TESK Rehabilitation Kit (TRK) 2025
The TESK Rehabilitation Kit (TRK) 2025 provides supply to 50 trauma patients
The TESK Rehabilitation Kit (TRK) 2025 provides essential rehabilitation supplies and assistive products for 50 trauma patients in line with existing TESK Ratios - or the equivalent of a 14 day supply for a 20 bed Type 2 Emergency Medical Team (EMT) or trauma service. It consists of 5 sets, to allow for a more flexible, needs based response.
The kit was developed in consultation with leading humanitarian organisations and EMTs, and aligns with EMT Minimum Standards for Rehabilitation and ICRC weapon wounded physiotherapy sets.
The TRK contains assistive products and rehabilitation related consumables that can be provided by a rehabilitation professional or, in their absence, by other health professionals with minimal training.
It is typically deployed to major acute trauma facilities in the early or acute stages of an emergency, but can also be deployed to rehabilitation actors later in a response if patients did not receive rehabilitation or assistive produces in the acute phase.
Composition of the TRK 2025
The TRK 2025 contains 5 sets as follow:
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Read the TRK 2025 technical note
Set 1:
Includes the essential mobility assistive products, such as crutches, walking frames, wheeled toilet/shower chairs and wheelchairs (all terrain and basic hospital/transport chairs), in adult and paediatric sizes, for 50 trauma patients. A total of 69 items are included.
Set 2:
Includes consumable supplies that are not assistive products but are needed to support an acute trauma rehabilitation service. The set includes stump bandaging, tubular and compression bandaging, exercise bands, supplies for making basic bespoke splints with plaster of paris, which should only be undertaken by appropriately trained staff.
Set 3:
Includes basic off the shelf wrist sprints and orthoses, in a range of sizes, predominantly for patients with peripheral nerve injury, but may also be used to maintain wrist or ankle positioning or provide protection in other patients. Require close monitoring, especially in patients with reduced sensation or consciousness.
Set 4:
Includes non-consumable equipment for patient assessment, including stethoscope, oximeter, and goniometer – for 1 professional (or shared between 2-3). Repeat orders are not required unless staff numbers increase or items are lost. This set also includes consumables for respiratory interventions - including incentive spirometers (single patient use) and suction tubing to make bubble PEP, that are not anticipated to be needed in significant quantities.
Set 5:
Includes static (foam) pressure reducing mattresses that can be used to support a surge in complex inpatient cases or provided to patients with long term injuries to use at home. The module contains 4 identical mattresses. It must be noted that even patients using pressure reducing mattresses still need to be managed under normal skin care/pressure relieving precautions.
Related information
Publications
Minimum technical standards and recommendations for rehabilitation in emergency medical teams
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