Pro:One Paramedic assist

This piece of equipment has been designed for paramedics to use with patients who have difficulties in the area of speech and sound. 

Currently if a paramedic arrives at the scene of an accident with such a patient they find it very difficult to find out what pain the individual is in and the extent of the pain etc.

This piece of equipment has been designed to reduce such difficulties allowing the patient  to point to visual images of body parts, type of pain and type of injury. 

This piece of equipment will be made of plastic to ensure that it is waterproof.  It will be 21cms x7.5 cms x 2.5cms in size and be light weight.  A lid will be fixed to the top of the equipment which when lifted will allow a light to come on.  This will ensure that it can be used in dark situations. 

The first plastic page that the patient will see will contain words and images of the following: Hurt ( flashing red-Image of a hand with blood on it), Broken (flashing green- image of a broken bone), Poison(flashing yellow-image of skull and cross bones) and Burn(flashing blue-image of fire).  The patient will be shown this card and will point to their particular problem.

When the paramedic has discovered the patients particular area of difficulty they will then turn over the plastic sheets till they come to a comprehensive description of the problem. 

For example, if the patient says that they hurt, the paramedic will use the associated colour coded ends on the first card to reach this area quickly.  

This will then present the patient will images of body parts (which will also be named) allowing the patient to point to their particular injured body part.  This will allow the paramedic to discover without language the patient’s difficulty. 

The comprehensive section on Poison will not contain body parts but images of items which could have caused the potential harm.  For example, plants, food, alcohol, drugs, household cleaners and animal bites.