Emergency Preparedness & Survival Protocols
A tourniquet stops limb bleeding. Wound packing stops bleeding everywhere else — the neck, the groin, the armpit, the torso. These are the junctional wounds that a tourniquet cannot reach and that kill faster than almost any other injury. Packing a wound correctly buys time. Done wrong, it provides false reassurance while the patient bleeds […]
Burns are among the most common serious injuries in grid-down scenarios — open fire cooking, rocket stoves, lanterns, pressure canners, improvised heating. They are also among the most mismanaged. The instinct to apply butter, toothpaste, or ice to a burn is deeply embedded in folk practice and wrong in every case. This post covers what
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In normal circumstances, wound infections are an inconvenience. In a grid-down scenario without access to prescription antibiotics or medical care, a wound infection can become a limb-threatening or life-threatening event within days. This is not a hypothetical — infected wounds killed more soldiers in every pre-antibiotic war than combat did. The knowledge that prevents that
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