Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines for Wilderness Emergency Care »

Learn the wilderness medical management techniques approved and recommended by the Wilderness Medical Society.
These practice guidelines are the official statement of the Wilderness Medical Society on the best methods of handling wilderness-related trauma, illness, or environmental injury. Prepared by twenty-three contributors and reviewed by the WMS Panel of Expert Reviewers, this book discusses treatment goals for twenty-four basic subjects.
The Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines is a must for anyone dealing with emergency planning, first-aid procedures, or care of persons heading into remote areas for sport or employment.
 
Learn about:
 
Wilderness Evacuation
Cardiopulmonary
Resuscitation
Submersion, Head, and Spinal Injuries
Orthopedic Injuries
High-Altitude Illness
Hypothermia
Field Water Disinfection
Wild Animal Attacks
Tick-Transmitted Diseases
Immunizations
Reptile Envenomations
 

The Wilderness Medical Society is a nonprofit organization consisting of physicians and other health care providers from around the world who have an expertise or interest in wilderness-related medical problems.


 

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The official statement by the Society, a nonprofit organization of physicians and other health care providers based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Specialists in the various areas synthesize best practice for such aspects of wilderness medicine and health as evacuation, CPR, animal attacks, orthopedic injuries, water purification, botanical encounters, and heat-related illness. There is no index, but the chapters are only a few pages long. The CiP data and cover show the second edition with the first in 1995; Forgey says the fifth, with the most recent in 1995. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

(1) Wilderness Evacuation (2) Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (3) Submersion Injuries (4) Head Injury (5) Spinal Injury (6) Wound Management (7) Burn Management (8) Orthopedic Injuries (9) High Altitude Illness (10) Hypothermia (11) Frostbite/Immersion Foot (12) Heat-Related Illness (13) Lightning Injuries (14) Field Water Disinfection (15) Oral Fluid and Electrolyte Replacement (16) Wild Land Animal Attacks (17) Reptile Envenomation (18) Arthropod Envenomation (19) Tick Transmitted Diseases (20) Substance Abuse in Wilderness Settings (21) Anxiety and Stress Reactions in the Wilderness (22) Wilderness Medical Kits (23) Immunizations