The prepper's medical handbook : how to provide medical care when you can't rely on anyone but yourself

"The basis of adequate prepping is being prepared for both common and dire events that may occur under the worst of all possible circumstances. These circumstances might include the breakdown in normal emergency support services (such as calling 911), the lack of an ability to obtain additional supplies, and the probability that you will not be able to rely on anyone but members of your immediate group or yourself. Prepping requires forethought with regard to food, water supplies, power, and protection - all areas of significant technical preparation. Self-reliant medical care is no exception. This book provides the basis of prevention, identification, and long-term management of survivable medical conditions and can be performed with minimal training. It helps you identify sources of materials you will need and should stock-pile, it discusses storage issues, and directs you to sources for more complex procedures that require advanced concepts of field-expedient techniques used by trained medical persons such as surgeons, anesthesiologists, dentists, or midwifes and obstetricians."--Google Books viewed Mar. 19, 2021 CHAPTER 1 HOW TO PREPARE FOR MEDICAL CARE OFF THE GRID 10 OFF-GRID VERSUS NO-GRID MEDICAL PREPPING 10 HOW TO USE THIS BOOK 11 CHAPTER 2 ASSESSMENT AND STABILIZATION 13 ASSESSMENT AND CARE 13 INITIAL ASSESSMENT 15 FOCUSED ASSESSMENT 17 VITAL SIGNS 18 MEDICAL HISTORY AND PHYSICAL EXAMINATION 21 SHOCK 22 DIFFICULT RESPIRATIONS 25 FOREIGN BODY AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION 25 ADULT ONE-RESCUER CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION (CPR) 26 ADULT TWO-RESCUERCPR 29 RAPID BREATHING 30 CARDIAC EVALUATION AND CARE 31 RAPID HEART RATE 34 SLOW HEART RATE 34 CHAPTER 3 BODY SYSTEM SYMPTOMS AND MANAGEMENT 36 SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT 36 EYE 45 NOSE 60 EAR 62 MOUTH AND THROAT 68 CHEST 71 ABDOMEN 74 REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS 86 POISONING 93 MANAGING DIABETES 95 WATER AND WASTE 97 CHAPTER 4 RADIATION 105 CHAPTER 5 DENTAL CARE 118 CHAPTER 6 SOFT TISSUE CARE AND TRAUMA MANAGEMENT 125 THE BLEEDING WOUND 127 WOUND CLOSURE TECHNIQUES 135 SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS 139 OTHER TYPES OF WOUNDS 142 FINGER AND TOE PROBLEMS 153 WOUND INFECTION AND INFLAMMATION 156 SKIN RASH 158 CHAPTER 7 ORTHOPEDICS–BONE AND JOINT PAIN AND INJURY 163 MANAGEMENT OFF THE GRID 163 CONCEPTS OF ORTHOPEDIC CARE 164 DIAGNOSIS AND CARE PROTOCOLS 173 CHAPTER 8 BITES AND STINGS 202 VENEMOUS STINGS 202 SNAKEBITES 205 INSECT BITES AND STINGS 209 AQUATIC STINGS, CUTS, AND RASHES 217 CHAPTER 9 BIOTERRORISM AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE 221 MANAGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN NORTH AMERICA AND POTENTIAL OFF-GRID TRAVEL DESTINATIONS 227 CHAPTER 10 ENVIRONMENTAL INJURIES 255 HYPOTHERMIA 255 COLD-STRESSINJURIES 261 HEAT-STRESSINJURIES 264 LIGHTNING 270 HIGH ALTITUDE ILLNESSES 274 CHAPTER 11 The OFF-GRID MEDICAL KIT 278 ALTERNATIVE AND HERBAL THERAPY 278 REPLACEMENT MEDICATIONS 305 Prepper’s Medical Resource Bookshelf 307 Clinical Reference Index 309 About the Author 321 The basis of adequate prepping is being prepared for both common and dire events that may occur under the worst of all possible circumstances. These circumstances might include the breakdown in normal emergency support services (such as calling 911), the lack of an ability to obtain additional supplies, and the probability that you will not be able to rely on anyone but members of your immediate group or yourself. Prepping requires forethought with regard to food, water supplies, power, and protection #8211; all areas of significant technical preparation. Self-reliant medical care is no exception. This book provides the basis of prevention, identification, and long-term management of survivable medical conditions and can be performed with minimal training. It helps you identify sources of materials you will need and should stock-pile, it discusses storage issues, and directs you to sources for more complex procedures that require advanced concepts of field-expedient techniques used by trained medical persons such as surgeons, anesthesiologists, dentists, or midwifes and obstetricians