Preparation: The Key to Dealing with an Emergency
As I regularly explain to our students in our wilderness survival and medicine courses, one doesn’t need to be an Army Ranger or a medical professional to benefit from these types of emergency training. After all, whether it’s a mountain top, a state park, a roadside accident, or a burning building, each of us may still at any moment be called upon to protect ourselves or the lives of others from some threat. Then, thereafter, we may need to live with the consequences of our action or inaction — Or, heck, perhaps we won’t live.
At the moment of truth, it really doesn’t matter so much the size of your backpack, the fancy equipment in it, or your general professional training (I’ve heard of a group cardiologists who froze when a colleague collapsed of a cardiac arrest during a conference). Rather it is your head and heart that most matters.
So what will help your head and heart best deal with any emergency? Preparation.
Out of this, then, let me share with you this article on the topic that I just recently read in the BBC:
