Survival - Medical: Books, Videos

Ragnar gives you precise instructions for securing and using the very latest drugs and supplies from animal health centers, foreign pharmacies, mail order suppliers, military dispensaries and other unusual sources.

Ragnar Benson is America's most-esteemed survival expert. He has written more than 20 books for Paladin throughout the years on a variety of topics covering everything from weapons to politics to survival medicine.
$20.00
Softcover 978-0-87364-918-6 126 pages 5.5" x 8.5" photos, illustrations

From his years helping Third World natives, Ragnar Benson brings you this handbook for doctoring humans with readily obtainable, cheaply priced vet medicines that are often identical to prescription drugs and cost only a fraction as much. Tetanus, typhoid and gun-wound infections will never again strike fear in the hearts of survivalists who pack this illustrated handbook in with their antibiotics, syringes, sulfa drugs, sewing needles and sutures.

Ragnar Benson is America's most-esteemed survival expert. He has written more than 20 books for Paladin throughout the years on a variety of topics covering everything from weapons to politics to survival medicine.
$15.00
Softcover 978-0-87364-256-9 80 pages 4" x 6" photos

This handy pocket-size guide is packed with all the info you need to stay alive and well in the field, including disease diagnosis and treatment, drugs and dosages, emergency paramedical skills and preventive medicine. Special sections cover wartime emergencies (burn and blast injuries; nuclear, biological and chemical warfare; and emergency surgery) as well as primitive and veterinary medicine, obstetrics, pediatrics and orthopedics. Also includes practical survival techniques.
$30.00
Softcover 978-0-87364-454-9 608 pages 4.5" x 7.25" illustrations

Are you prepared for any disaster or medical emergency? Even if you're not a paramedic, you should know how to care for yourself and your loved ones when medical aid isn't readily available. In Ditch Medicine: The Video Series, best-selling author and emergency medicine expert Hugh Coffee gives you the detailed, step-by-step instruction you need to save lives in a crisis. In Volume 1, Coffee explains in easy-to-understand, layman's terms the critical role that intravenous (IV) therapy plays in emergency medicine and teaches you every detail of selecting, administering and troubleshooting IVs. Through graphic demonstrations on live patients, he teaches you all the basics of IV therapy as well as lesser-known emergency procedures such as the insertion and use of gastronasal tubes and IV administration through venous cutdown. Until you're prepared for ditch medicine, you're not prepared. For academic study only.

Whether it's a war zone or a civil disaster area, traumatic injuries often occur in remote, unsanitary locations. This book teaches advanced field procedures for small wound repair, care of the infected wound, IV therapy, pain control, amputations, treatment of burns, airway procedures and more.

Hugh L Coffee is a professional paramedic with extensive experience administering emergency medicine in Third World and battlefield environments. His many specialities include improvising medical equipment from available materials and performing disaster-medicine procedures under primitive conditions.
$25.00
Softcover 978-1-58160-390-3 224 pages 5.5" x 8.5" photos, illust.

One of the most overlooked topics in the field of survival medicine is nursing. Doctors or medically trained survivors can patch up a patient after an injury or accident, but it is the survival nurse who provides extended long-term care as well as the dozens of related activities that support the healing process under less-than-ideal conditions. This timely companion to Ragnar Benson's best-selling books on survival medicine tackles the many issues that every serious survival nursing program must face. You will learn the ins and outs of the "big five" considerations of survival nursing; the must-have supplies to keep in stock and how to obtain them; tricks for handling the mountains of laundry generated by a nursing station; how to maintain a low profile with your survival nursing station and why it's important; how to sew up wounds, pull teeth, deliver babies and provide physical therapy under primitive conditions; and more.

Ragnar Benson is America's most-esteemed survival expert. He has written more than 20 books for Paladin throughout the years on a variety of topics covering everything from weapons to politics to survival medicine.
$19.00
Softcover 978-1-58160-075-9 160 pages 5.5" x 8.5" photos

Tactical Medicine is a detailed crash course in the administration of emergency care under the most life-threatening conditions. Packed with invaluable information and insights from a veteran tactical medic, this book is an excellent introduction to providing critical medical care when lives hang in the balance – both yours and your patient's. You will learn the three stages of tactical medicine, the vital priorities of administering care under fire, the realities of setting up an efficient triage system, the must-have equipment and supplies for a tactical medicine kit and the best methods for transporting your gear while on the scene. Whether you are a medic assigned to a SWAT team or military unit, an EMT thinking of entering law enforcement or a student who is interested in this dynamic field of medicine, this book is a fantastic reference.

Ian McDevitt is a former U.S. Army Airborne infantry officer (Reserves) who currently works for a hospital-based paramedic service in northeastern Connecticut. He is a graduate of several advanced tactical and wilderness medical schools and has been a street paramedic for 12 years.
$15.00
Softcover 978-1-58160-255-5 106 pages 5.5" x 8.5" photos, illust.

One of the most overlooked aspects of lethal combat is the aftermath: what if you or your battle buddy is gravely injured and needs medical attention before the EMTs arrive? In this video, former Israeli Special Forces medic Garret Machine teaches you the lifesaving skills he learned on some of the world's most dangerous battlefields. He begins by putting together a basic first aid kit comprised of items anyone can purchase, and from there goes into how each one is used, from personal bandages to tourniquets to airway devices and more. Concentrating on a step-by-step schematic of assessment and treatment of the most severe injuries first, Machine prepares you for the kinds of medical contingencies you're most likely to encounter as a result of damage in the field: stopping arterial bleeding, providing rescue breathing, and prepping your patient for transport. He keeps the focus on tactical situations rather than the perfection of an antiseptic hospital so that if the worst should happen, wherever it is, you'll be prepared and ready. For information purposes only.