Protocols, Gear, and Doctrine
Clinical updates, CoTCCC guidance, product reviews, and field reports for tactical medicine professionals. Curated by medical SMEs and veterans.
Shop Tactical GearDecompression sickness and arterial gas embolism are the two dive injuries most likely to kill or permanently disable a diver on the surface interval. This is the primary-source field guide to what boat captains, divemasters, and first responders should do...
Read Article →SPEMS 2026 formalized what leading services have been doing for two years: ketamine replaces etomidate as the primary RSI induction...
Anaphylaxis in the Field (2026): Epinephrine First, Airway Second - A No-BS Guide
Ground EMS blood programs doubled from 5% (2023) to 10% (2025). Here’s the practical playbook: indications, cold chain, calcium, TXA,...
On December 18, 2025, the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine completed a risk review of Mantel Technologies' canine freeze-dried plasma...
A clear, field-ready interpretation of the latest Stop the Bleed guidance on improvised tourniquets—what works, what fails, and what you...
Vibrio vulnificus kills 1 in 5 patients it infects; Aeromonas hydrophila causes necrotizing fasciitis from a freshwater scratch; Mycobacterium marinum...
Jellyfish sting first aid in 2026: when to use hot water, when vinegar can make it worse, and how to...
"Amoxicillin is amoxicillin." It's the most-repeated argument in the prepper community for stocking pet-store and aquarium antibiotics as a contingency...
A no‑BS 2026 guide for responders and prepared families: tick prevention, removal, symptom timelines, doxycycline prophylaxis, when to test, and...
A no-BS breakdown of the ILCOR 2026 CoSTR first aid and BLS takeaways, turned into a field checklist.
A no-BS 2026 playbook for law enforcement: when rapid transport beats on-scene medicine for penetrating trauma, what care actually matters...
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