DITCH MEDICINE: THE VIDEO SERIES (DVD, NTSC/U.S. standard)

Volume 1: Emergency Intravenous Therapy

by Hugh Coffee

Here best-selling author and emergency medicine expert Hugh Coffee gives you the detailed, step-by-step instruction you need to save lives in a crisis. He explains in easy-to-understand layman's terms the critical role IV therapy plays in emergency medicine and teaches you every detail of selecting, administering and troubleshooting IVs. Through graphic demonstrations on live patients, he teaches you all the basics of IV therapy as well as lesser-known emergency procedures such as the insertion and use of gastronasal tubes, IV administration through venous cutdown and improvising medical equipment under survival or battlefield conditions. Until you're prepared for ditch medicine, you're not prepared. For academic study only. Color, approx. 80 min. total.