Wilderness medicine

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Título:
Wilderness medicine
Autor: Paul S Auerbach
Assuntos: Outdoor medical emergencies; Mountaineering injuries; Environmentally induced diseases; Recreation; Emergencies; Emergency Treatment -- methods; Environmental Exposure; Survival; Notfallmedizin; Touristikmedizin; Überlebenstraining; RECREAÇÃO; EXPOSIÇÃO AMBIENTAL; TRATAMENTO DE EMERGÊNCIA
Notas: Includes bibliographical references and index
Descrição: Mountain medicine -- Avalanches / Dale Atkins, Lightning injuries -- Cold and heat -- Thermoregulation / Accidental hypothermia / Immersion in cold water / Nonfreezing cold-induced injuries / Frostbite / Polar medicine / Pathophysiology of heat-related illnesses / Clinical management of heat-related injuries / Burns, fire, and radiation -- Wildland fires : dangers and survival / Emergency care of the burned victim / Exposure to radiation from the Sun / Volcanic eruptions /
Injury and medical interventions -- Injury prevention / Principles of pain management / Bandaging and taping / Emergency airway management / Wilderness trauma, surgical emergencies, and wound management / Improvisation in the wilderness / Hunting and other weapons injuries / Tactical medicine and combat casualty care / Wilderness orthopaedics / The eye in the wilderness / Wilderness dentistry and management of facial injuries / Wilderness cardiology / Wilderness neurology / Chronic diseases and wilderness activities / Mental health in the wilderness /
Rescue and survival -- Wilderness emergency medical services and response systems / Search and rescue / Technical rescue in the wilderness environment / Litters and carries / Aeromedical transport / Essentials of wilderness survival / Jungle travel and survival / Desert travel and survival / Whitewater medicine and rescue / Caving and cave rescue /
Animals, insects, and zoonoses -- Protection from blood-feeding arthropods / Mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases / Malaria / Arthropod envenomation and parasitism / Tick-borne diseases / Spider bites / Scorpion envenomation / Bites by venomous reptiles in the Americas / Bites by venomous snakes outside the Americas / Antivenoms and immunobiologicals : immunotherapeutics of envenomation / Bites and injuries inflicted by wild and domestic animals / Bear behavior and attacks / Wilderness-acquired zoonoses / Rabies / Emergency veterinary medicine
Plants -- Seasonal and acute allergic reactions / Plant-induced dermatitis / Toxic plant ingestions / Toxic mushroom ingestions / Ethnobotany : plant-derived medical therapy / Food and water -- Field water disinfection / Infectious diarrhea from wilderness and foreign travel / Nutrition, malnutrition, and starvation / Dehydration, rehydration, and hyperhydration / Living off the land / Seafood toxidromes / Seafood allergies /
Marine medicine -- Submersion incidents / Emergency oxygen administration / Diving medicine / Hyperbaric medicine / Injuries from nonvenomous aquatic animals / Envenomation by aquatic invertebrates / Envenomation by aquatic vertebrates / Aquatic skin disorders / Safety and survival at sea / Travel, environmental hazards, and disasters -- Travel medicine / Non-North American travel and exotic diseases / Natural disaster management / Natural and human-made hazards : disaster risk management issues / Equipment and special knowledge -- Wilderness preparation, equipment, and medical supplies / Outdoor clothing for wilderness professionals / Nonmedical backcountry equipment for wilderness professionals / Ropes and knot tying / Steve E. Hudson -- Wilderness navigation techniques /
Special populations and considerations -- Exercise, conditioning, and performance / Children in the wilderness / Women in the wilderness / Elders in the wilderness / Persons with special needs and disabilities / Wilderness and endurance events / Wilderness medicine education / Medical liability and wilderness emergencies / The ethics of wilderness medicine / The wilderness -- The changing environment / Wilderness management and preservation / Aerospace medicine / Appendix : Drug storage and stability / Index.
Editor: Philadelphia Mosby Elsevier
Data de criação/publicação: c2007
Formato: xix, 2316 p ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps 28 cm 1 DVD-ROM (4 3/4 in.).
Idioma: Inglês

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Wilderness medicine

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Philadelphia Mosby Elsevier c2007

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