How can one remove a bullet with minimal medical supplies?


Posted May 10th, 2009 by admin 3 Comments »
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Pants McTrousers asked:


For reasons that I would rather not go into, going to a hospital is not an option. I have an incredibly wide array of knives several pairs of needle nose pliers. I have gauze, medical tape, needles and thread, magnets, alcohol, peroxide, bleach, hypodermic needles and powerful painkillers. I have some rough idea of how stitch myself up, but I’d better get the thing out first. The wound is to my left shoulder. I still have full range of motion and my bones seem to be intact. I’m still bleeding, so I sooner is better than later.
Hypothetical situation by the way…

Can you use hair from the tail of a horse to sew up a wound?


Posted March 3rd, 2009 by admin 4 Comments »
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A Dull Man asked:


Picture this, you are on a horse, in the middle of no where, and you have someone or a horse that has a cut and needs some stiches. I was told that you could use a hair from a horse’s tail to sew up a cut when there is no medical supplies to do the job. Has this ever happened?

How exactly would a nurse with only basic medical supplies treat a collapsed lung?


Posted January 22nd, 2009 by admin 6 Comments »
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matt asked:


Let’s say the nurse had access to basic medical supplies, like a scalpel and a chest tube (the kind of supplies you’d find at a clinic but not at a hospital), but no respirator or chest xray machine. How would a nurse deal with a collapsed lung?