Life-saving First-aid Basics of Hemorrhage Control
First-aid steps for any injury should begin with identifying yourself and reassuring the injured person that...
Keep Your Medic Safe While You’re Under Fire.
"I am dying.”
This was the tweet posted by Oleysa Zhukovskaya, a 21-year-old woman who volunteered to work as ...
Expert Advice for Treating Animal Bites
The Great Outdoors is, well, great, but there’s always a risk of coming face to face with one of its residents. Most of...
The environment plays a large role in your success as a medic in survival settings. If you don’t take weather conditions and other factors into account, you hav...
Mental issues in survival scenarios can be just as deadly as the physical challenges brought about by any natural or man-made disaster. The ultimate factor, how...
Survival conditions might lead to situational depression.
In a natural or man-made disaster, the challenges will certainly be demanding from a physical stan...
As a medic, you might one day have to decide whether to administer an expired medication. What's your plan?
In a disaster, especially a long-term collapse,...
During normal times, your main goal upon encountering an injured or ill person is to get them to a modern medical facility as soon as possible. These medical as...
