PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Sadewasser, J AU - Potter, A AU - Ellis, D TI - Defining a standard medication kit for prehospital and retrieval physicians: a comprehensive review AID - 10.1136/emj.2008.062810 DP - 2010 Jan 01 TA - Emergency Medicine Journal PG - 62--71 VI - 27 IP - 1 4099 - http://emj.bmj.com/content/27/1/62.short 4100 - http://emj.bmj.com/content/27/1/62.full SO - Emerg Med J2010 Jan 01; 27 AB - Background: There is little consolidated evidence for which prehospital and retrieval drugs a given service should carry.Objectives: To suggest a core group of drugs based on the best evidence currently available.Methods: This paper has reviewed documents from recognised evidence-based sources and put together an initial skeleton for an evidence-based drug pack.Results: The resultant list of drugs is divided up into core agents with suggestions for regional variations. This may be of particular interest to de novo services.Conclusions: This review offers a starting point for services based on the evidence currently available. It is hoped that prehospital and retrieval clinicians will start to look analytically at what they carry and, through a process of audit, aim to improve the evidence in this area. Future reviews and comparisons of worldwide prehospital and retrieval databases are suggested.