First Aid book

[Frnc]

Was looking for a good first aid book. First one I found is a bit of a mystery.
Survival Medicine Guide Book Second Edition 3 April 2022
https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Survival-Med ... 076344695/
The reviews seemed irelevant (all foreign bar one, which was about an anime book), and the author was "ukrainian publishers". The book sounded good from the destcription, but I want one written by a real doctor.

So I searched the title

Found a book with a similar title, but not the same.
The Ultimate Survival Medicine Guide: Emergency Preparedness for ANY Disaster Paperback – Abridged, 20 Aug. 2015
by Joseph Alton (a doctor and his wife who is a nurse, they have a website https://www.doomandbloom.net/). https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ultimate-Survi ... 1629147702

Maybe the other one is a knock-off? This one is cheaper anyway.

Version above is 328 pages, paperback.

But there's a newer version with more than twice as many pages!

The Survival Medicine Handbook: The Essential Guide for When Help is NOT on the Way 4th Edition 2021, 694 pages!

You can get this on Amazon UK but it's twice the price, £33. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Survival-Medic ... 0988872501

Looks like this is the one to get, but it's a bit pricey.

Some of the reviews say the print quality is poor. Of course another downside is it is a big heavy book. Maybe I need something more succinct and lighter.

[Yorkshire Andy]

For the basics as i first aid this one is hard to beat to first aid at work level

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Concise-First- ... 31&sr=8-16

[Frnc]

For the basics as i first aid this one is hard to beat to first aid at work level

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Concise-First- ... 31&sr=8-16

Looks good, have put it in my basket for end of the month.

[Doug1943]

A quick quality check for First Aid manuals, if they have an accessible index or table of contents: does it cover "sucking chest wounds"?

If not, it was probably written for "normal" First Aid situations: car crashes, broken limbs, burns. But not for the sort of additional injuries you might encounter in a FHTF situation.

[Yorkshire Andy]

A quick quality check for First Aid manuals, if they have an accessible index or table of contents: does it cover "sucking chest wounds"?

If not, it was probably written for "normal" First Aid situations: car crashes, broken limbs, burns. But not for the sort of additional injuries you might encounter in a FHTF situation.

Sucking chest wounds you now leave uncovered down to European resuscitation council guidelines... reason being the old taped three side DIY dressing can if unmonitored can become totally occlusive through adhesion to what ever oozes out which would lead to a tension pneumothorax and probably death ... obviously shtf it's gloves off (or on) and ideally a Russel chest seal or equivalent slapped on


And of you want to see why it's no longer done graphic video and information below

https://www.crisis-medicine.com/a-sucki ... nd%20death.


Real real shtf it's a DIY set up of a clean water bottle , some rubber (pvc aquarium hose ) and a bit of fencing wire .... and a suture kit and keep the bottle lower than the chest.....

[Doug1943]

Whoa ... someone who knows what they're talking about! Thanks! Completely undoes what I was
taught fifty years ago.