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  • Bleeding Wound Management, Pt. 1

    3 May 2022 | Joseph Alton MD
    Bleeding Wound Management, Pt. 1

    In a destabilized society, traumatic wounds may be commonplace is scenarios where there is a [...]

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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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    Safety Plans for Places Of Worship

    30 Dec 2019 | Joseph Alton MD
    Safety Plans for Places Of Worship

    Do Churches Need "Safety Ministries"? (This is a topic I've written about before, but bears [...]

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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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    Video: Tampons As Bandages

    23 Sep 2019 | Joseph Alton MD
    Video: Tampons As Bandages

    TACTICAL TAMPONS? Total blood volume absorbed by a light tampon. Super-absorbent: maybe three [...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: Insomnia, Turmeric, "Tactical" Tampons

    21 Sep 2019 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: Insomnia, Turmeric, &quote;Tactical&quote; Tampons

    Just back from a trip to the United Kingdom, Amy Alton ARNP and Joe Alton MD discuss some topics [...]

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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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    Re-Thinking School Safety

    21 May 2018 | Joseph Alton MD
    Re-Thinking School Safety

    RE-THINKING SCHOOL SAFETY A high school in Sante Fe, Texas was the scene of a mass murder recently,[...]

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    What is Courage?

    27 Feb 2018 | Joseph Alton MD
    What is Courage?

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

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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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    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: 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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    Video: Making Dakin's Solution, Part 2

    25 Jul 2017 | Joseph Alton MD

    Video: Making Dakin's Solution, Pt. 2 In this video (part 2 of 2), Amy Alton ARNP, aka Nurse Amy, [...]

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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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    To Close or Not to Close a Wound

    29 May 2017 | Joseph Alton MD
    To Close or Not to Close a Wound

    To Close or Not to Close a Wound? When a laceration occurs, our body’s natural armor is breached [...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: John Steinbaugh of Xstat, Wound Packing, Obesity

    30 Apr 2017 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: John Steinbaugh of Xstat, Wound Packing, Obesity

    Packing a Bleeding Wound In this episode of The Survival Medicine Hour with Joe Alton, MD and Amy [...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: Larry Keilberg of SelfDefenseFund, Diabetes, More

    25 Sep 2016 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: Larry Keilberg of SelfDefenseFund, Diabetes, More

    Legal Self Defense (pictured: Amy's Gunshot Kit) Survival Medicine Hour, September 23, 2016, with[...]

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Survival Medicine Hour: Bleeding, Herbal Teas, Zika update, more

    31 Jan 2016 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: Bleeding, Herbal Teas, Zika update, more

    Bleeding wound Would you have the materials and knowledge to stop heavy bleeding if you were [...]

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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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    Skin Glue in Survival

    30 Sep 2015 | Joseph Alton MD
    Skin Glue in Survival

    There are many ways to skin a cat, but how many ways are there to close a cat’s skin? Pretty much,[...]

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    Survival Medicine Hour: Amputation, Insomnia, more

    27 Sep 2015 | Joseph Alton MD
    Survival Medicine Hour: Amputation, Insomnia, more

    What if you were the medic in a long-term survival scenario and came upon an injury that won't get [...]

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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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    Ballistic Trauma and Body Armor, by J. Nash

    27 Aug 2015 | Joseph Alton MD
    Ballistic Trauma and Body Armor, by J. Nash

    We are committed to supporting promising writers in the field of survival, and today we publish an [...]

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