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US Army Special Forces Medical Handbook

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Book is good source for medical knowledge in bad situations, it doesn't take the place of actual classroom and hands on instruction, but if you have neither, this is a good reference.

The book was ok but it had a lot of old techniques and the shipper that I went with packed the book badly. I got the darn thing in the mail nearly bent in half.

This book is a cheap knock-off that could just as easily have been produced on a printer in a garage.
The fonts, resolution, distinguishing section, and overall deportment of this book relegate it to the
bad purchased section of any home book case.

Few people get hurt more often than military members, and they are very imaginative in the ways they find to damage themselves. (Like the drunken [guy] who rocked a vending machine while trying to steel a pop, and instead got the whole machine which smashed him flat.) Whereas there was not a lot his buddies could have done for him, most of the injuries I see could have been ameliorated had someone known what to do. I wish more people knew more about basic first aid. Many times, when people die in car crashes or whatever, the person could have been saved with some very basic, very easy steps. Stop the bleeding, open the airway, etc. Please read this book. Sooner or later, the little things you learn will almost surely come in handy. I'm tired of seeing injured people totally untreated until the ambulance arrives when there are often a dozen or more adults around who just do not know what to do.

I thought this book was the US Army Special Forces Medical Handbook: United States Army Institute for Military Assistance. It's not!! All the info is good but it looks like it is a printoff from a PDF put into paperback. I wanted a book to put in a emergency kit. Finding a particular cause and remedy in this book would take considerable time when time is of the essense. Get the book I just mentioned first.

Few people get hurt more often than military members, and they are very imaginative in the ways they find to damage themselves. (Like the drunken [man] who rocked a vending machine while trying to steel a pop, and instead got the whole machine which smashed him flat.) Whereas there was not a lot his buddies could have done for him, most of the injuries I see could have been ameliorated had someone known what to do. I wish more people knew more about basic first aid. Many times, when people die in car crashes or whatever, the person could have been saved with some very basic, very easy steps. Stop the bleeding, open the airway, etc. Please read this book. Sooner or later, the little things you learn will almost surely come in handy. I'm tired of seeing injured people totally untreated until the ambulance arrives when there are often a dozen or more adults around who just do not know what to do.