Overview
Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine - based on Dr. Auerbach’s critically acclaimed text Wilderness Medicine - offers fast-access solutions to all of the medical situations that can occur in non-traditional settings. From backpack to kayak, or on any mobile device, this indispensable, compact survival guide is detailed enough to cover the clinical presentation and treatment of a full range of wilderness emergencies!
• Meet a full-range of emergency situations with the utmost effectiveness. Appendices address everything from environment-specific situations to lists of essential supplies, medicines, and many additional topics of care.
• Compare what you are seeing with line drawings and color plates to quickly and accurately identify skin manifestations, plants, poisonous mushrooms, snakes, spiders, insects, etc.
• Rapidly retrieve and comprehend wilderness survival information with the aid of an easily accessible format featuring "Signs and Symptoms" and "Treatment" sections in most chapters - combined with bulleted lists and text boxes.
• Improvise with available materials so you can diagnose and treat a myriad of medical situations with step-by-step how-to explanations and the latest practical advice from wilderness medicine experts.
• Get guidance on the go with online access to the fully searchable text at Expert Consult, plus bonus downloadable files for Survival Kits.
• Get the wilderness medicine skills you need now with new chapters on foot problems and care, global humanitarian relief and disaster medicine, Leave No Trace principles, and high-altitude medicine, as well as lists to prepare a variety of survival kits for different settings and patient populations.
• Improve your competency and readiness with thoroughly revised chapters on shock, maxillofacial trauma, malaria, improvised litters and carries, aeromedical transport, pain management, life-threatening emergencies, and allergic reactions.
Editorials
Reviewer: Gian Corrado, MD(University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine)
Description: This is a portable, concise version of Auerbach's definitive textbook Wilderness Medicine: Management of Wilderness and Environmental Emergencies (Mosby-Year Book, Inc., 1995). It is intended for physicians who will be taking care of patients involved in a range of outdoor activities ranging from recreational camping trips to exploration of extreme wilderness. The authors discuss preparation, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment for a multitude of potential hazards found while exploring the earth's terrain.
Purpose: This guide provides a quick reference including insights regarding the use of alternate therapies when resources may be thin. This allows a physician with moderate field experience, who is not intimately familiar with the larger textbook, to perform in the capacity of a wilderness physician with some aptitude.
Audience: The three authors are well known experts in the field of wilderness trauma and medicine. They have produced a valuable resource for physicians planning to or currently working in the capacity of a wilderness physician. It is entertaining reading for physicians with an interest in the field.
Features: This book is well organized. The chapters are divided by headings such as shock, hypothermia, orthopedic injuries, allergic reaction, etc. There are many clear photos of potentially dangerous animals, suspicious skin infections, and mushrooms to avoid eating, and every chapter includes well-drawn illustrations.
Assessment: This is a fun, interesting, and valuable guide to outdoor medicine. I will take it with me on all future camping, mountain biking, and climbing adventures.