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

Briggs, Spike; Mackenzie, Campbell

 
9781554076017: Outdoor Medical Emergency Handbook: First Aid for Travellers, Backpackers, Adventurers: First Aid for Travelers, Backpackers, Adventurers
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1554076013 ISBN 13: 9781554076017
Verlag: Firefly Books Ltd, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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    Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

    Spike Briggs, BSc, FRCA, is a specialist in intensive care medicine, an advisor on medical support for ocean yacht races and an instructor of advanced life support. Campbell Mackenzie, RD, FRCP, was a surgeon commander in the Royal Navy and Royal Naval Reserve. He is now an instructor and examiner for the Royal Yachting Association First Aid Course.

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    Verlag
    Firefly Books Ltd
    Erscheinungsdatum
    2010
    Sprache
    Englisch
    ISBN 10 
    1554076013
    ISBN 13 
    9781554076017
    Einband
    Taschenbuch
    Anzahl der Seiten
    240
    Kontakt zum Hersteller
    Giunti Editore
    n.pederzini@terminaldistribuzione.com

    Via Bruno Buozzi, 24/26,
    Granarolo dell'Emilia BO,
    40057
    Italien

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