Wilderness Medicine, 5th Edition
Wilderness Medicine, 5th Edition Books
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Manage any medical emergency you encounter in the fantastic 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 obligatory resource equips rescuers and health care professionals to diagnose and handle 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 surrounded by the book without making it too unwieldy.
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I’m a doctor, and have been an outdoor enthusiast my whole life. This book is the “industry standard,” no question. The topics are covered exhaustively, with extensive references to back up the suggestions given. Want to know how to euthanize your pack horse? Want to know what really keeps the mosquitoes away? What to do for a snakebite, based on studies and not wives’ tales? How to handle your climbing companion on K2 when he/she gets altitude sickness? It’s all in there.
If I have any complaints they are 1) the price, though it’s understandable considering the size, limited sales, and width of this tome, and 2) its size. Unfortunately, you’d best read this puppy BEFORE you head out with your pack on your back, or get the Sherpas to schlep it up the hills for you, as it is also the largest book on my medical bookshelf.
That said, this is my favorite text, bar none.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a fantastic technical manual for administration wilderness emergencies for professionals. A more complete text, I have yet to see.
Rating: 4 / 5
Doctors have a hard enough time looking for the definative source for in rank that is current and right. Dr. Auerbach, initiator of Wilderness Medical Society, has updated this tome with a cast of experts from across the globe, in fields that range from water disinfection to acute mountain sickness. The detailed and well-referenced chapters are clear and informative, giving both matter-of-fact field-based treatment as well as care follow up care for the ER and primary care source. It is equally helpful for clinicians, researchers, and field-deployable medical providers in rural remote areas like paramedics, expedition docs, disaster relief personnel, military medics, and guides.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is the BEST single reference work for how to provide medical care for yourself and your family in the absence of a functioning health care system – which is what will exist after a massive earthquake, hurricane or pandemic. It was written as a wilderness guide but it is also a superb post disaster guide – when we we all be in the medical wilderness.
Rating: 5 / 5
It is no surprise that the Fifth Edition of this unique medical reference is better than ever. For those who are new to this authoritative tome, you will immediately notice how well it is organized to help those in an emergency effectively find the answers they need. The chapters cover Mountain Medicine, Cold and Heat, Burns, Fire and Radiation, Rescue and Survival, Injuries and Medical Intervention, Animals Insects and Zoonoses, Plants, Food and Water, Marine Medicine, Travel and Environmental Hazards, Equipment, Unique Populations (come forth correlated to children and the elderly) and the Wilderness.
Every theme is carefully clarified so the medical injuries surrounding the theme can be identified and understood in context and with greater detail. For example, to know how to rescue someone from an avalanche, the reader must know how avalanches are formed. The book also goes into detail on rescue equipment and their right use as well as proper self and organized rescues before discussing medical treatments for avalanche victims.
The bulk of the book consists of chapters regarding various injuries and conditions encompassing symptomology, description diagnostic techniques (tests and such) that can be employed, treatment options, and the range of expected prognoses–in a nutshell, what is the likely injury, how do we handle it, and what’s the outlook in terms of cure and survival.
A wealth of reliable, understandable in rank is readily accessible primarily targeting the medical professional but also for the lay person accompanied by very helpful illustrations.
The update is most welcome, as the area of wilderness medicine has grown significantly beyond rescue of mountain climbers to the do of medicine in situations of constrained resource, during times of catastrophe like 9/11 or Katrina and often in appalling conditions. This new edition also identifies new and better treatments of everything from high-altitude pulmonary and intellectual edema to heart stroke.
Rating: 5 / 5