You know, we talk a lot about medical supplies that you have to get serious training for, like tourniquets, hemostatic dressings, decompression needles, and the like, but there are important supp...
The state of Texas is no stranger to weather extremes, especially in summer, but it’s going through a new experience with its largest winter wildfire on record. The Smokehouse Creek Fire in the...
The Fourth of July is coming up, and many proud Americans will be celebrating with fireworks. An unlucky (careless?) few will wind up running afoul of their own pyrotechnics. Just ask my old budd...
The news has been full of events related to chemical emergencies, including derailment, factory explosions, and even junkyard fires. In this companion video to a previous article, Dr. Joe Alto...
People in off-grid settings are often called upon to perform activities to which they’re not accustomed. In daily survival, the inexperienced will suffer mishaps that lead to injury; in situati...
In this article, I’d like to discuss the effects of inhaling smoke caused by fires. Smoke inhalation involves the breathing in of toxic gases and particulate matter, causing emergency respirato...
In the United States, more than 450,000 people require medical treatment for burn injuries annually. In our last article, we discussed the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of first- and secon...
A wide variety of situations, both in normal times and disaster settings, put us in proximity with high levels of heat. If we’re knocked off the grid, it won’t be unusual to cook food over a ...
https://www.doomandbloom.net/burns-part-1-first-and-second-degree/
Some of our friends have discouraged us from speaking about the (hopefully) unlikely possibility of a nuclear event in the unstable and uncertain future, but everyone should know about them, not ...
https://www.doomandbloom.net/survival-medicine-podcast-nuclear-events-wound-closure-radiation/
In this video version of the Survival Medicine Podcast, Dr. Joe Alton and Nurse Amy Alton discuss the recent heat waves, especially in the West, where it’s been a cruel, cruel summer, with wild...