Improvised litters for emergency first aid

04
Dec
1

You’re in the woods with fellow survivalists practicing bushcraft for the end of the world as we know it when one of your fellow campers finds the shortest path from the top of a boulder to the ground; he’s fallen and broken his lower-leg. Being a savvy survivalist, you know how to splint the leg, but [...]

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Save Lives Like a Combat Medic: How to Splint a Lower-Leg Fracture

30
Nov
1

You’re miles from any civilization at a lookout point on a large boulder with a friend, taking in the beautiful fall scenery, when your buddy slips and falls to the ground. They’re holding their leg and screaming in pain; their tibia (shin bone) is sticking out of the skin, and blood is quickly escaping the [...]

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Save Lives Like a Combat Medic: How to Use a Tourniquet to Control Major Bleeding

05
Sep
1

What do you do when SHTF, you’re bleeding profusely from a limb, and you don’t have any first-aid equipment available? There is no valid prediction of what the future holds for society, where the world will be in a few years, or whether we’ll see the end of the world as we know it. We [...]

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