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Abdominal Aortic Tourniquet (AAT)
Austere Medicine Jay P.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql7w9ho79T8&w=560&h=315 Published on Jul 19, 2013 The Abdominal Aortic Tourniquet (AAT) is the most stable device available to treat non-compressible junctional pelvic bleeding. It is FDA approved for difficult to control inguinal bleeding. The AAT is the only junctional device that has actually saved human life! Click here to learn more!
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Wound Packing
Austere Medicine Jay P.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KHaXzwdyes&w=560&h=315 Great video from the pros over at www.TacMedSolutions.com. Hop on over to their YouTube channel and give them a like! Uploaded on Oct 23, 2007 Visit our educational blog at www.tacmedsolutions.com for more information.
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How to do a trauma assessment for preppe…
Austere Medicine Jay P.
[caption id="attachment_200" align="alignright" width="300"] TCCC with CAG[/caption] Naturally before we begin it needs to be said: CALL 911. However since we are a page dedicated to prepping and crisis management, it stands to reason that in this venue there is no 911 or 911 isn't coming. Either way YOU need to act.... Why start with trauma? Trauma is universal to every major catastrophe that's hit the US since 1776. Of course we support learning how to shoot and the myriad of...
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Where are the Doctors?
Austere Medicine Collin
The Scary Reality of Casualty Evacuation to a higher level of care: You see it on Medical Survival and S.H.T.F. blogs often; Preppers with little to no medical knowledge or experience asking how to cut holes in peoples necks to breathe for them, push antibiotics and intravenous fluids they don't know about, and throw in a chest tube by cutting a hole in their thoracic cavity. What if a wrong intervention is performed, or the right one but the wrong time...