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General First Aid: Dealing With Injuries Off The Grid
Living on a working homestead is a great test bed for long-term survival situations. On the homestead, you learn and put into practice the skills of self-sufficiency. You produce food. You learn to make for yourself many of the things that most folks these days run to the store to buy in a blister-packed, consumer-ready format. Unless you have very deep pockets, you learn to retask, reuse and refurbish everything from fencing to equipment and machinery. You improvise, adapt and overcome in true duct tape- and bailing-wire fashion, and keep things moving forward come what may.
In the process, you sometimes suffer injuries, so in keeping with the theme of self-sufficiency you need to develop the skills required to deal with at least the early stages of treatment. Unless you have a fully stocked clinic in your basement, dealing with injuries can involve a bit of improvisation and a whole lot of adapting and overcoming just like everything else on your spread.
Just because emergency medical services are currently available, don’t be lulled into thinking that wound and injury management aren’t skills that you need right now, because the EMS can take time to respond. Sometimes providing first aid, stabilizing an injury, and transporting a victim to professional care on your own is the most expedient course of action.
Source: http://www.offthegridnews.com/2013/11/02/general-first-aid-dealing-with-injuries-off-the-grid/
