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Wilderness Medicine

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Description
Wilderness Medicine remains the single most important source for information and advice for anyone who may encounter medical emergencies in nontraditional settings. The completely revised fifth edition includes 19 completely new chapters covering such topics as volcanic eruptions, wilderness cardiology, living off the land, and many more. Packed with practical information that stresses improvisational medicine, the book is a must-have for anyone with an interest in the outdoors.
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9780323032285
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Data sheet

Publication date
2007
Issue number
5
Cover
hard cover
Pages count
2336
Dimensions (mm)
216 x 276
Weight (g)
4835
  • MOUNTAIN MEDICINE

    1. High Altitude Medicine
    2. Avalanches
    3. Lightning Injuries

    COLD AND HEAT

    4. Thermoregulation
    5. Accidental Hypothermia
    6. Immersion in Cold Water
    7. Nonfreezing Cold-Induced Injuries
    8. Frostbite
    9. Polar Medicine
    10. Pathophysiology of Heat-Related Illnesses
    11. Clinical Management of Heat-Related Illnesses

    BURNS, FIRE AND RADIATION

    12. Wildland Fires: Dangers and Survival
    13. Emergency Care of the Burned Victim
    14. Exposure to Radiation from the Sun
    15. Volcanic Eruptions

    INJURIES AND MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS

    16. Injury Prevention
    17. Principles of Pain Management
    18. Bandaging and Taping
    19. Emergency Airway Management
    20. Wilderness Trauma, Surgical Emergencies, and Wound Management
    21. Improvisation in the Wilderness
    22. Hunting and Other Weapons Injuries
    23. Tactical Medicine and Combat Casualty Care
    24. Wilderness Orthopaedics
    25. The Eye in the Wilderness
    26. Wilderness Dentistry and Management of Facial Injuries
    27. Wilderness Cardiology
    28. Wilderness Neurology
    29. Chronic Diseases and Wilderness Activities
    30. Mental Health in the Wilderness

    RESCUE AND SURVIVAL

    31. Wilderness Emergency Medical Services and Response Systems
    32. Search and Rescue
    33. Technical Rescue in the Wilderness Environment
    34. Litters and Carries
    35. Aeromedical Transport
    36. Essential of Wilderness Survival
    37. Jungle Travel and Survival
    38. Desert Travel and Survival
    39. Whitewater Medicine and Rescue
    40. Caving and Cave Rescue

    ANIMALS, INSECTS, AND ZOONOSES

    41. Protection from Blood-Feeding Arthropods
    42. Mosquitoes and Mosquito-Borne Diseases
    43. Malaria
    44. Arthropod Envenomation and Parasitism
    45. Tick-Borne Diseases
    46. Spider Bites
    47. Scorpion Envenomation
    48. Bites by Venomous Reptiles in the Americas
    49. Bites by Venomous Snakes outside the Americas
    50. Antivenoms and Immunobiologicals: Immunotherapeutics of Envenomation
    51. Bites and Injuries Inflicted by Wild and Domestic Animals
    52. Bear Behavior and Attacks
    53. Wilderness-Acquired Zoonoses
    54. Rabies
    55. Emergency Veterinary Medicine

    PLANTS

    56. Seasonal and Acute Allergic Reactions
    57. Plant-Induced Dermatitis
    58. Toxic Plant Ingestions
    59. Toxic Mushroom Ingestions
    60. Ethnobotany: Plant-Derived Medical Therapy

    FOOD AND WATER

    61. Field Water Disinfection
    62. Infectious Diarrhea from Wilderness and Foreign Travel
    63. Nutrition, Malnutrition, and Starvation
    64. Dehydration, Rehydration, and Hyperhydration
    65. Living off the Land
    66. Seafood Toxidromes
    67. Seafood Allergies

    MARINE MEDICINE

    68. Submersion Incidents
    69. Emergency Oxygen Administration
    70. Diving Medicine
    71. Hyperbaric Medicine
    72. Injuries from Nonvenomous Aquatic Animals
    73. Envenomation by Aquatic Invertebrates
    74. Envenomation by Aquatic Vertebrates
    75. Aquatic Skin Disorders
    76. Safety and Survival at Sea

    TRAVEL, ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS, AND DISASTERS

    77. Travel Medicine
    78. Non-North American Travel and Exotic Diseases
    79. Natural Disaster Management
    80. Natural and Human-Made Hazards: Disaster Risk Management Issues

    EQUIPMENT AND SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE

    81. Wilderness Preparation, Equipment and Medical Supplies
    82. Outdoor Clothing for Wilderness Professionals
    83. Nonmedical Backcountry Equipment for Wilderness Professionals
    84. Ropes and Knot Tying
    85. Wilderness Navigation Techniques

    SPECIAL POPULATIONS AND CONSIDERATIONS

    86. Exercise, Conditioning, and Performance
    87. Children in the Wilderness
    88. Women in the Wilderness
    89. Elders in the Wilderness
    90. Persons with Special Needs and Disabilities
    91. Wilderness and Endurance Events
    92. Wilderness Medicine Education
    93. Medical Liability and Wilderness Emergencies
    94. The Ethics of Wilderness Medicine

    THE WILDERNESS

    95. The Changing Environment
    96. Wilderness Management and Preservation
    97. Aerospace Medicine
    Appendix: Drug Storage and Stability
    Index

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