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  • The Vehicle In Mass Casualty Events

    22 Nov 2021 | Joseph Alton MD
    The Vehicle In Mass Casualty Events

    A driver rammed into a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, killing at least five people [...]

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    The 4th "R"

    6 May 2021 | Joseph Alton MD
    The 4th &quote;R&quote;

    May is Stop The Bleed Month! When you go to school you learn the three "R"s: Reading', 'Riting',[...]

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    Active Shooters In The New Normal

    25 Mar 2021 | Joseph Alton MD
    Active Shooters In The New Normal

    On March 23rd, 2021, a man thought to be mentally disturbed entered a Boulder, Colorado grocery[...]

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    Survival Medicine Podcast: Tourniquet Principles

    31 Aug 2020 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Podcast: Tourniquet Principles

    Bleeding wound Recently, Dr. Alton was asked to write an article on tourniquets for the highly[...]

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    Civil Unrest Safety

    2 Jun 2020 | Joseph Alton MD
    Civil Unrest Safety

    As a Free Speech advocate, I support the people’s right to protest and make their opinions heard.[...]

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    Survival Medicine Podcast: The Health Worker in Harm's Way

    2 Dec 2019 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Podcast: The Health Worker in Harm's Way

    Survival Medicine Podcast: New Format! Get your casualty to cover asap! After a brief hiatus,[...]

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    The Medic's First Priority

    29 Nov 2019 | Joseph Alton MD
    The Medic's First Priority

    The Medic’s First Priority The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that, In the Democratic[...]

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    Video: How To Use The C.A.T. Gen 7 Tourniquet

    24 Jun 2019 | Joseph Alton MD
    Video: How To Use The C.A.T. Gen 7 Tourniquet

    Last year, Amy Alton ARNP (aka Nurse Amy) stepped in front of the camera to demonstrate the proper [...]

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    #351 Survival Medicine Hour: Cholera, Drug Storage, Shooters, More

    8 Jun 2019 | Joseph Alton MD
    #351 Survival Medicine Hour: Cholera, Drug Storage, Shooters, More

    #351 SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST Dehydration from Cholera can be life-threatening You might [...]

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    Video: How To Use The SWAT Tourniquet

    26 May 2019 | Joseph Alton MD
    Video: How To Use The SWAT Tourniquet

    VIDEO: THE SWAT TOURNIQUET SWAT tourniquets can be used on children if needed In this video, [...]

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    Video: New Tourniquets Approved By The TCCC

    15 May 2019 | Joseph Alton MD
    Video: New Tourniquets Approved By The TCCC

    VIDEO: NEW TCCC TOURNIQUETS (companion video to a recent article) Tourniquets to control bleeding [...]

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    Video: SAM-XT Extremity Tourniquet Demo with Nurse Amy

    14 May 2019 | Joseph Alton MD
    Video: SAM-XT Extremity Tourniquet Demo with Nurse Amy

    SAM-XT TOURNIQUET DEMO The SAM-XT Extremity Tourniquet Hemorrhage control saves lives in [...]

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    New Tourniquet Additions To TCCC Guidelines

    13 May 2019 | Joseph Alton MD
    New Tourniquet Additions To TCCC Guidelines

    TOURNIQUETS APPROVED BY THE CoTCCC SAM-XT Tourniquet newly added to TCCC list   [...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: Treating Fractures, Tourniquets, Face Masks, More

    11 May 2019 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: Treating Fractures, Tourniquets, Face Masks, More

    SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST SOFT-T tourniquet in place The use of tourniquets to control [...]

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    Health Workers In Areas Of Conflict

    29 Apr 2019 | Joseph Alton MD
    Health Workers In Areas Of Conflict

    Health Care Workers in Areas of Armed Conflict I’ve written in the past about the difficulties of[...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: TCCC Core Principles, Preparedness and "Normal" People, More

    6 Apr 2019 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: TCCC Core Principles, Preparedness and &quote;Normal&quote; People, More

    SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST You may have read some of my articles where I talk about the [...]

