Book

Wilderness medicine / [edited by] Paul S. Auerbach.

4th ed.

St. Louis : Mosby, ©2001.

xxiii, 1910 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

This updated reference prepares readers to manage medical emergencies caused by environmental encounters, including injury prevention and respect for natural environments. With explanations and practical advice, it covers emergencies such as altitude illness, burns, motion sickness, and problems caused by cold, heat, snakes, sharks, and marine microbes. Includes information on bear attacks, cave rescue, airway and eye emergencies, wilderness clothing, and much more.

Outdoor medical emergencies.

Mountaineering injuries.

Environmentally induced diseases.

Recreation.

Medical emergencies.

Auerbach, Paul S.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword -- The Modern History of Wilderness Medicine -- Mountain Medicine -- High-Altitude Medicine -- Avalanches -- Lightning Injuries -- Cold and Heat -- Thermoregulation -- Non-Freezing Cold Injuries -- Accidential Hypothermia -- Frostbite -- Immersion into Cold Water -- Polar Medicine -- Pathophysiology of Heat-Related Illnesses -- Clinical management of Heat-Related Illnesses -- Burns, Fire and Radiation -- Wildland Fires -- Dangers and Survival -- Emergency Care of the Burned Victim -- Exposure to Radiation from the Sun -- Injuries and Medical Interventions -- Injury Prevention -- Principles of Pain Management -- Emergency Airway Management -- Wilderness Trauma and Surgical Emergencies -- Improvisation in the Wilderness -- Hunting and Other Weapons Injuries -- Wilderness Orthopaedics -- The Eye in the Wilderness -- Wilderness Dentistry and Management of Facial Injuries -- Rescue and Survival -- Wilderness Emergency Medical Services and Response Systems -- Search and Rescue -- Litters and Carries -- Aeromedical Transport -- Survival in the Wilderness -- Jungle Travel and Survival -- White-water Medicine and Rescue -- Cave Rescue -- Animals, Insects, and Zoonoses -- Protection from Blood-Feeding Arthropods -- Tick-Borne Diseases -- Spider Bites -- Scorpion Envenomation -- North American Arthropod Envenomation and Parasitism -- Non-North American Arthropod Envenomation and Parasitism -- North American Reptile Bites -- Non-North American Reptile Bites -- Antivenins and Immunobiologicals -- Immunotherapeutics of Envenomation -- Bites and Injuries Inflicted by Domestic Animals -- Bites and Injuries Inflicted by Feral Animals -- Bear Behavior and Attacks -- Wilderness-Acquired Zoonoses -- Emergency Veterinary Medicine -- Plants -- Seasonal Allergies -- Plant-Induced Dermatitis -- Toxic Plant Ingestions -- Mushroom Toxicity -- Ethnobotany -- Plant-Derived Medical Therapy -- Food and Water -- Field Water Disinfection -- Infectious Diarrhea from Wilderness and Foreign Travel -- Nutrition, Malnutrition, and Starvation -- Seafood Toxidromes -- Seafood Allergies -- Marine Medicine -- Submersion Incidents -- Diving Medicine -- Emergency Oxygen Administration -- Principles of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy -- Injuries from Nonvenomous Aquatic Animals -- Envenomation by Aquatic Invertebrates -- Envenomation by Aquatic Vertebrates -- Aquatic Skin Disorders -- Survival at Sea -- Travel, Environmental Hazards, and Disasters -- Travel Medicine -- Non-North American Travel and Exotic Diseases -- Natural Disaster Management -- Natural and Human-Made Hazards -- Mitigation and Management Issues -- Equipment and Special Knowledge -- Wilderness Equipment and Medical Supplies -- Wilderness Clothing -- Lights, Lamps, Stoves, and Other Gear -- Ropes and Knot Tying -- Compass & Celestial Navigation -- Special Populations and Considerations -- Children in the Wilderness -- Women in the Wilderness -- Elders in the Wilderness -- Medical Liability and Wilderness Emergencies -- The Ethics of Wilderness Medicine -- The Changing Environment.

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