Wilderness Medicine: Beyond First Aid
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You and your group on the adventure of a lifetime, surrounded by wilderness, far from civilization. Someone gets sick or hurt.
What do you do?
Dr. William Forgey’s Wilderness Medicine: Beyond First Aid 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.
With this comprehensive, illustrated text, you’ll 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.
With this book in hand, you can recognize, assess, and treat many kinds of medical emergencies.
Softcover; 256 pages; charts and illustrations
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