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

Author Dr. Spike Briggs, Campbell Mackenzie
Publisher Firefly Books
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PublisherFirefly Books
ISBN / ASIN1554076013
ISBN-139781554076017
Sales Rank528,660
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸

Description

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.