Wilderness medicine / [edited by] Paul S. Auerbach.
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| Language: | English |
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St. Louis :
Mosby,
[2001]
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| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword - The Modern History of Wilderness Medicine
- Part 1. Mountain Medicine
- High-Altitude Medicine
- Avalanches
- Lightning Injuries
- Part 2. Cold and Heat
- Thermoregulation
- Non-Freezing Cold Injuries
- Accidential Hypothermia
- Frostbite
- Immersion into Cold Water
- Polar Medicine
- Pathophysiology of Heat-Related Illnesses
- Clinical management of Heat-Related Illnesses
- Part 3. Burns, Fire and Radiation
- Wildland Fires - Dangers and Survival
- Emergency Care of the Burned Victim
- Exposure to Radiation from the Sun
- Part 4. Injuries and Medical Interventions
- Injury Prevention
- Principles of Pain Management
- Emergency Airway Management
- Wilderness Trauma and Surgical Emergencies
- Improvisation in the Wilderness
- Hunting and Other Weapons Injuries
- Wilderness Orthopaedics
- The Eye in the Wilderness
- Wilderness Dentistry and Management of Facial Injuries
- Part 5. Rescue and Survival
- Wilderness Emergency Medical Services and Response Systems
- Search and Rescue
- Litters and Carries
- Aeromedical Transport
- Survival in the Wilderness
- Jungle Travel and Survival
- White-water Medicine and Rescue
- Cave Rescue
- Part 6. Animals, Insects, and Zoonoses
- Protection from Blood-Feeding Arthropods
- Tick-Borne Diseases
- Spider Bites
- Scorpion Envenomation
- North American Arthropod Envenomation and Parasitism
- Non-North American Arthropod Envenomation and Parasitism
- North American Reptile Bites
- Non-North American Reptile Bites
- Antivenins and Immunobiologicals - Immunotherapeutics of Envenomation
- Bites and Injuries Inflicted by Domestic Animals
- Bites and Injuries Inflicted by Feral Animals
- Bear Behavior and Attacks
- Wilderness-Acquired Zoonoses
- Emergency Veterinary Medicine
- Part 7. Plants
- Seasonal Allergies
- Plant-Induced Dermatitis
- Toxic Plant Ingestions
- Mushroom Toxicity
- Ethnobotany - Plant-Derived Medical Therapy
- Part 8. Food and Water
- Field Water Disinfection
- Infectious Diarrhea from Wilderness and Foreign Travel
- Nutrition, Malnutrition, and Starvation
- Seafood Toxidromes
- Seafood Allergies
- Part 9. Marine Medicine
- Submersion Incidents
- Diving Medicine
- Emergency Oxygen Administration
- Principles of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
- Injuries from Nonvenomous Aquatic Animals
- Envenomation by Aquatic Invertebrates
- Envenomation by Aquatic Vertebrates
- Aquatic Skin Disorders
- Survival at Sea
- Part 10. Travel, Environmental Hazards, and Disasters
- Travel Medicine
- Non-North American Travel and Exotic Diseases
- Natural Disaster Management
- Natural and Human-Made Hazards - Mitigation and Management Issues
- Part 11. Equipment and Special Knowledge
- Wilderness Equipment and Medical Supplies
- Wilderness Clothing
- Lights, Lamps, Stoves, and Other Gear
- Ropes and Knot Tying
- Compass & Celestial Navigation
- Part 12. Special Populations and Considerations
- Children in the Wilderness
- Women in the Wilderness
- Elders in the Wilderness
- Medical Liability and Wilderness Emergencies
- The Ethics of Wilderness Medicine
- The Changing Environment.