Books-Medical-Wilderness & Outdoors

Wilderness Medicine, 6th: Beyond First Aid
by William W. Forgey M.D.

  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 fully revised and updated, 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.

The Field Guide of Wilderness & Rescue Medicine
by Jim Morrissey

  The Wilderness Medical Associates Field Guide is the perfect companion for wilderness travelers and recreationalists, outdoor professionals, and rescue specialists. The guide contains a huge list of topics covering the major medical emergencies you may encounter when dialing 911 is not an option. Topics include: patient assessment, common medical problems and their treatment, basic and advanced life support guidelines, spine injury assessment, wound care, dislocation reduction, improvised litters and much, much more. The information is presented in a user-friendly format with charts, diagrams, bullets, and tables. Printed on waterproof and tearproof paper, this Field Guide is truly a piece of gear to be included with your outdoor and/or rescue equipment.

Medicine for the Outdoors: The Essential Guide to First Aid and Medical Emergency, 5th Edition
by Paul S. Auerbach

  Since 1986, Medicine for the Outdoors has been hailed as the definitive take-along manual on the subject. Packed with step-by-step instructions, how-to explanations, and practical approaches to outdoor and wilderness emergencies, it tells you the best ways to respond to just about any medical problem when help is miles or days away. Author Paul S. Auerbach, MD, MS, FACEP, FAWM, is recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on wilderness medicine. This 5th edition features major updates to bring you the latest on emerging infectious diseases...the most current drug and dosage information...an increased emphasis on making do with the materials at hand...and much more. Logically organized, easy to reference, and simple to understand, Medicine for the Outdoors may literally save your life. When you're venturing into mountains, deserts, forests, jungles, or out to sea, it belongs in your duffel or backpack!

  * Provides the most diverse and comprehensive coverage of medical conditions related to the outdoors.
  * Offers logical and complete explanations of every topic.
   * Includes numerous drawings and instructions to enhance your understanding of the descriptive material.
   * Contains recommendations for injury and illness prevention.
   * Features a comprehensive index that helps you locate answers quickly.

   * Offers an increased emphasis on making do with the materials at hand (like using a fanny pack as a cervical collar).
   Presents the latest guidance on dangerous infections like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), avian flu, and West Nile virus.
   * Offers current and accurate drug and dosage information via careful updates throughout.
   *Provides new safety recommendations on avalanches, forest fires, bear attacks, and more.
   *Demonstrates how to apply various bandages and splints with the aid of brand-new drawings.

SAS Survival Guide: How to Survive in the Wild, on Land or Sea (New Edition)
by John 'Lofty' Wiseman

  Includes new case studies and survival scenarios.

The experts’ survival techniques, based on John ‘Lofty’ Wiseman’s 26 years in the SAS.

Practical, easy-to-follow advice with diagrams and color illustrations.