your bottom line.

Emergency medical professionals work in all areas and at all times of the day and night. The last thing they need when they are attending to someone who needs emergency medical treatment is to become a victim themselves because they can’t be seen clearly. Although this is applicable to any situation they might find themselves, it is even more essential when dealing with road traffic accidents, as there is a higher chance of being injured by a passing car. The best way to make sure ambulance personnel can be seen at all times is by wearing high visibility clothing, namely an ‘ambulance jacket’.

As a leading supplier of hospital and medical equipment, we have a wide range of hi-vis clothing. We particularly like our 3-in-1 ambulance jacket, which has been designed by ambulance staff themselves, so you can be sure that it has all the little extras you need to make your job easier, such as pen holders, a mobile phone pouch, and easy fastenings. It is suitable for all weathers, with a removable fleece to keep you warm in the winter, and a concealed rain hood and storm-proof pockets for bad weather conditions.

Our breathable 3-in-1 paramedic jacket offers similar benefits, but is made from reflective 3M Scotchlite material and is mesh-lined, so you won’t overheat in the summer. If you already have this jacket, we sell the hi-vis paramedic fleece separately, so you can be sure you’ll always have one handy when the other’s in the wash!