Heavy flow is not massive hemorrhage: Tampons don’t belong in IFAKs Recently we posted a video outlining the challenges of using hemostatic granules as compared to gauze. In response, we were surprised by how many people advocated for tactical tampons to control massive hemorrhage in a gunshot wound. “Depending on the bullet hole size, tampon and…
Category: Trauma Medicine
Survival Medications: A Review Of Jase Medical Base Case
Survival Medications: A Review Of Jase Medical Base Case (Editor’s note – making preparations like these for yourself and your loved ones allows you to be better focused on the task at hand during a widespread disaster or emergency.) In this article, we examine Jase Medical and review one of its better-known products:…
Latvian Civil Defense Manual
H/T WRSA Latvia Disaster Prep Fully Translated Latvian Civil Defense Manual Courtesy of Concerned American at WRSA. Strongly Recommend you Save to Flash Drive for Future Reference. Prepare Accordingly.
Survival Medicine: Which Antibiotics To Have For Survival Settings?
Which Antibiotics To Have For Survival Settings? If a disaster throws you off the grid, your risk of traumatic injury increases but also that of infection. When someone thinks of an infectious disease event, they envision a deadly epidemic. Any catastrophe, however, can increase the number of people with infections. When I say “catastrophe”,…
Prepper Reference Library: Survival and Austere Medicine Book – Free Download
SURVIVAL & AUSTERE MEDICINE BOOK – FREE DOWNLOAD Download this to your Flash Drive Reference Library ASAP and Share the link with all your Friends. Time is Short and the World is Getting Diablo Ghost Pepper Spicy by the second. Self-Sufficiency when it comes to Medicine and Medical Procedures are a MUST. …
Emergency Medicine Twofer
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We’ve Lost Another Survival Tool
We’ve Lost Another Survival Tool I’ve mentioned that back in July, the FDA closed the legal loophole that allowed folks to purchase veterinary antibiotics without a prescription. Many companies have ignored the law change and continued to sell the “veterinary” antibiotics. Those companies got a warning letter from the FDA recently and I don’t…
Trauma Medicine: Treating Penetrating Chest Injuries
Treating Penetrating Chest Injuries An open chest wound can lead to the development of tension pneumothorax. Tension pneumothorax is the second leading cause of preventable trauma deaths on the battlefield. It is the progressive build-up of air within the pleural space between the lung and the chest wall. As the air in the pleural…
Practical/Tactical Field Medicine: Basic Wound Management – Fundamentals of Sutures and First Aid
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,…