Wilderness and Travel Medicine: A Complete Wilderness Medicine and Travel Medicine Handbook
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Wilderness and Travel Medicine: A Complete Wilderness Medicine and Travel Medicine Handbook
562Hardcover
Overview
This is the Only Wilderness Medicine Book You Need!
Could you save yourself or a loved one when there are no doctors around?
All too often travelers and outdoor enthusiasts get sick, injured, or worse.
Learn how to prevent and cure a wide range of ailments whether at home, abroad, or in the wilderness.
Discover how to heal yourself, because this comprehensive manual has all the information you need.
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A Wilderness Medicine Handbook Like No Other
- Diagnoses and treatments for a wide range of injuries and illnesses.
- How to improvise what you need when modern medicine isn't available.
- Pharmaceuticals, medicinal plants, veterinary substitutes, and other alternative remedies.
- Preventative methods so you don't get sick/injured in the first place.
- Safe use and dosage instructions for suggested medications.
- Sample wilderness medicine kit that you can take on a commercial flight.
Information for Each Condition Contains
- A brief description.
- Possible symptoms.
- Appropriate treatment(s) depending on the situation.
- Other supplementary information, e.g., causes, prevention, alternative remedies, complications.
A 2-Part Wilderness Medicine Field Guide
Quickly find what you're looking for in an emergency situation.
Part I is must-read information covering:
- Anatomy: Learn how the body's systems work individually and as a whole. This makes diagnoses easier.
- Prevention Medicine: Prevention is the best cure. Learn how to avoid getting sick and/or injured in the first place.
- First Aid Kit: An inventory and simple explanation of a first aid kit for travelers.
- Medications Guide: Information on the safe use of the medications in this book.
- Immediate First Aid: What to do in life-threatening medical situations.
- Secondary Exam: A secondary exam will help you to make an accurate medical diagnosis.
- Moving a Patient: Safe ways to move a patient.
Part II is diagnoses and treatments. It is uniquely categorized by cause and/or body area to enable quick searching.
- Environmental: Tropical diseases, heat and cold injuries, plants and animals, jetlag, etc.
- Head: Headaches, brain injuries, ears, eyes, and nose infections, dental issues, etc.
- Circulation: Shock, dehydration, diabetes, etc.
- Digestive: Diarrhea, constipation, food poisoning, motion sickness, etc.
- Genitourinary: STI's, pregnancy, UTI's, etc.
- Integumentary: Skin disorders, nail injuries, splinters, etc.
- Musculoskeletal: Sprains, strains, fractures, dislocations, etc.
- Respiratory: Asthma, strep-throat, bronchitis, cold and flu, pneumonia, etc.
... and much more.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781925979916 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | SF Nonfiction Books |
| Publication date: | 03/22/2021 |
| Series: | Escape, Evasion, and Survival , #4 |
| Pages: | 562 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.25(d) |
About the Author
Sam Fury has had a passion for survival, evasion, resistance, and escape (SERE) training since he was a young boy growing up in Australia.
This led him to years of training and career experience in related subjects, including martial arts, military training, survival skills, outdoor sports, and sustainable living.
These days, Sam spends his time refining existing skills, gaining new skills, and sharing what he learns via the Survival Fitness Plan website.
www.SurvivalFitnessPlan.com
Table of Contents
CONTENTS
Introduction
Patient Care
First Aid Kit
PART ONE: MUST-READ INFORMATION
Basic Human Anatomy
Circulatory System
Digestive System
Endocrine System
Immune System
Integumentary System
Genitourinary System
Musculoskeletal System
Nervous System
Respiratory System
Prevention
General Health and Fitness
Personal Hygiene
Vaccinations
Medications Guide
Using the Medications Recommended in This Book
Alternative Remedies Vs Pharmaceuticals
General Safe Use Information for all Medications
Analgesics, Anti-Inflammatory Drugs, and Fever Reducers
Antibiotics
Anti-fungals
Antihistamines
Antiseptics
Antiviral Drugs
Haemostatics
High-Altitude Medications
Motion Sickness, Nausea, and Vomiting
Medicinal Plants
Miscellaneous
Immediate First Aid
Critical First Aid
• Assess the Situation
• Mental Status: AVPU
• Airway
• Breathing
• Circulation
• Severe Bleeding
• Nervous System
Anaphylaxis
Heart Attack
Pressure Immobilization Technique
Sucking Chest Wound
Mass Casualty Critical Assessment
Secondary Exam
Recording Your Findings
Physical Exam
History
Vital Signs
Open Wounds, Skin Infections, and Sepsis
Open Wounds
Impaling Objects
Skin Infection and Sepsis
Moving a Patient
Drags
Carries
Improvised Litters
• Patient Packing
• Non-Rigid Litters
• Rigid Litters
PART TWO: DIAGNOSIS & TREATMENTS
ENVIRONMENTALLY INDUCED
Altitude Induced
General Prevention of Altitude-Induced Illnesses
Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS)
HAPE and HACE
HAFE
High-Altitude Pharyngitis and Bronchitis
Peripheral Edema
Animals: Marine
General Treatments
• Marine Toxins
• Spiny Injuries
Barracuda
Blue-Ringed Octopus
Bristle-Worm
Catfish
Conus
Coral
Jellyfish
Leeches
Moray Eel
Sea Cucumber
Sea Lion
Sea Snake
Sea Urchin
Sharks
Spine Fish
Sponges
Stingray
Weever Fish
Animals: Terrestrial
General Prevention of Animal Attack
Ant Bites
Bed Bugs
Bee/Wasp Sting
Caterpillars
Cat-Scratch Disease
Fleas
Insects: General
Mammalian Bites
Rabies
Mosquitoes
Dengue Fever
Japanese Encephalitis
Malaria
West Nile Virus
Yellow Fever
Cutaneous Myiasis
Mites and Chiggers
Porcupines
Scorpions
Snakes
Pressure-Immobilization Technique
Ticks
Lyme Disease
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Tick Paralysis
Lice
• Head Lice
• Pubic Lice
• Body Lice
Cold and/or Water Induced
Cold Water Immersion
Drowning
Frostbite
Hypothermia
Saltwater Sores
Trench Foot
... and more (4000 character cut off)