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 OFF-GRID VERSUS NO-GRID MEDICAL PREPPING HOW TO USE THIS BOOK CHAPTER 2 ASSESSMENT AND STABILIZATION ASSESSMENT AND CARE INITIAL ASSESSMENT FOCUSED ASSESSMENT VITAL SIGNS MEDICAL HISTORY AND PHYSICAL EXAMINATION SHOCK DIFFICULT RESPIRATIONS FOREIGN BODY AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION ADULT ONE-RESCUER CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION (CPR) ADULT TWO-RESCUERCPR RAPID BREATHING CARDIAC EVALUATION AND CARE RAPID HEART RATE SLOW HEART RATE CHAPTER 3 BODY SYSTEM SYMPTOMS AND MANAGEMENT SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT EYE NOSE EAR MOUTH AND THROAT CHEST ABDOMEN REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS POISONING MANAGING DIABETES WATER AND WASTE CHAPTER 4 RADIATION CHAPTER 5 DENTAL CARE CHAPTER 6 SOFT TISSUE CARE AND TRAUMA MANAGEMENT THE BLEEDING WOUND WOUND CLOSURE TECHNIQUES SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS OTHER TYPES OF WOUNDS FINGER AND TOE PROBLEMS WOUND INFECTION AND INFLAMMATION SKIN RASH CHAPTER 7 ORTHOPEDICS–BONE AND JOINT PAIN AND INJURY MANAGEMENT OFF THE GRID CONCEPTS OF ORTHOPEDIC CARE DIAGNOSIS AND CARE PROTOCOLS CHAPTER 8 BITES AND STINGS VENEMOUS STINGS SNAKEBITES INSECT BITES AND STINGS AQUATIC STINGS, CUTS, AND RASHES CHAPTER 9 BIOTERRORISM AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE MANAGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN NORTH AMERICA AND POTENTIAL OFF-GRID TRAVEL DESTINATIONS CHAPTER 10 ENVIRONMENTAL INJURIES HYPOTHERMIA COLD-STRESSINJURIES HEAT-STRESSINJURIES LIGHTNING HIGH ALTITUDE ILLNESSES CHAPTER 11 The OFF-GRID MEDICAL KIT ALTERNATIVE AND HERBAL THERAPY REPLACEMENT MEDICATIONS Prepper’s Medical Resource Bookshelf Clinical Reference Index About the Author 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