Emergency Management

The call was routine – an individual had taken a minor fall while leaving a retail establishment. You arrive on the scene, and your partner grabs your EMS jump bag for gauze. The only issue? The bag is empty.

Someone had used the jump bag the night before and never replaced the gauze. Now you’re forced to improvise with supplies pulled from other compartments. If you’re lucky, you’ll make do with what you have until you can stabilize the patient. 

It’s a small failure, but it's the kind that erodes professionalism. The good news is that effective EMS inventory management is possible. Sure, it may not be glamorous work, but it represents the foundation of reliable emergency response. 

Here at Kemp USA, we've spent decades listening to the challenges EMS providers face in maintaining their equipment. We know that proper maintenance protocols make the difference between bags that support your mission and bags that become sources of frustration and risk.

To help you continue to enhance your

What happens when that call comes through? 

A worker is experiencing cardiac arrest at a construction site. An athlete is injured at a sporting event. There’s been a report of a mass casualty event.

Crisis moments rarely announce their arrival – so your EMS jump bag needs to be set up to deliver. 

The best EMS jump bag is designed to hold everything you need for a wide range of situations, while keeping it all close at hand. After all, when every second counts, the difference between a well-equipped first responder bag and a hastily assembled kit could save a life. 

We’ve spent decades outfitting emergency responders with the equipment they need to perform at their best. We know that your EMS jump bag isn’t just a “bag of supplies” – it’s an extension of your training and your role. It needs to work with you, not against you.

So what should go in a fully-stocked EMS bag? Through our conversations with EMTs, paramedics, firefighters, and other emergency responders, here’s what we’ve learned

Learn about the common – and some uncommon – types of patient immobilization equipment used to help save lives.

Patient immobilization equipment is critical to emergency medical care and patient transport. These specialized devices are designed to minimize movement and prevent further injury to patients who have sustained trauma or are experiencing medical emergencies. 

Proper immobilization helps to stabilize the spine, neck, and extremities, reducing the risk of exacerbating existing injuries or causing new ones during the evaluation, treatment, and transport process. 

Whether it’s in aquatic environments where backboards are replaced by water-compatible variants or in the wilderness where improvised splinting devices may be the only option, having a variety of immobilization equipment at hand is essential for emergency responders.

At Kemp USA, we offer a wide range of high-quality immobilization devices for use in various emergency scenarios. Our focus on providing high-quality, wholesale-priced

Disasters are devasting, they can often leave people in hopeless situations. Sometimes they can be predicted, and with proper planning and they can be mitigated, but many times terror can strike unexpectedly. Either way, both require professional attention and response to save lives and get people to safety.  FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) is the branch within the United States Homeland Security that deals with disasters across US territories.

Sometimes called an Emergency Thermal Blanket, Space Blanket, Silver Foil Blanket. Pictured above:  NASA Hubble Space Telescope Do Mylar Blankets Actually Work? Mylar is a trademarked polyester resin owned by DuPont, a global leader in polyester films. Mylar is heat-resistant and it is aluminized making it UV-resistant and having reflective properties. It is true, that the mylar material was designed by NASA (in collaboration with other manufacturing companies) in the 1950s