Quick Post: Get your blood typed
Let’s talk about why it’s good to know your blood type. If the grid is down, and you’re down and in need of a blood transfusion, it’s going to make […]
Tuning fork and a stethoscope: Poor Man’s Xray
Inspired by PA4Ortho, I submit the following: Allow me to briefly don the cape of Captain Obvious, and state that Xray machines are somewhat hard to come by out in […]
Rapid trauma quiz – how we scored
Thanks to everyone for coming over and reading the Rapid Trauma Assessment – Part II. We had great participation in the five question quiz at the end, and we want […]
The scratch test. The resource poor mans ultrasound.
Palpation of the belly for pathology is a fine art. One tool for outlining the solid organs of the belly or detecting large amounts of blood vs air is the […]
Homemade Insulin: Part I
I remember, of course, the day it happened. He was such a young tike, too. Not even a year old. He’d had a fever for the last couple of days, […]
The rapid trauma assessment – Part II
Part I [Skip to the quiz if you’d like] On his way over to Charlie’s, Bill connected with Reggie Hammond, his neighbor from across the street. Reggie and his wife […]
Quick Post: All aboard the FEMA train – the Incident Command System
Now, I know a lot of us on the site have political views that are to the right of Patrick Henry and we get suspicious of anything Federal that comes […]
Quick Post: Deadlift
3 weeks on service does bad things to your fitness. Today, back to Crossfit. Set a new PR in deadlift, 365 pounds. (for reference, my bodyweight is 197). I am, […]
Quick Post: CERT comment worthy of reflection
I am of the opinion that most folks reading this need to be part of the local CERT team. It gets you relatively inexpensive training, networking, opportunity for additional training […]
The rapid trauma assessment – part I
The hurricane came in off the Atlantic and slammed into the Carolina coasts at 2am on Thursday. For once, the weather forecasters were right, and it did not weaken to […]
Hogwarts School of Grid-Down Medicine and Wizardry 