Outdoor Medical Emergency Handbook: First Aid for Travelers, Backpackers, Adventurers - Softcover

Briggs, Dr. Spike; Mackenzie, Campbell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554076013 ISBN 13: 9781554076017

Publisher: Firefly Books, 2010

Synopsis

The essential guide to emergency medical procedures away from home.

The Outdoor Medical Emergency Handbook provides easy-to-follow advice on how to prevent, treat and care for illnesses and injuries while outdoors or traveling. Using accurate drawings and a step-by-step format, the authors describe how to effectively assess a situation and what actions to take.

The book covers:

Planning and pre-departure tasks, expeditions with children, examining a casualty, medical kit design

Resuscitation ABCs, loss of consciousness, heart attack, diabetic emergencies, choking

High altitude sickness, hypothermia, dehydration, animals and insects, drowning

Wounds and bleeding, neck and spinal injuries, abdominal injuries, fractures, treating pain

Neurological and psychological disorders, infectious diseases, overdoses, poisoning

Emergency chest decompression, injections

With its at-a-glance design, pack-ready format and waterproof cover, the Outdoor Medical Emergency Handbook is essential equipment for anyone traveling, whether camping with the family or making a solo assault on the Himalayas.

About this title

About the Author

Spike Briggs, BSc, FRCA, is a specialist in intensive care medicine, an advisor on medical support for ocean yacht races and an instructor of advanced life support. Campbell Mackenzie, RD, FRCP, was a surgeon commander in the Royal Navy and Royal Naval Reserve. He is now an instructor and examiner for the Royal Yachting Association First Aid Course.

Edition details

• Publisher: Firefly Books
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1554076013
• ISBN 13: 9781554076017
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240