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

Name: Outdoor Medical Emergency Handbook: First Aid for Travelers, Backpackers, Adventurers
Author: Dr. Spike Briggs, Campbell Mackenzie
ISBN: 9781554076017

Author Dr. Spike Briggs, Campbell Mackenzie

Publisher Firefly Books

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Book Details

Author(s) Dr. Spike Briggs, Campbell Mackenzie

Publisher Firefly Books

ISBN / ASIN 1554076013

ISBN-13 9781554076017

Sales Rank #528,660

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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.