Packed with step-by-step instructions, how-to explanations, and practical approaches to outdoor and wilderness emergencies, this newly updated guide explains the best ways to respond to just about any medical problem when help is miles or days away. Logically organized, "Medicine for the Outdoors" may literally save a life.
This comprehensive guide is a must for anyone heading into the wilderness.
Provides medical information useful in a wilderness setting.
"A guide to handling emergency situations in the wilderness. Provides a guide to preparation, emergency response and assessment, aftercare and rescue procedures."--
This field-guide handbook, based upon Dr. Auerbach's text Wilderness Medicine, 4th Edition, focuses on information that is needed when medical situations present in the wilderness setting. Perfect for the physician...
Signs and Symptoms The knee may be swollen, and crackling sounds can often be heard when the knee is flexed and straightened. ... Partial and total tears of a meniscus often occur at the same time that ligaments are torn ...
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Management of Wilderness and Environmental Emergencies
Grounded in the collective wisdom of hundreds of instructors, rescue personnel and medical practitioners, this text explores medical problems in a broad wilderness context—including cold injuries, altitude illness, diving and lightening ...
... study of injuries from large animals falls from horses resulted in extensive craniofacial injury, whereas bull and cow injuries from trampling and kicks resulted in a predominance of torso injuries (Norwood, McAuley, et al., 2000).