Wilderness Medicine, Beyond First Aid, 5th Edition

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Wilderness Medicine: Beyond First Aid can help you recognize, assess, and treat many kinds of medical emergencies. Safety.com recommends this book as a guide to providing immedicate care when access to a medical facility is difficult or impossible.

About the Wilderness Medicine, Beyond First Aid, 5th Edition

You and your group are on the adventure of a lifetime, far from civilization, surrounded by wilderness. Someone gets hurt or sick. What do you do? With Dr. William Forgey's comprehensive Wilderness Medicine: Beyond First Aid in hand, you can recognize, assess, and treat many kinds of medical emergencies. This illustrated text is essential reading for anyone from trip leaders, guides, and search and rescue groups to EMTs, paramedics, and physicians who must provide immediate care when access to a medical facility is difficult or impossible. Learn how to survey, assess, and stabilize the victim and the medical situation, what questions to ask to gain necessary vital information, how to manage physical symptoms as well as care for wounds and orthopedic injuries and much more.