The below list will put you in a better place when things go wrong at your youth’s sporting event. Be prepared and feel ready!

General Supplies for Youth Medical Kit:

• First Aid Manual or Emergency/CPR flashcards
• Safety pins
• Paramedic or EMT shears (scissors)
• Bandage scissors
• Standard oral thermometer: digital, mercury or alcohol
• Wooden tongue depressors (“tongue blades”)
• Waterproof flashlight (such as Pelican MityLite*) or headlamp (and spare batteries, check routinely for function)
• CPR mouth barrier or pocket mask (such as a Microshield X-L Mouth Barrier*)
• Sterile surgical gloves (hypoallergenic or latex; at least 2 pairs); if you are allergic to latex, bring nonlatex, synthetic, nonpermeable gloves
• Ziploc* bags (to hold ice for ice packs)
• Rescue blanket
• Cell phone
• List of emergency phone numbers (paramedics, hospital emergency room, sports medicine clinic)

Wound Care-Preparations and Dressings

• Elastic bandages (Band-Aid* or Coverlet*) in assorted sizes (strip, knuckle, and broad); cloth with adhesive is preferable
• Adhesive strips for wound closure (Steri-Strip* or Cover-Strip II*), assorted sizes (such as 1/4″ x 4″, 1/8″ x 3″, 1/2″ x 4″), reinforced [plain or impregnated with an antimicrobial] or elastic
• 3″x 3″ or 4″x 4″ sterile gauze pads; packets of 2 to 5 ( such as Nu-Gauze* highly absorbent)
• Nonstick sterile bandages (Telfa*), assorted sizes used to cover abrasions
• 1″, 2″, 3″ and 4″ rolled conforming gauze (C-wrap* or Elastomull*)
• 1″ and 1/2″ waterproof adhesive tape
• Antiseptic towelettes

Splinting and Sling Material

• Cravat cloth (triangular bandage)
• 2″, 3″ and 4″ elastic wrap (Ace* bandage)
• 4 1/4″ x 36′ SAM Splints (2)
• Aluminum finger splints

Eye Medications and Dressings

• Prepackaged eye bandages (Coverlet Eye Occlusor*)
• Metal or plastic eye shield
• Sterile eyewash, 1 oz (30 ml)
• Contact lens case

Dental Supplies

• Save-A-Tooth Emergency Tooth Preserving System

Topical Skin Preparations

• Bacitracin, mupirocin, or bacitracin-neomycin polymixin B sulphate ointment
• Insect repellent containing DEET

Nonprescription Medications

• Decongestant (such as oxymetazoline) nasal spray (to treat nosebleed that doesn’t respond to simple pressure)
• Glutose (liquid glucose) paste tube (to treat hypoglycemic – low blood sugar – reaction)

Prescription Medications

• Metered-dose bronchodilator (albuterol) (to treat an asthma attack)

Allergy Kit

• EpiPen Auto-Injector [0.3 mg] and EpiPen Jr. Auto-Injector [0.15 mg] or allergy kit with injectable epinephrine (Ana-kit)