EMS Moulage Technician

EMS Moulage Technician

SUPPLIES

Tools

Blow dryers – hair dryers
Extension cords (one per hair dryer)
Brushes – dusting, square edge (small, medium, large)
Brush Cleaner
Cotton balls
Cotton tip applicator with wooden handle
Disposable cups and medicine cups
Palette knife – sculptor’s knife
Patette or Plastic disposable plates for mixing colors
Pocket Comb
Scissors
Sponges – make up wedges and rounds
Squirt bottles
Stipple sponge – black porous sponge
Tongue depressors
Tooth brushes
Tweezers

Other Supplies

Aprons
Disposable table cloths or old vinyl table cloths
Drop cloths
Garbage bags for clean up or drop cloth
Gloves (latex safe for technicians)
Handiwipes or baby wipes
Paper towels
Plastic bags with seal to store supplies
Rags
Soap and water
Water
Old and/or disposable clothing
Old shoes

Colors for Makeup

Blythe Spirit base
Charcoal powder
Clay – modeling or mortician clay: white, brown, flesh
Bruise wheel: brown, burgundy, blue, green
Color wheels: cuts & bruises, burns & blisters, trauma
Beige grease paint
Black grease paint
Blue grease paint
Brown grease paint
Burgundy grease paint
Cyanotic grease paint
Purple grease paint
Red grease paint
White grease paint
Derma wax/ mortician wax
Skin tone grease paint- fair, olive, medium brown, dark brown
Shoe polish – black and brown

Foundations

Athletic tape
Castor sealer
Condoms – for simulating eviscerations
Elmer’s glue (or other nontoxic washable glue)
Gauze pads – 2x2 and 4x4 (use in creation of soft tissue wounds)
Liquid Latex
Latex Gloves (cut up for moulage)
Nylons/ stockings – to use for those who can not have latex
Petroleum jelly - Vaseline
Saran wrap
Toilet tissue
Tissue paper – colored sheets

Skin Prep

Cold cream/lotion (base for sensitive skin)
Nail Polish remover (for volunteer victims to clean off polish)
Baby wipes and facial wipes for clean up

Finishing Touches

Alka-seltzer tables – to be used for sucking chest wounds or foaming at the mouth
Assorted sticks for impalements - nails
Assorted stones
Blood Liquid
Blood Powder (blood can also be made see recipes)
Cake decorating – edible glitter (reflects light in burns and moist injuries)
Chicken bones (that have been cooked and soaked in bleach solution overnight)
Hair spray – non aerosol clear and black
Glycerin - simulates perspiration, spinal fluid
New Skin – first aide supply that acts like a sealer
Plastic knives and forks
Plexiglas and plastic pieces
Red vinyl from fabric store to simulate large pools of blood

Advances/ Special Effects Supplies: *

Bleeding wounds and pumps

Eye balls

Full sized manikins with interchangeable injuries

Impaled objects

Masks for shock and burns

Partial amputations

Pre-made scars and wounds

Pre-made burns with blisters

* These are very nice yet very expensive and difficult to retrieve. If you use them be sure to explain at the beginning that they must be returned to one of the Moulage Techs BEFORE refreshments. Then assign at least 2 Techs to stay till the end of the drill and collect the special effects in sandwich bags from both the Treatment sector and the Transport sector. If you are not having volunteer victims return to the drill site – establish a contact at the hospital in advance to collect those special effects.

Resources and Sources for Supplies

Blood, supplies and kits can be purchased from:

Armstrong Medical Supplies: (800)- 323- 4220 http://www.armstrongmedical.com/

Ben Nye: Image Perspective (775)- 882- 6257 http://www.moulage.net/

Simulaids: (800)- 431- 4310 http://www.simulaids.com/

Supplies can also be purchased at local pharmacy, make up counters

Grease paint can be purchased at theatrical stores & retail stores
(Look after Halloween !)

Blood can also be made from a variety of recipes but the supplies may cost as much as purchasing in bulk quantities.

Be sure to have a small supply of hypo- allergenic bases and to identify those individuals with Latex allergies BEFORE they are assigned a victim number that requires latex special effects.

Resources and Sources for Supplies

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