Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine: Expert Consult - Online and Print - Softcover

Auerbach MD MS FACEP MFAWM FAAEM, Paul S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1416046984 ISBN 13: 9781416046981

Publisher: Mosby, 2008

Synopsis

Completely revised and updated, the new edition of this portable guide offers fast-access solutions to all of the medical situations that can occur in non-traditional settings. Based on Dr. Auerbach’s critically acclaimed text Wilderness Medicine, 5th Edition, this handbook is packed with how-to step-by-step explanations and the latest practical advice on diagnosis and treatment―emphasizing ways of improvising care with whatever materials you have available. It’s small enough to be carried in a car’s glove compartment or in your backpack―yet detailed enough to cover the clinical presentation and treatment of a full range of emergencies!

• Offers appendices that address everything from environment-specific situations to lists of essential supplies, medicines, and many additional topics of care, enabling you to meet a full-range of emergency situations with the utmost effectiveness.
• Includes line drawings―along with a section of color plates―that aid in the identification of skin rashes, plants, snakes, insects, and more.
• Provides Signs and Symptoms and Treatment sections in most chapters―combined with bulleted lists and text boxes―that facilitate quick and easy retrieval of information.
• Presents full chapter coverage of both animal attacks and zoonoses for handling life-threatening situations.
• Features peerless guidance in a portable format for consultation anywhere from the office setting to the open outdoors.

• Features a new appendix on jungle travel and survival, and new chapters on forest fires, bandaging and taping techniques, mental health, hydration and dehydration, malaria―and more―equipping you to handle any emergency you might encounter in the wilderness.
• Includes more tips for improvisational care (eg, how to make a rigid litter using skis, poles, snowshoes, canoe paddles, or tree branches) to help you respond to wilderness and nontraditional emergencies with the materials that you have on hand.
• Presents thorough revisions to all previously existing chapters―ensuring that you have the latest knowledge at your fingertips.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Paul S. Auerbach, FACEP, FAWM, is the Redlich Family Professor of Surgery in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is the world's leading expert on wilderness medicine and a prolific author. He is the Editor of Wilderness Medicine, and author of Medicine for the Outdoors and Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine.

Dr. Auerbach holds his MD from Duke and completed his internship at Dartmouth and residency at UCLA. He is certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine. He has been recognized as a Hero of Emergency Medicine by the American College of Emergency Physicians and received the New Orleans Grand Isle Award for Science from the Academy of Underwater Arts and Sciences, the Founders Award from the Wilderness Medical Society, and the Outstanding Contribution in Education Award from the American College of Emergency Physicians, among others. Dr. Auerbach has served as a volunteer physician in Haiti, Nepal, and Guatemala.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mosby
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1416046984
• ISBN 13: 9781416046981
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 944