Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine

Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine
ISBN-10
0323597556
ISBN-13
9780323597555
Category
Medical
Pages
1040
Language
English
Published
2019-02
Publisher
Elsevier Health Sciences
Authors
Paul S. Auerbach, Luanne Freer

Description

An authoritative guide to the full range of medical and emergency situations that occur in non-traditional settings. All chapters are thoroughly up to date, including new information on travel medicine, medications, immunizations, and field treatment of common conditions. Step-by-step explanations from wilderness medicine experts cover the clinical presentation and treatment of a full range of wilderness emergencies and show you how to improvise with available materials. Comprehensive coverage includes dive medicine and water-related emergencies, mountain medicine and wilderness survival, global humanitarian relief and disaster medicine, high-altitude medicine, pain management, and much more. Line drawings and color plates help you quickly and accurately identify skin manifestations, plants, poisonous mushrooms, snakes, insects, and more. Useful appendices address everything from environment-specific situations to lists of essential supplies, medicines, and many additional topics of care. -- Publisher

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