Ditch Medicine: Advanced Field Procedures for Emergencies: Amazon.ca: Hugh L. Coffee: Books

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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.

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Hugh 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.

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For the Pre-Hospital Care Provider (PHCP), mastery of small wound repair techniques is of great importance in a field setting. Read the first page

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3.0 out of 5 stars a recommendation for on these types of books, Oct 21 2008

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J-Rod "J-rod" (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ditch Medicine (Paperback)

After finding a few of these books listed here, I would like to suggest one thing:

Before trying the info out, get some kind of 1st Aid training!

at the very least, basic 1st aid. realize that techniques like CPR are constantly being updated and changed. I would recommend that a person have advanced 1st aid, CPR 'C' and other courses that are more geared towards people who have to provide 1st aid in places like Logging camps and sites that are over 3-4 hours travel from the nearest medical facility.

Nothing beats hands-on training, and these books could then be a companion to this.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Adequate but limited, July 23 2008

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Brian Phaneuf (Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ditch Medicine: Advanced Field Procedures for Emergencies (Paperback)

The book was quite informative, but it is a limited scope book. If all you need to know is the field institution of IVs and using SugarDyne...get it. The author would have better served the reader by making it a more assessment based book, rather than volume one of a nonexistent series. I have been practicing field medicine for 20+ years, and enoyed the writer's style.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Was in Africa with Author - A Great Combat Medic, April 28 2003

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Rob Krott "Rob Krott" (Iraq) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ditch Medicine: Advanced Field Procedures for Emergencies (Paperback)

Hugh "Doc" Coffee's book is in use by many SF medics and other folks who often go in harms way. Coffee gets right to the bottom line in dealing with the subject of field trauma first aid and "meatball surgery." He learned it the hard way during the guerrilla war in Guatemala -- patching up troops on hilltops where no doctor would go. I may be biased as he's a good friend and I was on a medical team in Kenya and the southern Sudan (Sudanese guerrilla war) with him, but anyone who is a combat medic or who may need to perform first aid in the third world needs to read this book. Coffee is a fount of knowledg on the subject and imparts it clearly and concisely to the reader. Amongst his legion of fans there's hundreds of us anxiously awaiting Ditch 2.
-- Rob Krott, Chief Foreign Correspondent, Soldier of Fortune magazine

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