You might’ve gotten into trouble for it in school, but daydreaming can be great for your survival. I learned this the hard way as a method of keeping myself present…

Back by popular demand! This is the one handed method for self-application of an improvised pressure dressing. Thanks to everyone who offered suggestions on how to make it better. If…

Wound Packing? Or Tourniquet? Multiple Gunshot Wounds (GSW) means you need to quickly identify the most serious wounds and focus on those first. It can be easy to get sidetracked…

Last week we learned out to pack a wound and now we learn how to apply an improvised pressure dressing to control bleeding in an emergency. If you learned something…

Tourniquets don’t fix everything. Having the skills to treat the most common life-threatening bleeds is a great idea, and wound packing is so easy they let Marines do it. If…

If you think about it, humans are soft, slow, delicious meat bags with no natural defenses like long teeth or claws. Our greatest strength is our ability to work together,…

A tense situation out of Bakersfield California when a man with a handgun is confronted by police. If you liked the video you can support the channel by subscribing and…

Time is everything and the closer your trauma kit is, the more likely you will make the difference. It’s hard to have a kit on you, and it’s definitely not…

This is one of the latest tourniquets that has been approved by the Committee for TCCC and functions like the CAT. But the Tactical Mechanical Tourniquet has some differences that…

First aid for burns is limited to cooling the burn, protecting from infection, and transporting to the hospital for care. Alcohol fires can be especially dangerous because it can burn…