Manage hiking, camping, backpacking, and outdoor emergencies
There's never a good place for a medical emergency, but some locations
are much worse than others. If you are out in nature, far from help,
when the unthinkable happens, you must be prepared. Outdoor Medicine
is your handy, portable, easy-to-understand guide that helps you to
follow the correct course of action. Whether it's illness, injury, or
life-or-death conditions, author Patrick Brighton, M.D., FACS, is there
to lend his experience in assessing and managing backcountry
emergencies. The author's expertise--as a board-certified trauma surgeon
and a mountaineer, climber, kayaker, and member of a mountain rescue
team--has allowed him to develop concise descriptions of the diagnosis,
treatment options, and evacuation strategies for several common medical
emergencies.
This tabbed booklet is organized by type of injury, so you can quickly
reference the information you need to evaluate and treat the condition.
There's no need to wade through time-consuming data that you won't use.
The easily digestible instructions help you to assess the situation and
decide how to proceed, with tips on what to do and what not to do. The
guide also takes into consideration the variable challenges you might
face: limited resources, weather, victim/rescuer capabilities, and
evacuation options.
With strategies based on the latest research from the American College
of Surgeons, the American Heart Association, and Dr. Brighton's decades
of experience, you can be certain that you're getting the best advice
available. So get this pocket-sized guide to outdoor medicine, and hope
that you never have to use it--but take comfort in knowing that it's
there if you do.
