No one knows what the next disaster will be: earthquake, Coronavirus, flu epidemic, flood, terrorist attack. But everyone should know how to survive a medical emergency if a medical professional isn’t available. From Dr. Joe Alton and Amy Alton ARNP comes an updated edition of their bestseller The Survival Medicine Handbook. This unique medical book is meant to enable the average person to handle injuries and illness in situations in which modern medical facilities and professionals aren’t available due to a disaster. This book is written by America’s top medical preparedness experts: Joe Alton, MD, and Amy Alton, ARNP. Their mission: to put a medically prepared person in every family for when medical help is not on the way. Using decades of medical experience, they address, in plain language, dozens of medical issues associated with surviving disasters and epidemics. The Altons also discuss the medical supplies needed to become a medical asset to your family and community as well as alternative and natural strategies for when pharmaceuticals aren’t available. Topics include: Appendicitis and Conditions that Mimic It Urinary Tract Infections Mosquito-Borne Illnesses Allergic Reactions and Anaphylaxis Head Injuries Animal Bites Snake Bites Head injuries Kidney Stones Dislocations and Fractures Nosebleeds Pain Medications Natural Pain Relief And much much more! Most medical books will send you to the doctor or hospital when an emergency happens. The Altons assume that the worst might actually happen—that the average person could be left without medical help in a disaster. With their book, you can keep your family healthy in times of trouble.

Always Be Prepared What if your life was disrupted by a natural disaster, food or water supply contamination, or any other type of emergency? Do you have the essentials for you and your family? Do you have a plan in the event that your power, telephone, water and food supply are cut off for an extended amount of time? What if there were no medical or pharmaceutical services available for days, weeks, or months? How prepared are you? With this guide by your side, you and your family will learn how to plan, purchase, and store a three-month supply of all the necessities—food, water, fuel, first-aid supplies, clothing, bedding, and more—simply and economically. In other words, this book may be a lifesaver. Inside you'll find 10 steps to an affordable food storage program plus how to: •Prepare a home "grocery store" and "pharmacy" •Use what you store and store what you use •Store water safely and provide for sanitation needs •Create a first-aid kit, car kit, and 72-hour emergency kit for the whole family •And many more invaluable hints and tips "This clear, concise, step-by-step program is not only affordable and doable, it's essential in these uncertain times. Now, everyone from apartment dwellers to basement owners can store a three-month supply of the essentials, including peace of mind!" — Joni Hilton, author of Once-a-Week Cooking Plan and Cooking Secrets My Mother Never Taught Me

DESIGNED FOR MODERN EMERGENCIES Travel bans. Quarantines. Global Pandemics. Wildfires. The modern world is beset by disasters that governments and emergency services are ill-equipped to handle. In 2020 the best defense against these threats is to prepare yourself and your family against the ever-increasing dangers of the modern world. Survival and preparedness expert Joseph Pred and the editors of Outdoor Life magazine share 294 tips and plans to deal with dangers and scenarios that can affect your and your family’s safety. Be prepared - in today’s America, your best defense is to be ready. Packaged in a durable, wipe-clean flexicover with metallic corner-guards, this practical manual withstands heavy-duty use indoors and out. Protect against viruses and pandemics. Learn about antibiotics, CPR, and the CORRECT way to wear a safety mask. Everyday items to the rescue. Instructions on how superglue can treat wounds, how bleach can disinfect almost anything and how duct tape is one of the greatest survival tools in existence. Self Defence. Expert tips on how to throw a power punch, defend against home invasion and how to exploit the brutal efficiency of Krav Maga Prepare for when the grid goes down. Should the power, internet or phone system go down, learn how you can provide warmth, shelter and security to your family and friends. Expert Advice. Joseph Pred is one of America’s leading safety and security experts and is fully certified by DEMO, OHSA and POST. Together with the expert editors of Outdoor Life magazine, Joseph has created the modern blueprint on how to protect your family and community in an increasingly dangerous modern world.

The basis of adequate prepping is being prepared for both common and dire events that may occur under the worst of all possible circumstances. These circumstances might include the breakdown in normal emergency support services (such as calling 911), the lack of an ability to obtain additional supplies, and the probability that you will not be able to rely on anyone but members of your immediate group or yourself. Prepping requires forethought with regard to food, water supplies, power, and protection – all areas of significant technical preparation. Self-reliant medical care is no exception. This book provides the basis of prevention, identification, and long-term management of survivable medical conditions and can be performed with minimal training. It helps you identify sources of materials you will need and should stock-pile, it discusses storage issues, and directs you to sources for more complex procedures that require advanced concepts of field-expedient techniques used by trained medical persons such as surgeons, anesthesiologists, dentists, or midwifes and obstetricians.

First volume in Process's new Self-Reliance series, which provides tools for self-sufficiency and personal protection at a time when extreme weather, terrorist attacks and economic uncertainty have become the new realities of 21st century life. Aton Edwards, the author of this first volume, is the executive director of the New York City-based nonprofit organisation International Preparedness Network (IPN). This guidebook provides information and techniques that can help mitigate the effects of disaster, whatever the cause.

Do you have what it takes to save the day? Can you keep your cool in a crisis, ensure your own survival, and protect your home and family no matter what? Don't worry, we've got you covered. Be a Survivor This newly revised and updated manual is packed with life-saving resources. Easy-to-follow tips, step-by-step illustrations, and simple, effective, real-world strategies cover essential pandemic health and safety guidelines and much, much more-everything from hurricanes to blizzards, car troubles to floods to angry raccoons. Prepare for Anything As the saying goes, fortune favors the prepared-and this book is packed with the tools and skills, the checklists and drills you need to prepare for the worst, and perform at your best no matter what happens. Pitch In In the aftermath of a major disaster, it's a great feeling to be able to help out friends, neighbors, and the larger community. Whether you want to lead a search-and-rescue team or stay home with a victory garden, this book is packed with inspiration for not just surviving but thriving. Outdoor Life brings its millions of readers the best in outdoor recreation and survival topics through their magazine and website, as well as a popular survival blog, and a series of best-selling survival manuals. Book jacket.

Terrorist attacks. Natural disasters. Domestic crackdowns. Economic collapse. Riots. Wars. Disease. Starvation. What can you do when it all hits the fan? You can learn to be self-sufficient and survive without the system. **I've started to look at the world through apocalypse eyes.** So begins Neil Strauss's harrowing new book: his first full-length worksince the international bestseller The Game, and one of the most original-and provocative-narratives of the year. After the last few years of violence and terror, of ethnic and religious hatred, of tsunamis and hurricanes–and now of world financial meltdown–Strauss, like most of his generation, came to the sobering realization that, even in America, anything can happen. But rather than watch helplessly, he decided to do something about it. And so he spent three years traveling through a country that's lost its sense of safety, equipping himself with the tools necessary to save himself and his loved ones from an uncertain future. With the same quick wit and eye for cultural trends that marked The Game, The Dirt, and How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, Emergency traces Neil's white-knuckled journey through today's heart of darkness, as he sets out to move his life offshore, test his skills in the wild, and remake himself as a gun-toting, plane-flying, government-defying survivor. It's a tale of paranoid fantasies and crippling doubts, of shady lawyers and dangerous cult leaders, of billionaire gun nuts and survivalist superheroes, of weirdos, heroes, and ordinary citizens going off the grid. It's one man's story of a dangerous world–and how to stay alive in it. Before the next disaster strikes, you're going to want to read this book. And you'll want to do everything it suggests. Because tomorrow doesn't come with a guarantee...