Outdoor Medical Emergency Handbook: First Aid for Travelers, Backpackers, Adventurers
- ISBN-10
- 1554076013
- ISBN-13
- 9781554076017
- Category
- Travel / Reference
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Firefly Books
- Authors
- Spike Briggs, Campbell Mackenzie
Description
The essential guide to emergency medical procedures away from home.
The Outdoor Medical Emergency Handbook provides easy-to-follow advice on how to prevent, treat and care for illnesses and injuries while outdoors or traveling. Using accurate drawings and a step-by-step format, the authors describe how to effectively assess a situation and what actions to take.
The book covers:
- Planning and pre-departure tasks, expeditions with children, examining a casualty, medical kit design
- Resuscitation ABCs, loss of consciousness, heart attack, diabetic emergencies, choking
- High altitude sickness, hypothermia, dehydration, animals and insects, drowning
- Wounds and bleeding, neck and spinal injuries, abdominal injuries, fractures, treating pain
- Neurological and psychological disorders, infectious diseases, overdoses, poisoning
- Emergency chest decompression, injections
With its at-a-glance design, pack-ready format and waterproof cover, the Outdoor Medical Emergency Handbook is essential equipment for anyone traveling, whether camping with the family or making a solo assault on the Himalayas.
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- 2016-02-01
- 240 pages
- Paperback
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