Basic Wound Management: Fundamentals of Sutures and First Aid You’ll not learn what you need to know to sew up wounds from reading an article in a magazine, even one as awesome as Be Ready! However, I do hope to whet your appetite. Like plumbing, car repair, or electrical work, suturing wounds isn’t hard,…
Category: Tactical Medicine
Blood-Type and NKA Patches: Worthwhile or “Tacticool”?
Blood-Type and NKA Patches: Worthwhile or “Tacticool”? Greg Ellifritz over at A.R.T. made a comment on this that I agree with 100%: Regardless of what type you have written/ patched/ or stickered, the ER is still going to type your blood before administering. Simply to help avoid that liability. They have no way of…
TCCC Twofer: Tactical Field Care, Massive Hemorrhage, and the Blood Sweep
Tactical Field Care, Massive Hemorrhage, and the Blood Sweep Make no mistake, one of the biggest area’s of training that martial civilians neglect is TCCC (Tactical Combat Casualty Care.) Part 2 of this Excellent series can be found HERE. Train Hard. Train Realistically and Prepare Accordingly.
Field Medicine: How to Suture – DIY Guide to Wound Closure Methods
HOW TO SUTURE: DIY GUIDE TO WOUND CLOSURE METHODS If there is one area of Preparation that most martial citizens neglect it is trauma medicine. In the coming days of unpleasantness, medical care know how and medical supplies will be a premium asset. I highly recommend you take some classes from seasoned pro’s like…
Field Medicine: Antibiotic Chart to Guide Acquisition
Antibiotic Chart to Guide Acquisition I would save and print out the chart in this article to have in your field and home medical bag. You never know when it might come in handy. Also check out this article on Acquiring Antibiotics.
Going Mobile
From the Archives, 2016 A learned a long time ago that when shit goes bad, it goes bad in a hurry. Very often you will have little to no time to think about what you really need to do, you are just going to have to react. The seasoned prepper knows from experience that there…
Tactical Medicine: Hemorrhage Control about Pressure, Not Absorption
Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!
Medical Kits 101: The Home Bag
We begin yet another series of articles, the goal of which is to guide you through the process of building various medical aid kits intentionally designed for differing environments and situations,… Source: Medical Kits 101: The Home Bag
Practical Tactical: Selecting Your Everyday Carry Tourniquet
Buyer Beware: Selecting Your Everyday Carry Tourniquet Common sense dictates that in today’s violent society it is only sensible to carry either on your person or in your vehicle methods of treating traumatic bleeding (hemorrhaging) from either gunshot wounds or stabbings. Quickclot trauma packs and C-A-T Tourniquets can be found in all my vehicles and…
Anarchist Medicine
Meet the Anarchists Making Their Own Medicine I like reading articles like this because it has so many possibilities for practical use, particularly in a survival/ SHTF situation. As martial civilians, we need to start learning how to think out of the box on every level and STOP depending on conventional society to fulfill our basic…