First aid in Preparedness

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GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

First Aid Skills Every Adult In Your House Should Have

The ambulance is coming. It just isn't here yet. These are the things a grown adult should be able to do in the gap.

The tourniquet everyone should carry, and how to use it

How to Spot Hypothermia and Heat Exhaustion Early

The dangerous cold isn't 10 degrees, and the dangerous heat isn't the number on the thermometer. Learn what to watch for in yourself and the people with you.

GuideSkillsCal Brennan3 Oct 20267 min

Four emergencies, and the instinct that makes each one worse

Bleeding, burns, choking and sprains each come with one obvious move that's wrong. Learn the right one now, while nobody's hurt.

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GuideWoodworkingWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

The first ten minutes after something hits your eye

Flush it, shield it, or drive. Knowing which one applies to a metal chip, a chemical splash or a wire bristle is the whole game.

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Country Bro6 min read

Cool him first, then drive him to the hospital

Heat exhaustion and heat stroke look similar for about a minute. Then one of them starts killing him, and the tell is how he talks.

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GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

What to do when someone has a seizure in front of you

Five minutes is the number that matters, the floor is your friend, and nothing ever goes in the mouth.

GuideSkillsCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

How To Use An AED And Where To Find One First

The machine tells you what to do and won't shock a heart that doesn't need it. The hard part is knowing which wall it's hanging on.

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GuideCountry BroCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Pull the tick straight out and watch the spot for a month

Fine-tipped tweezers, steady pressure, no matches and no petroleum jelly. Then know exactly which rash and which symptoms send you to a doctor.

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Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next fortnight.

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Naloxone is over the counter now and you should own some

Slow breathing, pinpoint pupils, gray lips. What an opioid overdose actually looks like, and what to do in the minutes that decide it.

GuideSkillsCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

How to stop serious bleeding before the ambulance arrives

Pressure, packing and a tourniquet, in the order you'd actually use them, plus the mistakes that cost people the five minutes they had.

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GuideGroomingDean Shaw23 Sept 20264 min

The silver spray that earned a spot next to my razor

GermProof is a chelated-silver spray built for skin that takes a beating. Here's what it is, what the company says it does, and how to actually use it from shave to scrape.

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GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

The outer thigh, three seconds, and then you call 911

An epinephrine auto-injector is the easiest emergency device you'll ever use, and almost everybody hesitates too long with it.

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GuideSkillsCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

Choking rescue for an adult, a child and a baby

The hands go in three different places depending on who's choking, and the one that works on a grown man will hurt an infant.

GuideMomsNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

A Boy Mom's Guide to Noise, Scrapes and Big Hearts

How to spend their energy before it spends you, what actually belongs in the first aid drawer, and why your son talks more when you aren't looking at him.