Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine: Expert Consult - Online

Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine: Expert Consult - Online and Print
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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. Auerbachâ€™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 treatmentâ€•emphasizing ways of improvising care with whatever materials you have available. Itâ€™s small enough to be carried in a carâ€™s glove compartment or in your backpackâ€•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 drawingsâ€•along with a section of color platesâ€•that aid in the identification of skin rashes, plants, snakes, insects, and more.
- Provides Signs and Symptoms and Treatment sections in most chaptersâ€•combined with bulleted lists and text boxesâ€•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, malariaâ€•and moreâ€•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 chaptersâ€•ensuring that you have the latest knowledge at your fingertips.
Country USA
Brand Mosby
Manufacturer Mosby
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781416046981
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Mosby
Manufacturer	Mosby
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781416046981
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine: Expert Consult - Online and Print