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Outdoor Medical Emergency Handbook: First Aid for Travellers, Backpackers, Adventurers

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The essential guide to emergency medical procedures away from home.

The Outdoor Medical Emergency Handbook provides easy-to-follow advice on how to prevent, treat and care for illnesses and injuries while outdoors or traveling. Using accurate drawings and a step-by-step format, the authors describe how to effectively assess a situation and what actions to take.

The book covers:

  • Planning and pre-departure tasks, expeditions with children, examining a casualty, medical kit design
  • Resuscitation ABCs, loss of consciousness, heart attack, diabetic emergencies, choking
  • High altitude sickness, hypothermia, dehydration, animals and insects, drowning
  • Wounds and bleeding, neck and spinal injuries, abdominal injuries, fractures, treating pain
  • Neurological and psychological disorders, infectious diseases, overdoses, poisoning
  • Emergency chest decompression, injections

    With its at-a-glance design, pack-ready format and waterproof cover, the Outdoor Medical Emergency Handbook is essential equipment for anyone traveling, whether camping with the family or making a solo assault on the Himalayas.



  • Item Specifications...

    Pages   240
    Dimensions:   Length: 0.75" Width: 5" Height: 9.5"
    Weight:   1.3 lbs.
    Binding  Softcover
    Release Date   Jan 26, 2010
    ISBN  1554076013  
    EAN  9781554076017  


    Availability  5 units.
    Availability accurate as of May 24, 2012 03:02.
    Usually ships within one to two business days from Momence, IL.
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