Posted By Neal Smith
My company sends business travellers all over the world and I am putting together a medical kit for them to take when they are outside the western world. Our occupational nurse recommends that I should include giving sets and other needles/syringes that could be used by local doctors. My question is what do others include in this sort of kit.

Posted By Adam Worth
I'd personally take a standard first kit and a generic emergency travel kit, these contain all most people will need.

The HSE give advice on what should be included in a standard kit and
For the other kit - syringes, needles, intravenous cannula, suture and needles, skin closure strips and dressings. These kits can be handed to medical people if you're unsure about the safety of their equipment. If you're going somewhere very remote you could consider adding an intravenous set and a blood substitute solution to the kit.

A good tip i was given is you can use coconut milk as a intravenous drip! - it's sterile and isotonic (apparently) I got told this whilst in Sri Lanka, so it's not based on medical fact :) It sounds plausible tho.

It's also worth noting fruit is always sterile if you remove the skin - A useful tip if you have really bad food poisoning!

It's up to you of course to do a risk assessment and decide what special first aid needs may be present.