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Libre Survival Manual for Android with offline in mind
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Mention the Guides of the International Association for Medical Assistance to Travellers #249

Open tassa-yoniso-manasi-karoto opened 2 years ago

tassa-yoniso-manasi-karoto commented 2 years ago

The (copyrighted) guides provided freely online by the IAMAT are well worth a mention as they are more detailed, trustworthy and up to date than the Medicine section of the manual https://www.iamat.org/general-resources

For instance for snake bites the SurvivalManual advise: "Use a constricting band between the wound and the heart." "Remove the poison as soon as possible by using a mechanical suction device."

This is explicitly discouraged as "useless and potentially harmful" (causes local tissue necrosis): https://www.iamat.org/how-to-prevent-snake-bites https://www.amazon.com/Sawyer-Products-B4-Extractor-Pump/product-reviews/B000AU9PEC

this last sentence about the mechanical suction device was removed in the 2018 version of the manual (#242 ) but the other one is still there. Reperfusion after several hours of blood restriction in a limb can result in a compartment syndrome which is a life-threatening condition that requires immediate surgery.

That's one example, there are probably others.