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Deliver quality healthcare in the most challenging field conditions
Full of practical clinical pearls and proven strategies, this indispensible guide shows you how to operate outside your comfort zone and devise effective treatment solutions when the traditional tools (medications, equipment, and staff) are unavailable—or when you need to provide care outside of your specialty. Improvised Medicine is a must for anyone who plans to work in global, disaster, or other resource-poor settings.
FEATURES:
- Simple-to-follow directions, diagrams, and illustrations describe practical techniques and the improvised equipment necessary to provide quality care during crises.
- Contains improvisations in anesthesia and airway management, dentistry, gynecology/obstetrics, infectious disease/laboratory diagnosis, internal medicine, otolaryngology, pediatrics and malnutrition, orthopedics, psychiatry, and surgery.
- Also includes basic disaster communication techniques, post-disaster forensics, a model hospital disaster plan, and innovative patient-transport methods.
LEARN HOW TO:
- Make an endotracheal tube in seconds
- Perform digital-oral and blind-nasotracheal intubations
- Make plaster bandages for splints/casts
- Give open-drop ether, ketamine drips, and halothane
- Use subcutaneous/intraperitoneal rehydration/transfusion
- Make ORS and standard nutrition formulas
- Clean, disinfect, and sterilize equipment for reuse
- Warm blood units in seconds inexpensively
- Take/view stereoscopic x-rays with standard equipment
- Quickly and easily stop postpartum hemorrhage
- Fashion surgical equipment from common items
- Evacuate patients easily for high-rise hospitals
- Make esophageal and precordial stethoscopes
- Quickly improvise a saline lock
- Make ECG electrode/defibrillator pads and ultrasound gel
Direct download links available for Free Improvised Medicine: Providing Care in Extreme Environments [Paperback]
- Paperback: 578 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (December 6, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0071754970
- ISBN-13: 978-0071754972
- Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 6 x 9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Free Improvised Medicine: Providing Care in Extreme Environments
My disclaimer, I am not a doctor or medical professional. My medical training has entailed Combat Life Saver, Special Operations Tactical Combat Casualty Care, Emergency Medical Technician - Intermediate (EMT-I) and EMT-T (Tactical) (both of which I am not current) and various medical cross-training I have received from Special Forces medics. My experience has included treating combat wounded personnel (all trauma related) and provided third world medical support and assistance in South-west Asia and Africa. So my review and recommendation is from my perspective on this topic.
This book does an excellent job of providing advance skills to layman and professional. I found with my limited medical background the information presented in this book, I could accomplish in-extremis situations. I have read various books on emergency, primitive, survivalist and backcountry medical care and none have compared to this text. Some of the books in my library I am referring to are listed below;
"Ditch Medicine: Advanced Field Procedures for Emergencies" by Hugh Coffee
"Where There Is No Doctor" by David Werner
"Where There Is No Dentist" by Murray Dickson
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