[The general practitioners' emergency bag; what is needed for life-threatening emergencies?].
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.


METHODS
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.


CONCLUSIONS
Three types of emergency bags were defined depending on three areas of activity: urban, semi-rural and rural.
Kalis
Alain
A
Service des urgences--SMUR, Hospices civils de Beaune. alain.kalis@ch-beaune.fr
Freysz
Marc
M
D004638:Emergency Treatment; D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires