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…
Tag: Trauma Medicine
W.O.F.T. Training
What is W.O.F.T. Training? There is a misconception that simply having a firearm can solve any problem, but this is flatly wrong. If someone approaches you in a dimly lit parking lot yelling out at you, your natural response shouldn’t be to draw your concealed firearm and deposit some hollow points into them. W.O.F.T. is…
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:…
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
CARRYING & DRAGGING TECHNIQUES – LET’S GET CARRIED AWAY TRIANGULAR BANDAGE: MORE THAN A DOZEN USES
Three Must Have *FREE* Kindle Books for your Survivalist Library
Free Books – Part 289 Discover Edible Wild Plants: Your Introductory Handbook to Foraging – Feed Your Family Nutritiously and for Free – Today! 31 Edible Wild Plants Absolutely Anyone Can Find in North America: A Beginner’s Path to Safe and Successful Foraging Multilingual Dictionary of Medical Emergencies: English French Spanish Italian…
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,…
Medical Reference: Infectious Disease in the TEOTWAWKI World (Parts 1-6)
Part 1: https://survivalblog.com/2015/11/10/infectious-disease-in-the-teotwawki-world-part-1-by-militant-medic/ Part 2: https://survivalblog.com/2015/11/11/infectious-disease-in-the-teotwawki-world-part-2-by-militant-medic/ Part 3: https://survivalblog.com/2015/11/12/infectious-disease-in-the-teotwawki-world-part-3-by-militant-medic/ Part 4: https://survivalblog.com/2015/11/13/infectious-disease-in-the-teotwawki-world-part-4-by-militant-medic/ Part 5: https://survivalblog.com/2015/11/14/infectious-disease-in-the-teotwawki-world-part-5-by-militant-medic/ Part 6: https://survivalblog.com/2015/11/15/infectious-disease-in-the-teotwawki-world-part-6-by-militant-medic/ *Stick this on a Flash Drive AND Make a Hard Copy for your FIELD BINDER.
The Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerilla
You can download the above manual at John Spencer’s Website. Highly recommend you bookmark this site as well, LOTS of good stuff there! I also Highly Recommend you read all of John Spencer’s Urban Warfare Case Studies over at Modern War Institute Via WRSA: You will see this material again. The only real question…