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    Video: TCCC Core Principles: Phases of Care/MARCH/PAWS

    6 Apr 2019 | Joseph Alton MD
    Video: TCCC Core Principles: Phases of Care/MARCH/PAWS

    VIDEO: TCCC CORE PRINCIPLES Trauma kits from Doom and Bloom You may have heard me reference TCCC [...]

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    Important Aspects of Tactical Combat Casualty Care

    4 Apr 2019 | Joseph Alton MD
    Important Aspects of Tactical Combat Casualty Care

    IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF TACTICAL COMBAT CASUALTY CARE You may have heard me reference something called[...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: How Many Antibiotics, Shooter Events, Hangnails, More

    16 Feb 2019 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: How Many Antibiotics, Shooter Events, Hangnails, More

    SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST A gunman opened fire inside an Aurora manufacturing plant on [...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: Animal Bites, Active Shooters, More

    9 Nov 2018 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: Animal Bites, Active Shooters, More

    SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST A gunman opened fire on a crowd at a bar in Thousand Oaks, [...]

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    Active Shooter Events

    8 Nov 2018 | Joseph Alton MD
    Active Shooter Events

    ACTIVE SHOOTER EVENTS Shootings in "Safe" areas A 28-year-old gunman opened fire on a crowd, [...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: School Safety Solutions, Fungal Infections, More

    1 Jun 2018 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: School Safety Solutions, Fungal Infections, More

    SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST #390 Recently, Joe Alton MD wrote about school safety solutions in[...]

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    What is Courage?

    27 Feb 2018 | Joseph Alton MD

    WHAT IS COURAGE? In the Parkland high school shooting in South Florida, just a few miles from my [...]

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    Video: Amputation in Survival Settings

    25 Feb 2018 | Joseph Alton MD
    Video: Amputation in Survival Settings

    One of the worst injuries that can occur in a disaster or other off-grid setting is the traumatic [...]

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    Can We End Active Shooter Events?

    15 Feb 2018 | Joseph Alton MD
    Can We End Active Shooter Events?

      Can we end active shooter events? active shooters part of the New Normal? A mentally[...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: Active Shooters, Respiratory Infections, More

    10 Nov 2017 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: Active Shooters, Respiratory Infections, More

    Survival Medicine Hour: Active Shooters, Respiratory Infections Curbing the active shooterThe [...]

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    6 Ways To Curb Active Shooters

    10 Nov 2017 | Joseph Alton MD
    6 Ways To Curb Active Shooters

    6 Ways to Curb Active Shooters Attacks Can we end active shooter events? The recent shootings [...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: Disaster Supplies, Vehicular Terror, Pain Relief

    3 Nov 2017 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: Disaster Supplies, Vehicular Terror, Pain Relief

    Survival Medicine Hour #362 The NYC attack, which occurred very close to our daughter's workplace, [...]

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    Vehicular Terror: The Easiest Blueprint To Create Mayhem

    1 Nov 2017 | Joseph Alton MD
    Vehicular Terror: The Easiest Blueprint To Create Mayhem

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    Survival Medicine Hour: Off-Grid Pregnancy Care, Cloves, Bleeding Kits

    7 Oct 2017 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: Off-Grid Pregnancy Care, Cloves, Bleeding Kits

    The Survival Medicine Hour Podcast #357 off-grid pregnancy care What if you had [...]

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    Why Do Active Shooters Succeed?

    6 Oct 2017 | Joseph Alton MD
    Why Do Active Shooters Succeed?

    Why Do Active Shooters "Succeed"? You might associate armed attacks with wars or survival [...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: Church Safety, Rehydration Salts, Pregnancy Issues Off Grid

    2 Oct 2017 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: Church Safety, Rehydration Salts, Pregnancy Issues Off Grid

    Joe and Amy Alton are concerned about natural disasters, but man-made mass casualties can be [...]

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    Can Churches Be Made Safe Again?

    28 Sep 2017 | Joseph Alton MD

    Can Churches Be Made Safe Again? (Update: Since the writing of this article, there was a horrific [...]

