Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine 3e

Completely revised and updated the new edition of this portable guide offers fast-access solutions to all of the medical situations that can occur in non-traditional settings. Based on Dr. Auerbach's critically acclaimed text Wilderness Medicine 5th Edition this handbook is packed with how-to step-by-step explanations and the latest practical advice on diagnosis and treatment-emphasizing ways of improvising care with whatever materials you have available. It's small enough to be carried in a car's glove compartment or in your backpack-yet detailed enough to cover the clinical presentation and treatment of a full range of emergencies!

• Offers appendices that address everything from environment-specific situations to lists of essential supplies medicines and many additional topics of care enabling you to meet a full-range of emergency situations with the utmost effectiveness.
  
• Includes line drawings-along with a section of color plates-that aid in the identification of skin rashes plants snakes insects and more.
  
• Provides Signs and Symptoms and Treatment sections in most chapters-combined with bulleted lists and text boxes-that facilitate quick and easy retrieval of information.
  
• Presents full chapter coverage of both animal attacks and zoonoses for handling life-threatening situations.
  
• Features peerless guidance in a portable format for consultation anywhere from the office setting to the open outdoors.

• Features a new appendix on jungle travel and survival and new chapters on forest fires bandaging and taping techniques mental health hydration and dehydration malaria-and more-equipping you to handle any emergency you might encounter in the wilderness.
  
• Includes more tips for improvisational care (eg how to make a rigid litter using skis poles snowshoes canoe paddles or tree branches) to help you respond to wilderness and nontraditional emergencies with the materials that you have on hand.
  
• Presents thorough revisions to all previously existing chapters-ensuring that you have the latest knowledge at your fingertips.

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NOLS Wilderness Medicine: 4th Edition (NOLS Library)

"One of the finest first aid books I've seen." -- Mel Otten M.D. Wilderness Medical Society

Make informed decisions about medical treatment and urgency of transport

Essential items and suggestions for packing a standard first aid kit

Two new chapters on common non-urgent medical problems and legal issues

This revised edition of NOLS Wilderness First Aid reflects the changing field of wilderness medicine. Designed as a field textbook for the NOLS wilderness first aid curriculum it helps train outdoor leaders to prevent recognize and treat common medical problems and to stabilize a severely ill or injured patient for evacuation. A vital resource for outdoor enthusiasts this book covers fundamental topics in first aid--patient assessment shock soft tissue injury burns fractures and dislocations and chest head and abdominal injury. It explains how to handle environmental problems posed by heat cold water altitude and poisonous plants and animals. Also discussed are issues related to expedition medicine as well as leadership teamwork and communication for rescue groups. While risk can be minimized through good judgment skills and experience being prepared for emergencies in the wild is an essential component of good outdoor leadership.

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Wilderness Medicine Beyond First Aid 5th Edition

You and your group are on the adventure of a lifetime far from civilization surrounded by wilderness. Someone gets hurt or sick. What do you do? With Dr. William Forgey's comprehensive Wilderness Medicine: Beyond First Aid in hand you can recognize assess and treat many kinds of medical emergencies. This illustrated text is essential reading for anyone from trip leaders guides and search and rescue groups to EMTs paramedics and physicians who must provide immediate care when access to a medical facility is difficult or impossible. Learn how to survey assess and stabilize the victim and the medical situation what questions to ask to gain necessary vital information how to manage physical symptoms as well as care for wounds and orthopedic injuries and much more.

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