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| Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine | 
 enlarge | Authors: Paul S. Auerbach, Howard J. Donner, Eric A. Weiss
Publisher: Mosby
Category: Book
List Price: $42.95
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 944
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 4.7 x 1.2
ISBN: 1416046984
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.025
EAN: 9781416046981
Publication Date: May 13, 2008
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Product Description
Completely revised and updated, the new edition of this portable guide offers fast-access solutions to all of the medical situations that can occur in non-traditional settings. Based on Dr. Auerbach's critically acclaimed text Wilderness Medicine, 5th Edition, this handbook is packed with how-to step-by-step explanations and the latest practical advice on diagnosis and treatment-emphasizing ways of improvising care with whatever materials you have available. It's small enough to be carried in a car's glove compartment or in your backpack-yet detailed enough to cover the clinical presentation and treatment of a full range of emergencies!
- Offers appendices that address everything from environment-specific situations to lists of essential supplies, medicines, and many additional topics of care, enabling you to meet a full-range of emergency situations with the utmost effectiveness.
- Includes line drawings-along with a section of color plates-that aid in the identification of skin rashes, plants, snakes, insects, and more.
- Provides Signs and Symptoms and Treatment sections in most chapters-combined with bulleted lists and text boxes-that facilitate quick and easy retrieval of information.
- Presents full chapter coverage of both animal attacks and zoonoses for handling life-threatening situations.
- Features peerless guidance in a portable format for consultation anywhere from the office setting to the open outdoors.
- Features a new appendix on jungle travel and survival, and new chapters on forest fires, bandaging and taping techniques, mental health, hydration and dehydration, malaria-and more-equipping you to handle any emergency you might encounter in the wilderness.
- Includes more tips for improvisational care (eg, how to make a rigid litter using skis, poles, snowshoes, canoe paddles, or tree branches) to help you respond to wilderness and nontraditional emergencies with the materials that you have on hand.
- Presents thorough revisions to all previously existing chapters-ensuring that you have the latest knowledge at your fingertips.
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