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Grid-Down Medicine — A Guide for When Help Is NOT on the Way
Manage episode 413031302 series 2756263
If you read most first aid guides, the last step in treating someone who’s gotten injured or sick is always: get the victim to professional medical help.
But what if you found yourself in a situation where hospitals were overcrowded, inaccessible, or non-functional? What if you found yourself in a grid-down, long-term disaster, and you were the highest medical resource available?
Dr. Joe Alton is an expert in what would come after the step where most first aid guides leave off. He’s a retired surgeon and the co-author of The Survival Medicine Handbook: The Essential Guide for When Help is NOT on the Way. Today on the show, Joe argues that every family should have a medical asset and how to prepare to be a civilian medic. We discuss the different levels of first aid kits to consider creating, from an individual kit all the way up to a community field hospital. And we talk about the health-related skills you might need in a long-term grid-down disaster, from burying a dead body, to closing a wound with super glue, to making an improvised dental filling, to even protecting yourself from the radiation of nuclear fallout.
Resources Related to the Podcast
- AoM Article: How to Use a Tourniquet to Control Major Bleeding
- AoM Article: The Complete Guide to Making a DIY First Aid Kit
- AoM Article: How to Suture a Wound
- AoM Article: What Every Man Should Keep in His Car
- AoM Article: Improvised Ways to Close a Wound
- AoM Podcast #869: The Survival Myths That Can Get You Killed With Alone Winner Jim Baird
Connect With Joe Alton
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Manage episode 413031302 series 2756263
If you read most first aid guides, the last step in treating someone who’s gotten injured or sick is always: get the victim to professional medical help.
But what if you found yourself in a situation where hospitals were overcrowded, inaccessible, or non-functional? What if you found yourself in a grid-down, long-term disaster, and you were the highest medical resource available?
Dr. Joe Alton is an expert in what would come after the step where most first aid guides leave off. He’s a retired surgeon and the co-author of The Survival Medicine Handbook: The Essential Guide for When Help is NOT on the Way. Today on the show, Joe argues that every family should have a medical asset and how to prepare to be a civilian medic. We discuss the different levels of first aid kits to consider creating, from an individual kit all the way up to a community field hospital. And we talk about the health-related skills you might need in a long-term grid-down disaster, from burying a dead body, to closing a wound with super glue, to making an improvised dental filling, to even protecting yourself from the radiation of nuclear fallout.
Resources Related to the Podcast
- AoM Article: How to Use a Tourniquet to Control Major Bleeding
- AoM Article: The Complete Guide to Making a DIY First Aid Kit
- AoM Article: How to Suture a Wound
- AoM Article: What Every Man Should Keep in His Car
- AoM Article: Improvised Ways to Close a Wound
- AoM Podcast #869: The Survival Myths That Can Get You Killed With Alone Winner Jim Baird
Connect With Joe Alton
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