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And they expire after a year.

• barking 11y ago
  Where I once worked we were obliged by law to keep a huge range of medications in a dedicated emergency kit. In the years I was there none were ever used or needed. The drugs ranged from salbutamol to adrenaline to glucagon, steroids, tablets for angina etc, etc. In the mandatory refresher courses we were also quietly advised that with our level of emergency experience and thus diagnostic ability we were far more likely to do harm than good with these and so there were only a couple of items in the kit that we should ever even think of using. Only one company was approved for the supply of these kits and they'd regularly contact us advising that such and such now needed replacing and invoice us. Not only was it onerously expensive but what was really annoying was that they never supplied anything with a full shelf life. Stuff that might have several years shelf life would commonly be supplied with a year or even less left to expiry.