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I've long been fascinated by survival techniques in emergency situations and in things you can buy online to perform surgery.
I've had a long fascination with peoples survival in a situation like a post EMP attack on the U.S. where modern medical institutions, their resources, and knowledge are unavailable.
In that situation what surgical procedures could a layman successfully perform (assuming he had the knowledge and at least some of the required supplies).
My list so far:
1) extracting a tooth, obviously.
2) appendectomy, people have performed appendectomy's on themselves in the past so obviously this would be doable.
3) various biopsies. Surgeon Jeri Nielsen posted in Antarctica famously performed a biopsy on her breast back in the 1990s IIRC. Of course Nielsen was a surgeon and had many of the most important supplies she needed air dropped. Still thought I would mention it.
Also note Ferdinand DiMera (the great imposter) while pretending to be a surgeon aboard the Royal Canadian warship Cayuga operated on 16 badly injured soldiers during the Korean War and saved them all. Including a soldier with a bullet lodged near his heart. When DiMera (known as Doctor Cyr then) completed the thoracic surgery onlookers burst into applause.
Note that DiMera had no medical training whatsoever aside from memorizing the procedure from one of his manuals.
And anyone think of any other surgical procedures that a layman could successfully perform?
I've had a long fascination with peoples survival in a situation like a post EMP attack on the U.S. where modern medical institutions, their resources, and knowledge are unavailable.
In that situation what surgical procedures could a layman successfully perform (assuming he had the knowledge and at least some of the required supplies).
My list so far:
1) extracting a tooth, obviously.
2) appendectomy, people have performed appendectomy's on themselves in the past so obviously this would be doable.
3) various biopsies. Surgeon Jeri Nielsen posted in Antarctica famously performed a biopsy on her breast back in the 1990s IIRC. Of course Nielsen was a surgeon and had many of the most important supplies she needed air dropped. Still thought I would mention it.
Also note Ferdinand DiMera (the great imposter) while pretending to be a surgeon aboard the Royal Canadian warship Cayuga operated on 16 badly injured soldiers during the Korean War and saved them all. Including a soldier with a bullet lodged near his heart. When DiMera (known as Doctor Cyr then) completed the thoracic surgery onlookers burst into applause.
Note that DiMera had no medical training whatsoever aside from memorizing the procedure from one of his manuals.
And anyone think of any other surgical procedures that a layman could successfully perform?
