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Practical not Tactical: Heavy flow is not massive hemorrhage – Tampons don’t belong in IFAKs

Posted on 26 July 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

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…

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W.O.F.T. Training

Posted on 20 July 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

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…

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Survival Medications: A Review Of Jase Medical Base Case

Posted on 6 July 20246 July 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

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:…

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Prepper Reference Library: Survival and Austere Medicine Book – Free Download

Posted on 22 March 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

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.    …

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Emergency Medicine Twofer

Posted on 8 February 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

  CARRYING & DRAGGING TECHNIQUES – LET’S GET CARRIED AWAY     TRIANGULAR BANDAGE: MORE THAN A DOZEN USES    

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Three Must Have *FREE* Kindle Books for your Survivalist Library

Posted on 2 February 20242 February 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

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…

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Trauma Medicine: Treating Penetrating Chest Injuries

Posted on 20 October 202320 October 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

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…

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Practical/Tactical Field Medicine: Basic Wound Management – Fundamentals of Sutures and First Aid

Posted on 8 September 20238 September 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

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,…

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Medical Reference: Infectious Disease in the TEOTWAWKI World (Parts 1-6)

Posted on 8 August 20238 August 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

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.  

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The Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerilla

Posted on 23 July 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

  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…

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