Everyday updates: https://www.instagram.com/vakon/ – In the Buried City, everyone will meet many dangers. One of them is a trap. They have two basic features: they are SWIFT and they are deadly. Traps in the Buried city is extremely diverse, but most inexperienced adventurers end up on the most primitive. In order to avoid this requires careful attention to detail, like cracks in the walls and exposed floor slabs. One of the best solutions is to hire an experienced thief — these guys are usually well versed in this kind of… obstacles.
Day 2: DIVIDED group
Everyday updates: https://www.instagram.com/vakon/ – During the journey through the streets of the Buried City, there can happen a lot of surprises. Monsters, traps, landslips… Often you must to act quickly and make unusual decisions, just to stay alive. But what exactly you should not do – is to split up your group. Even, if at some moment you think that it may be the best solution… this is not so. Many of the inhabitants of these ancient places with the help of cunning and spells will try to divide you… and you will become their easy prey. Even if you have got quarreled – first you must get out on the surface and then you can go on all four sides, but in any case, do not separate on the trails of the Buried City. It has led to the deaths of a countless number of heroes and villains. – inspired by Justin Sweet & Vance Kovacs
Day 3: The POISON of greed
Everyday updates: https://www.instagram.com/vakon/ – In the depths of the Buried City, you can stumble upon hundreds of deadly poisons. From intricate traps to poisoned fangs and claws of the ancient inhabitants of the depths. But one of the most terrible poisons that can be found is the poison of greed. It can kill you in many different ways – from undetected traps in the form of a treasure hunt to the dagger in the back from the satellites, which do not want to share with your newfound wealth. Remember, no matter what you can found in the depths if you not able to bear it out…
****Please for the love of your chosen deity this is for writing and educational purposes only- I know its tempting but do not try any of this at home!!!****
Medical ether and industrial ether are basically the same.
Medical oxygen and industrial oxygen are also basically the same (industrial oxygen for welding is actually more pure than medical oxygen, but this doesn’t matter much).
Most drugs are completely effective (>90% of expected active drug) for at least 5 years after their “expiration” dates provided they are kept in their original, unopened packaging. Some drugs are completely effective for decades if kept in controlled conditions.
According to one study, that fact includes EpiPens.
In patients who have never chronically used opioids, a combination of 1,000mg acetaminophen (tylenol, paracetamol) and 400mg ibuprofen (motrin, advil) every 6 hours have been shown to be equivalent to the
standard starting dose of oxycodone/hydrocodone in treating acute musculoskeletal (breaks, strains, sprains, dislocations) pain.
Rotating these medications (giving the acetaminophen, waiting three hours, giving the ibuprofen, waiting 3 hours, giving the acetaminophen again, and so on) makes them more effective. This works pretty well any time you have more than 1 medication for the same thing.
Benadryl can be used as a local anesthetic if you can find (or make) a form of it that can be safely injected.
Nitrous oxide cartridges for artisan whipped cream dispensers (naturally found in an abandoned Starbucks in the aftermath of an apocalypse, or on Amazon) can provide up to 3 minutes of decent conscious anesthesia each (they need to be emptied into a whipped cream dispenser and given with 25-50% regular air or oxygen and breathed in order to work well).
Wound-wise, you don’t need saline or sterile water to clean an already dirty wound. If you would drink it, its safe for wound cleaning.
Speaking of that, you can make an irrigation syringe by poking a small hole in the top of a pop bottle filled with irrigation fluid (or tap water).
Many venoms can be at least partially degraded by soaking the bite site in very hot water.
You can make a spacer for an albuterol inhaler out of a 16oz pop bottle by cutting a hole in the bottom, placing the inhaler through it (with some space around it for air to get in), and breathing through the top.
A pressure cooker (stovetop or electronic) is basically just an autoclave re-purposed for food. Throw a shelf in there to sit over a small amount of water and you can quickly sterilize temperature/pressure resistant equipment like metal scalpels.
If you get the balance right, you can centrifuge something/blood with a hand drill by attaching a test tube to each side of the spinny part.
It seems counterintuitive because generally bacteria eat sugar, but raw honey works as well or better than most antibiotics when preventing/treating wound infection (the honey goes in the wound, btw, but eating it would still taste good).
Regular insulin does not actually need to be refrigerated unless its being stored for long periods. Even open, it will still last about a month at room temperature without significantly degrading.
IV is not the only form of rehydration. Oral rehydration is actually best, but you can infiltrate sterile IV fluids slowly into fat, or provide a very slow enema of tap water or even slightly brackish water that the body will absorb and utilize.
Smelling isopropyl alcohol or peppermint oil can help with nausea.
Fishing line is extremely similar to suture material. Dental floss is less so.
You could, theoretically, hook up as many as 4 people to the same ventilator as long as they all had relatively similar ventilation needs and they were all chemically paralyzed to the point where assist-control mode would be appropriate. Programmed tidal volume would be the total of all four patients.
You can re-locate a dislocated shoulder by having the person lay face down with the dislocated arm hanging off the side. Tie about 10-15lbs to it and let the weight slowly release the muscle and reduce the shoulder.
Most of these came from the book Improvised Medicine: Providing Care in Extreme Environments, By Kenneth V. Iserson.
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