The Complete First Aid Pocket Guide: Step-by-Step Treatment for All of Your Medical Emergencies Including • Heart Attack • Stroke • Food Poisoning ... • Shock • Anaphylaxis • Minor Wounds • Burns Paperback – November 13, 2018

This is an important, concise, and easily accessible reference which has a place in a well rounded first aid kit. I’m not a doctor or a paramedic, but I am Red Cross AED/CPR/First Aid Certified. This book contains a distilled, clear, pocket sized reference of what I learned, and was tested on, while being certified for the former. That said, don’t expect every single detail ever written about first aid in a field manual type book of this size, but do expect enough quality information to get the job done when the occasion warrants. Every sort of medical situation seems covered, from stuff that just happens sometimes like splinters and small cuts, to things that we hope don’t ever happen, such as heart attacks or emergency child deliveries. There won’t be glossy photographs of people looking unhappy about having various ailments as you might find in larger books with glossy paper, but when an illustration is necessary (e.g. to show the proper head/neck angle for mouth to mouth breathing) then such illustrations or diagrams are provided. Font size is fairly small; if I had to guess glyph (i.e. letter) height is about 3 mm. Still, the book is quite legible to my middle age eyes without magnification as the lines are, mercifully, double spaced. You may want a small head lamp on hand if you think you might be reading in low light conditions. Size of the entire book is also handily small; easily placed in a first aid bag if you’ve got a semi-serious sized kit. The cover is matte laminated flexible paperboard, and the leaf paper inside is bleached white and just a hair better than your standard paperback novel fare. Pages will not repel water if they get wet. I suggest placing this book in a plastic sandwich bag for a little protection, and, if you’re so inclined, applying a clear protective plastic contact paper jacket on the cover wouldn’t hurt anything either.

You should have and read this book. You never know when you might need the information.

Always helps to check how to refresh what you learned before. We do all forget.

This is a VERY comprehensive book - a bit more than I think I need. It’s 304 pages long - but well indexed. Even so, this is a bit large for a pocket book. It contains first aid advice for items I’d probably never come across - meningitis, and emergency childbirth, for example. There’s also a bit more discussion of the conditions for which first-aid response is being offered than I'd like. I wish they could edit it to bring it down to about 200- 250 pages. And I do wish they could have used color photos of illustrations (I know - more $$).What it does have - for many possible problems - is very good advice on how to treat the problem. It’s going in my automobile first aid kit - with the hope that I never have to get involved with emergency childbirth.

Great comfort to have this first aid book. Now I just need to read it.

This is a very small book which is a good thing because it will fit just about anywhere like a backpack or a BOB, that's bug out bag for those that do not know. It's filled with all kinds of useful medical information for an emergency situation. With what's going on right now in the world its like an insurance policy, better to have then to not. It's also good to have when camping out in the bush or being 100's of miles from the nearest medical facility. Recommended? Yes.

I bought this and a couple other like it to put with my hurricane kit. I realized that although I have the supplies I might need for basic medical care during an emergency to go along with a decent amount of CPR and first aid training, that these would come in handy. Both as a refresher or guide during a stressful situation and as a supplement to the training and experience I have. Its small, easy to carry around if you're hiking or traveling. It contains a lot of info in a small package but is easy to read and easy to locate the info you need quickly.

If you have a first aid kit in your car or home and haven't taken a first aid course this little book is invaluable. It doesn't take up much room in a first aid kit and can help immensely!!!!