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Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine - based on Dr. Auerbach's critically acclaimed text Wilderness Medicine - offers fast-access solutions to all of the medical situations that can occur in non-traditional settings. From backpack to kayak, or on any mobile device, this indispensable, compact survival guide is detailed enough to cover the clinical presentation and treatment of a full range of wilderness emergencies! Meet a full-range of emergency situations with the utmost effectiveness. Appendices address everything from environment-specific situations to lists of essential supplies, medicines, and many additional topics of care. Compare what you are seeing with line drawings and color plates to quickly and accurately identify skin manifestations, plants, poisonous mushrooms, snakes, spiders, insects, etc. Rapidly retrieve and comprehend wilderness survival information with the aid of an easily accessible format featuring "Signs and Symptoms" and "Treatment" sections in most chapters - combined with bulleted lists and text boxes. Improvise with available materials so you can diagnose and treat a myriad of medical situations with step-by-step how-to explanations and the latest practical advice from wilderness medicine experts. Get guidance on the go with online access to the fully searchable text at Expert Consult, plus bonus downloadable files for Survival Kits. Get the wilderness medicine skills you need now with new chapters on foot problems and care, global humanitarian relief and disaster medicine, Leave No Trace principles, and high-altitude medicine, as well as lists to prepare a variety of survival kits for different settings and patient populations. Improve your competency and readiness with thoroughly revised chapters on shock, maxillofacial trauma, malaria, improvised litters and carries, aeromedical transport, pain management, life-threatening emergencies, and allergic reactions.… (more)
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Ch. 1. High-Altitude Medicine -- Ch. 2. Avalanche Safety and Rescue -- Ch. 3. Hypothermia -- Ch. 4. Frostbite and Trench Foot -- Ch. 5. Heat Illness -- Ch. 6. Burns and Smoke Inhalation -- Ch. 7. Solar Radiation and Photoprotection -- Ch. 8. Lightning Injury -- Ch. 9. Trauma Emergencies: Assessment and Stabilization -- Ch. 10. Shock -- Ch. 11. Head Injury -- Ch. 12. Emergency Airway Management -- Ch. 13. Emergency Oxygen Administration -- Ch. 14. Chest Trauma -- Ch. 15. Intraabdominal Injury -- Ch. 16. Maxillofacial Trauma -- Ch. 17. Orthopedic Injury, Splints, and Slings -- Ch. 18. Wounds (Lacerations and Abrasions) and Dressings -- Ch. 19. Firearm and Arrow Injuries -- Ch. 20. Fishhook Injury -- Ch. 21. Sprains and Strains -- Ch. 22. Blisters and Hot Spots -- Ch. 23. Pain Management -- Ch. 24. Life-Threatening Emergencies (Rescue Breathing/CPR/Choking) -- Ch. 25. Allergic Reaction -- Ch. 26. Cardiopulmonary Emergencies -- Ch. 27. Neurologic Emergencies -- Ch. 28. Diabetic Emergencies -- Ch. 29. Genitourinary Tract Disorders -- Ch. 30. Wilderness Eye Emergencies -- Ch. 31. Dental Emergencies -- Ch. 32. Snake and Reptile Bites -- Ch. 33. Bites and Stings from Arthropods -- Ch. 34. Plant-Induced Dermatitis -- Ch. 35. Mushroom Toxicity -- Ch. 36. Animal Attacks -- Ch. 37. Zoonoses -- Ch. 38. Diarrhea and Constipation -- Ch. 39. Field Water Disinfection -- Ch. 40. Travel-Acquired Illnesses -- Ch. 41. Immunizations for Travel -- Ch. 42. Cold Water Immersion and Near Drowning -- Ch. 43. Scuba Diving-Related Disorders -- Ch. 44. Injuries from Nonvenomous Aquatic Animals -- Ch. 45. Envenomation by Marine Life -- Ch. 46. Seafood Toxidromes -- Ch. 47. Aquatic Skin Disorders -- Ch. 48. Search and Rescue -- Ch. 49. Improvised Litters and Carries -- Ch. 50. Aeromedical Transport -- Ch. 51. Survival -- Ch. 52. Knots -- Ch. 53. Wilderness Medical Kits -- Ch. 54. Children in the Wilderness -- Ch. 55. Women in the Wilderness -- App. A. Avalanche Resources -- App. B. Glasgow Coma Scale -- App. C. Contingency Supplies for Wilderness Travel -- App. D. Repair Supplies for Wilderness Travel -- App. E. Priority First-Aid Equipment -- App. F. Antibiotics -- App. G. Wilderness Eye Kit -- App. H. Recommended Oral Antibiotics for Prophylaxis of Domestic Animal and Human Bite Wounds -- App. I. Therapy for Parasitic Infections -- App. J. Sample Basic Wilderness Survival Kit -- App. K. Sample Winter Survival Kit -- App. L. Sample Desert Survival Kit -- App. M. Vehicle Cold Weather Survival Kit -- App. N. Pediatric Wilderness Medical Kit: Basic Supplies -- App. O. Medicines Specific to Women's Health -- App. P. Drug Stability Information.