A Simple Guide To Emergency Tips And Improvised Health Care

by Kenneth Kee

Overview

This book describes Emergency Tips and Improvised Healthcare which is seen practiced in some of my patients in my Family Clinic.

I have been writing medical articles for my blog: http://kennethkee.blogspot.com (A Simple Guide to Medical Disorder) for the benefit of my patients since 2007.
My purpose in writing these simple guides was for the health education of my patients.
This book is also about one of my favorite topic: emergency care and improvisation of medical and health care.
As a First Class Boy Scout previously (equivalent to Eagle Scout in USA) I used to make use of my uniform to improvise uses for emergency care.
The scarf that we wear around our neck is used to bandage wounds or as a sling for dislocated shoulder or fracture.
It can also be used to as a tourniquet.
The staff which we used to carry to hike through rough terrains is used to fight off dogs or animals during our hiking expeditions.
It is also used to form a tent with the poncho that we carry during rainy weather.
It can be broken into 2 pieces to tie around a fracture bone.
Together with another staff from another scout and 2 scarves around the 2 staffs we can use it as an improvised carrier to carry the injured person.
The lanyard is useful as a rope while the whistle can be used for emergency alarms.
The scout knife can be used to cut ropes, used for cut food for eating or as an all purpose tool.
Of course now the Swiss knife is more useful.
Even the stockings that we wear can be used as bandages for tying wounds.
The scout belt can be used as an all purpose leather carrier.
The leather can be used for sharpening knives and the buckle can used to open the caps of bottles.
I have truly learned much about innovations and improvisations as a Boy Scout and have incorporated in my improvised health care.
It is impossible to write about all the improvisations of the many doctors in this small book.

Emergency Tips

Whether it is a minor situation or something more severe, first aid knowledge will give you the confidence to act!
You could be the difference between life and death!

First do no harm, help all that you can and do not help beyond your ability.
The first-aider should call ambulance until he or she know someone has heard and called ambulance or go for help

It is not what goes in the ears, but what is between the ears that matters.
The best medical instruments are the hands, fingers, and brain,
They seldom break, they are hard to misplace, they can be upgraded continuously, and frequently invent new solution.

I have always believed that that improvising the medical instruments and medicines are important ways of improving our treatment of patients.
In my clinic I used to have large paper funnels which were the precursor to the modern stethoscope to use to hear some children’s lungs and heart beat because they feel less intimidated than the medical stethoscope than a paper funnel.
A pen torch with a front funnel piece with magnifying glass can be used as a cheap auroscope or can be used for the nose to examine the nose when the expensive auroscope is damaged or waiting for a replacement light bulb
A spoon can be used for eating as well as medical uses.
It can be hit against glasses containing different levels of water to test the pitch of hearing loss.
A spoon that is washed thoroughly and bent at an angle can be used as a tongue depressor or laryngoscope using an attached torch to look into the mouth or larynx.
The humble clothes hanger can be cut and bent to make forceps.

TABLE OF CONTENT
Introduction
Chapter 1 Emergency Tips
Chapter 2 Improvising Healthcare Instruments and Medicines
Chapter 3 Sterilization of Water, Instruments and Medical Records
Chapter 4 Improvised Injection for Trigeminal Neuralgia relief
Chapter 5 Improvised Health Care
Chapter 6 Improvised Emergency Care
Chapter 7 Reported Cases of Improvised Emergency Treatment
Chapter 8 Grandmother’s Home Remedies
Epilogue

Product Details

BN ID:	2940163299447
Publisher:	Kenneth Kee
Publication date:	08/03/2019
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	906 KB

About the Author

Medical doctor since 1972. Started Kee Clinic in 1974 at 15 Holland Dr #03-102, relocated to 36 Holland Dr #01-10 in 2009. Did my M.Sc (Health Management ) in 1991 and Ph.D (Healthcare Administration) in 1993. Dr Kenneth Kee is still working as a family doctor at the age of 70. However he has reduced his consultation hours to 3 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the afternoon. He first started writing free blogs on medical disorders seen in the clinic in 2007 on http://kennethkee.blogspot.com. His purpose in writing these simple guides was for the health education of his patients which is also his dissertation for his Ph.D (Healthcare Administration). He then wrote an autobiography account of his journey as a medical student to family doctor on his other blog http://afamilydoctorstale.blogspot.com This autobiography account “A Family Doctor’s Tale” was combined with his early “A Simple Guide to Medical Disorders” into a new Wordpress Blog “A Family Doctor’s Tale” on http://ken-med.com. From which many free articles from the blog was taken and put together into 1000 eBooks. He apologized for typos and spelling mistakes in his earlier books. He will endeavor to improve the writing in futures. Some people have complained that the simple guides are too simple. For their information they are made simple in order to educate the patients. The later books go into more details of medical disorders. He has published 1000 eBooks on various subjects on health, 1 autobiography of his medical journey, another on the autobiography of a Cancer survivor, 2 children stories and one how to study for his nephew and grand-daughter. The purpose of these simple guides is to educate patient on health disorders and not meant as textbooks. He does not do any night duty since 2000 ever since Dr Tan had his second stroke. His clinic is now relocated to the Buona Vista Community Centre. The 2 units of his original clinic are being demolished to make way for a new Shopping Mall. He is now doing some blogging and internet surfing (bulletin boards since the 1980's) starting with the Apple computer and going to PC. The entire PC is upgraded by himself from XT to the present Pentium duo core. The present Intel i7 CPU is out of reach at the moment because the CPU is still expensive. He is also into DIY changing his own toilet cistern and other electric appliance. His hunger for knowledge has not abated and he is a lifelong learner. The children have all grown up and there are 2 grandchildren who are even more technically advanced than the grandfather where mobile phones are concerned. This book is taken from some of the many articles in his blog (now with 740 posts) A Family Doctor’s Tale. Dr Kee is the author of: "A Family Doctor's Tale" "Life Lessons Learned From The Study And Practice Of Medicine" "Case Notes From A Family Doctor"