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    Video: Is It Time To Teach First Aid In Schools?

    27 Sep 2017 | Joseph Alton MD

    Given the history of violence in our schools and churches lately, it's become clear that something [...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: Earthquake, Birthing Supplies, Hemorrhage, More

    22 Sep 2017 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: Earthquake, Birthing Supplies, Hemorrhage, More

    Survival Medicine Hour #355 What would you have done if you were in Mexico City during the recent [...]

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    Video: How To Apply A SOFT-T Tourniquet

    5 Sep 2017 | Joseph Alton MD

    Bleeding wound The Special Operations Forces Tactical Tourniquet (SOFT-T) is one of the most [...]

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    Video: 10 Critical Principles of Tourniquet Use

    30 Jul 2017 | Joseph Alton MD
    Video: 10 Critical Principles of Tourniquet Use

    Video: 10 Critical Principles of Tourniquet Use In this video, Nurse Amy steps in front of the [...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: Nailbed Injuries, Wound Closure, Mass Casualties

    5 Jun 2017 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: Nailbed Injuries, Wound Closure,  Mass Casualties

    American Survival Hour #340 In this episode of the Survival Medicine Hour, Joe and Amy [...]

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    Mass Casualty Triage Basics

    23 May 2017 | Joseph Alton MD

    Given the horrific events surrounding the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, UK, we have come to [...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: Blood Clotters, Wound Closure, More

    21 Mar 2017 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: Blood Clotters, Wound Closure, More

    In this episode of the Survival Medicine Hour, Joe and Amy Alton, aka Dr. Bones and Nurse Amy [...]

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    13 Tips on Surviving a Protest

    6 Feb 2017 | Joseph Alton MD

    As a Free Speech advocate, I support the people’s right to protest and make their opinions heard. [...]

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    Video: Vehicular Terror

    3 Jan 2017 | Joseph Alton MD

    In this companion video to a recent article, Joe Alton, MD discusses the wave of terror events using[...]

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    Surviving Vehicular Terrorism

    19 Dec 2016 | Joseph Alton MD

    CNN reports that a man in Berlin used a truck to plow through a group of people at a Christmas [...]

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    Lessons That Could Save Your Life in a Terror Event

    20 Sep 2016 | Joseph Alton MD

    I’ve written quite a bit lately about shooting and terror events, but recent events highlight the [...]

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    Video: The OODA Loop of Situational Awareness

    13 Sep 2016 | Joseph Alton MD

    In this companion video to a previous article, Joe Alton, MD, aka Dr. Bones, discusses a fighter [...]

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    How a Fighter Pilot's Strategy Could Save Your Life: The OODA Loop

    31 Aug 2016 | Joseph Alton MD
    How a Fighter Pilot's Strategy Could Save Your Life: The OODA Loop

    image by pixabay.com It's pretty clear in these uncertain times that there's a New Normal out [...]

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    Situational Awareness Could Save Your Life

    14 Jul 2016 | Joseph Alton MD
    Situational Awareness Could Save Your Life

    On France’s equivalent of Independence Day, a large truck plowed through a large crowd in the [...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: Tom Martin of APN, Shooter Issues, Summer Germs, Natural Remedies

    8 Jul 2016 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: Tom Martin of APN, Shooter Issues, Summer Germs, Natural Remedies

    Summer Germs In this episode of the Survival Medicine Hour with Joe and Amy Alton, aka Dr. Bones [...]

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    Active Shooters: When Violence Is The Answer

    2 Jul 2016 | Joseph Alton MD
    Active Shooters: When Violence Is The Answer

    As a physician, my focus is how to heal wounds rather than how to cause wounds. A terrorist, [...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: Expert Charley Hogwood, Cinnamon, Antibiotics, Alligators

    20 Jun 2016 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: Expert Charley Hogwood, Cinnamon, Antibiotics, Alligators

    Charley Hogwood, Survival Group expert In this topic-packed episode of the Survival Medicine Hour [...]

