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Austere management of Lower Back Pain (L…
Austere Medicine Collin
Austere management of Lower Back Pain: Lower Back Pain can be difficult to treat, even with the luxuries of modern medicine. In an austere environment, proper diagnosis and treatment can prevent further injury and start the slow process back to recovery so you can get one of your fellow Emergency Action Members back on their feet. This is a quick little introduction that barely scrapes the surface, and is not to be taken as gospel. Acute Lower Back Pain...
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Review:Tactical Suction Device (Video)
Austere Medicine Jay P.
Suction is often overlooked in field medical discussions. Here is the Tactical Suction Device by North American Rescue... https://youtu.be/TGYO84-DDc4
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Improvised pelvic splint
Austere Medicine Jay P.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtFBs_DXHwI&w=560&h=315 Austere medical tips for stabilizing a fractured pelvis with supplies you have in your aidbag. If you don't have a pelvis sling you can fashion a hasty sling out of a TQ and SAM splint. Take a look! www.CAGmain.com
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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...