Street Safety hosts resources for protesters.

Best first aid guides for protesters

• Online: first aid chapter of the New Where There Is No Doctor. Street medics helped write it.
  • Be careful: There are some advanced interventions. When in doubt, get help by taking someone to a hospital, urgent care, or family physician.
• Print: Backcountry First Aid and Extended Care (buy it from a local bookstore) by Buck Tilton.
  • Be careful: There are some advanced interventions. When in doubt, get help by taking someone to a hospital, urgent care, or family physician.

Other health guides for use in protest

• Minor Emergencies (buy it from a local bookstore) by Buttaravoli and Leffler is an excellent (but expensive) urgent-care reference, which includes assessment of common police-caused injuries, such as handcuff neuropathy.
  • Be careful: This book is for physicians and contains advanced interventions. When in doubt, get help by taking someone to a hospital, urgent care, or family physician.
  • An earlier edition is online: Common Simple Emergencies.
• Where There Is No Doctor (buy it from a local bookstore) is a general health book with a great index and very useful differential guides, especially for cough (p. 168), back pain (p. 173), infection (p. 88), and skin problems (p. 193-198)
  • Be careful: This book was written for global health. Minimally-trained people might suspect conditions that are highly unlikely in their area.

Guides to use with caution

• Riot Medicine (by a Trotskyist/antifa affiliated Turkish-European street medic) (pdf) covers similar territory to Buck Tilton's Backcountry First Aid. Some of the best information is in parts I (Organize) and IV (Tactics).
  • Be careful: This book promotes machismo.
  • Be careful: There are some advanced interventions. When in doubt, get help by taking someone to a hospital, urgent care, or family physician.
  • Be careful: This book is extremely anti-herbal medicine and anti-acupuncture.
  • Be careful: this book recommends using tampons for menstruation during protest, which may cause toxic shock syndrome if left in for too long (ie. during long action or arrest). Pads are a safer alternative.
• Street Medic Handbook for Occupy Chicago and the mobilization against the 2012 NATO summit (pdf) and Chicago Action Medical Street Medic Handbook (Dec 2013) (pdf) were written by Chicago street medics and are widely shared online.
  • Much of the material is these guides has been simplified, focused, and in some ways updated, for example on this website.
  • The resources at the top of this page teach first aid more effectively.
  • Like Riot Medicine, these are interesting and educational reads, as long as they are supplemented with better first aid guides.

Source

Link curation and opinions by A. Grace Keller. Used with permission. CC BY-SA.