Wilderness Medicine, 5th: Beyond First Aid

Type

Book

Authors

William W. Forgey M.D.

ISBN 10

076270490X

ISBN 13

9780762704903

Tags

Safety & First Aid, Mountain Climbing, Instructional, Emergency Medical Services, Sports Medicine

Description

You and your group are on the adventure of a lifetime, far from civilization, surrounded by wilderness. Someone gets hurt or sick. What do you do? With Dr. William Forgey's comprehensive Wilderness Medicine: Beyond First Aid in hand, you can recognize, assess, and treat many kinds of medical emergencies. This illustrated text is essential reading for anyone from trip leaders, guides, and search and rescue groups to EMTs, paramedics, and physicians who must provide immediate care when access to a medical facility is difficult or impossible. Learn how to survey, assess, and stabilize the victim and the medical situation, what questions to ask to gain necessary vital information, how to manage physical symptoms as well as care for wounds and orthopedic injuries and much more. - from Amzon

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