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    Orlando Shootings: More To Come, What To Do

    15 Jun 2016 | Joseph Alton MD
    Orlando Shootings: More To Come, What To Do

    Active Shooters: What to Do In the sad aftermath of the Orlando shootings that killed or injured [...]

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    Announcing The NEW Third Edition Survival Medicine Handbook

    7 Jun 2016 | Joseph Alton MD
    Announcing The NEW Third Edition Survival Medicine Handbook

    The Survival Medicine Handbook 2016 Third Edition Well, we’ve returned from an awesome week in [...]

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    VIDEO: A Kit to Manage Hemorrhage in Action

    20 Apr 2016 | Joseph Alton MD
    VIDEO: A Kit to Manage Hemorrhage in Action

    Would you be able to stop severe hemorrhage in the aftermath of a terror attack? In Amy Alton, [...]

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    Video: Active Shooter Bleeding Kit, Part 2

    29 Mar 2016 | Joseph Alton MD
    Video: Active Shooter Bleeding Kit, Part 2

    Jackie Clay and Amy Alton at the Self-Reliance Expo In part 2 of a series on hemorrhagic wounds [...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: The New 3 R's, Ear Infections, 5 Second Rule, More

    27 Mar 2016 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: The New 3 R's, Ear Infections, 5 Second Rule, More

    Given the rash of bombings and shooting in recent years, should first aid 101 be taught in schools [...]

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    The New 3 R's: Reading, 'Riting, Reducing Hemorrhage?

    25 Mar 2016 | Joseph Alton MD
    The New 3 R's: Reading, 'Riting, Reducing Hemorrhage?

    Given the spate of bombings and shootings throughout the world, most recently in Brussels but also[...]

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    Video: Making a Kit to Manage Hemorrhage

    23 Mar 2016 | Joseph Alton MD
    Video: Making a Kit to Manage Hemorrhage

    In her latest video, Nurse Amy shows off her recently designed Bleeding Control Kit for active [...]

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    Video: Mass Casualty Triage, Part 3

    21 Mar 2016 | Joseph Alton MD

    Joe Alton, MD's YouTube series on mass casualty triage ends with a review of the victims he posted [...]

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    Video: Mass Casualty Triage, Part 2

    19 Mar 2016 | Joseph Alton MD

    In this part of Joe Alton, MD's series on Mass Casualty triage, Dr. Bones discusses the RPMs of [...]

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    Guest Post: Top Ten Things To Know About Ballistic Protection

    28 Jan 2016 | Joseph Alton MD
    Guest Post: Top Ten Things To Know About Ballistic Protection

    Covert body armor can be worn under clothes (DR BONES SAYS: From time to time, we post articles [...]

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    Video: The Medic Under Fire

    22 Jan 2016 | Joseph Alton MD
    Video: The Medic Under Fire

    In Joe Alton, MD's latest video, he examines the issue of providing medical care in hostile [...]

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    The SWAT Tourniquet

    18 Jan 2016 | Joseph Alton MD
    The SWAT Tourniquet

    In these dangerous times, any trip to the mall (or anywhere there are crowds) could be a ticket to [...]

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    The Active Shooter: Staying Alive

    7 Dec 2015 | Joseph Alton MD
    The Active Shooter: Staying Alive

    It’s hard to read the news without seeing reports of the latest shooting by terrorists or the [...]

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    Celox and Quikclot to Stop Bleeding

    24 Sep 2015 | Joseph Alton MD

    No matter what survival scenario you envision, few come without a real risk of major trauma, and [...]

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    How to Choose a Tourniquet

    8 Sep 2015 | Joseph Alton MD
    How to Choose a Tourniquet

    If you took a first aid course a few years ago, you might have learned all about the dangers of [...]

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    Survival Medicine Podcast: Gunshot Wounds, Fish Antibiotics, Medical Barter

    25 Jul 2015 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Podcast: Gunshot Wounds, Fish Antibiotics, Medical Barter

    In this episode of the Doom and Bloom(tm) Survival Medicine Hour: Joe Alton, MD and Amy Alton, [...]

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