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.
If you don't have medical education and training already this book can't help you, in fact, it can hurt you. If you do, then it could be a good reference.
ReplyDeleteI recommend attending class for Stop The Bleed, CPR, or even an EMT at the local college.
DeleteSTB is free. CPR by Red Cross is free or low cost.
Excellent advice.
DeleteMy wife is a wound care nurse. She has her tools, medications, etc. I may buy this book, but if she can't fix me or get me to a hospital, I'm pretty much screwed.
ReplyDeleteI not only recommend the Forgey book, I've sat in on his wilderness med lectures.
ReplyDeleteHe's the real deal, and his advice is 24K gold.
Buy this book. Learn it. Live it.
You don't have to know how to use it, if you know someone who knows how to use it. Have some basics on hand so someone knowledgeable has something to work with.
ReplyDeleteFind and take a wilderness first aid course. It will teach you how to address issues with the items you have on hand. It's only a weekend but it will change the way you look at things...
ReplyDelete- You are your own first responder -