[PDF] Wilderness Medicine Management Of Wilderness And Environmental Emergencies eBook

Author : Eric A. Weiss
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
Release : 2017-04-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0323528376

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Drs. Eric Weiss and Douglas Sward have assembled an expert team of authors on the topic of Wilderness and Environmental Medicine. Article topics include: Advances in the Prevention and Treatment of High Altitude Illness; Out-of-hospital Evaluation and Treatment of Accidental Hypothermia; Arthropod Envenomation in North America; North American Snake Envenomation; Cutting Edge Management of Frostbite;Updates in Decompression Illness; Marine Envenomation; Is There a Doctor on Board: Medical Emergencies at 40,000 Feet; Translating Battlefield Medicine to Wilderness Medicine; The Application of Point-of-Care Ultrasound to Austere Environments; Wilderness EMS Systems; Preparing for International Travel & Global Medical Care; and Medical-legal Issues in Expedition and Wilderness Medicine.

Author : Paul S. Auerbach
Publisher :
Page : 1506 pages
File Size : 29,47 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Emergencies
ISBN : 9780801670442

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The definitive source for health care professionals dealing with wilderness and environmentally related illnesses and injuries, this guide provides specific therapeutic guidelines and reviews interactions between people and the environment.

Author : Paul S. Auerbach
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 41,25 MB
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0323597564

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Based on Dr. Auerbach’s renowned Wilderness Medicine text, Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine, 5th Edition, is your portable, authoritative guide to the full range of medical and emergency situations that occur in non-traditional settings. Useful for experienced physicians as well as advanced practice providers, this unique medical guide covers an indispensable range of topics in a well-illustrated, highly condensed format – in print or on any mobile device – for quick access anytime, anywhere. An easy-access presentation ensures rapid retrieval and comprehension of wilderness medical information, with "Signs and Symptoms" and "Treatment" sections, bulleted lists, and quick-reference text boxes in every chapter. 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 an 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.

Author : Paul S. Auerbach
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 28,73 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0323068138

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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.

Author : Gregory H. Bledsoe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 42,45 MB
Release : 2008-11-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521868734

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"With an increase in visits to remote and dangerous locations around the world, the number of serious and fatal injuries and illnesses associated with these expeditions has markedly increased. Thus, so has the need for medical personnel trained specifically to handle the health risks that are faced when far removed from professional care resources." "Expedition and Wilderness Medicine covers everything a prospective field physician or medical consultant needs to prepare for when beginning an expedition. Divided into three parts "Expedition Planning," "Expeditions in Unique Environments," and "Illness and Injuries on Expeditions," - this unique book covers everything that the expedition physician needs to know."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Paul S. Auerbach
Publisher : Mosby
Page : pages
File Size : 11,36 MB
Release : 2007-03-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780323076821

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Manage any medical emergency you encounter in the great outdoors! Every day, more and more people are venturing into the wilderness and extreme environments...and many are unprepared for the dangers that come with these adventures. Whether these victims are stranded on mountain tops, lost in the desert, trapped deep in the woods, or injured far out at sea, this indispensable resource equips rescuers and health care professionals to diagnose and treat the full range of emergencies and health problems encountered in the wilderness!Prepares you to handle everything from frostbite to infection by marine microbes, not to mention other diverse injuries, bites, stings, poisonous plant exposures, animal attacks, and natural disasters. Introduces health care professionals to essential aspects of search and rescue.Helps you to improvise using available materials.Presents brand-new guidance on volcanic eruptions, extreme sports, splints and slings, wilderness cardiology, living off the land, aerospace medicine, mental health in the wilderness, tactical combat casualty care, and much more. Discusses how to meet the needs of specific patient populations such as children, women, elders, and the disabled. Offers guidelines for pain management, and addresses considerations for persons with chronic medical conditions. Equips you to make smart decisions about gear, navigation, nutrition, and survival. Moves all bibliographical references onto a bonus DVD in order to fit more content inside the book without making it too unwieldy.

Author : Cheyenne Falat
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,22 MB
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0443129606

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In this issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics, guest editors Drs. C Cheyenne Falat and Stephanie Lareau bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Environmental and Wilderness Medicine. Emergency medicine physicians must be equipped with the knowledge to effectively care for patients who push the limits of this world and are exposed to the extremes of temperature, altitude, terrain, physical activity, flora and fauna—and even outer space. This issue addresses each of these topics with guidance from top experts in the field. Contains 15 relevant, practice-oriented topics including altitude related conditions; dive related illness and injury; desert medicine; endurance sporting events; tick borne diseases; climate change; space medicine; and more. Provides in-depth clinical reviews on environmental and wilderness medicine, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.