The Meditrak FIVs carry comprehensive medical kits, enabling the medical teams to provide effective medical intervention on-track.

Meditrak is not a first aid provider.

Although we provide first aid services when needed, our teams comprise skilled medical practitioners, nurses and ambulance paramedics.

We are providing services at an Advanced Life Support (ALS) level, and in many situations will provide advanced medical services on-track or in the circuit medical centres. To achieve this we have a comprehensive medical equipment ressource. This is an important issue for Meditrak and one that requires special consideration when addressing budget issues for services at race meetings.

Our FIV kits typically include a Thomas Pack (a comprehensive trauma life support kit), Oxyviva resuscitator, monitor defibrillator, cervical collars, folding stretcher, KED (Kendrik Extrication Device), Propaq (intensive care patient monitor) and two dry chemical extinguishers. Some of these items will also be provided by the on-site ambulance vehicle.

The Thomas Pack is a comprhensive field medical pack used by rescue medical operators. It was one of the first packs of its kind introduced around the world. It provides a transportable kit of advanced medical equipment that enables medical and paramedical personnel to carry out advanced medical interventions in the field. The kit carries advanced airway equipment, multiple intravenous access kits, a full intensive care pharmaceutical pack, chest tube insertion kit and many more items including emergency surgical airway kits.

In addition to cardiac monitor defibrillators Meditrak FIVs carry intensive care patient monitoring equipment. The Propac monitor provides continuous monitoring of a patient's blood pressure, ECG and blood oxygen saturation.

Additional resources provided by the on-site ambulance include extrication and rescue equipment, advanced splinting systems, stretchers and backup medical supplies. When State Ambulance, such as the Ambulance Service of New South Wales, are used at race meetings, immediate radio communication with Ambulance Control ensures a timely response to requests for additiona ambulance resources or Medical Helicopter Rescue Services, such as Careflight.

Meditrak sets up a medical treatment area at each event.It may be a basic first aid type area, or a more comprehensive set-up that provides for advanced medical resuscitation. The set-up depends on the nature of the race event, and sometimes the specification under which the event is conducted. We do not attempt to create a 'field hospital'. If a casulaty requires major surgery then our focus must be urgent transfer to a trauma centre for definitive care.