2. If this is not possible, obtain a good first aid manual, study it, and keep it at home; or study the emergency medical instructions given in this chapter, and keep this handbook at home.
3. Obtain a good first aid kit, and keep your home medicine chest well stocked with supplies you may need in a time of emergency.
During an emergency
1. Try to get a doctor or nurse (or at least a person trained in first aid) to treat anyone who is injured or sick.
2. If no one better qualified is available, take charge yourself.
EMERGENCY CARE OF THE SICK AND INJURED
A nuclear attack on the United States would cause great numbers of casualties, and there would be fewer doctors, nurses and hospitals available to care for them. Even in areas where no nuclear weapons exploded, radioactive fallout could prevent doctors and nurses from reaching injured or sick persons for a considerable period of time.
People would have to help each other during the emergency. Those in a stocked public fallout shelter would have available the basic medical kit stored there, and perhaps one or more shelter occupants might be a doctor, nurse, or trained first-aider. But persons in a home shelter would have only the medical supplies available at home, and would have to depend on their own knowledge of first aid and emergency medical care.
