Wilderness and rescue medicine
Print Book, English, ©2013
6th ed
Jones & Bartlett Learning, Burlington, MA, ©2013
Methods (Music)
xiv, 225 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
9780763789206, 0763789208
785442005
Section 1: Preparatory
1. General Principles of Physiology and Pathology
2. General Principles of Wilderness Rescue
3. Patient Assessment // Section 2: Critical Body Systems
4. The Circulatory System
5. The Respiratory System
6. The Central Nervous System // Section 3: Critical System Problems and Treatment
7. Basic and Advanced Life Support
8. Allergy and Anaphylaxis
9. Severe Asthma
10. Diabetes and Hypoglycemia // Section 4: Trauma
11. General Principles of Trauma
12. Pain Management
13. Musculoskeletal Injury
14. Simple Dislocations
15. Spine Injury
16. Soft-Tissue Injury // Section 5: Backcountry Medicine
17. An Approach to Illness
18. Facial Injury and Infection
19. Abdominal Pain
20. Chest Pain
21. Gastrointestinal Problems
22. Genitourinary Problems
23. Respiratory Problems // Section 6: Environmental Medicine
24. Thermoregulation
25. Cold Injuries
26. Altitude Illness
27. Medical Aspects of Avalanche Rescue
28. Water-Related Injury
29. Lightning Injuries
30. Toxins, Envenomations, and Disease Vectors
Appendix A: Roles, Responsibilities, and Technology
Appendix B: Conversion Tables
Glossary