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Wilderness Medicine: Beyond First Aid 7th Edition Paperback

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Wilderness Medicine: Beyond First Aid 7th Edition Paperback by William W. Forgey


Now fully revised and updated, Wilderness Medicine: Beyond First Aid is essential reading for any trail user, from trip leaders and guides to EMTs and paramedics.  You and your group are on the adventure of a lifetime, far from civilisation, surrounded by wilderness. Someone gets hurt or sick. What do you do? With Dr. William Forgey's comprehensive Wilderness Medicine: Beyond First Aid in hand, you can recognise, assess, and treat many kinds of medical emergencies. This illustrated text is essential reading for anyone from trip leaders, guides, and search and rescue groups to EMTs, paramedics, and physicians who must provide immediate care when access to a medical facility is difficult or impossible. Learn how to survey, assess, and stabilise the victim and the medical situation, what questions to ask to gain necessary vital information, how to manage physical symptoms as well as care for wounds and orthopaedic injuries and much more.

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With Dr. William Forgey's comprehensive Wilderness Medicine: Beyond First Aid in hand, you can recognise, assess, and treat many kinds of medical emergencies. This illustrated text is essential reading for anyone from trip leaders, guides, and search and rescue groups to EMTs, paramedics, and physicians who must provide immediate care when access to a medical facility is difficult or impossible. Learn how to survey, assess, and stabilise the victim and the medical situation, what questions to ask to gain necessary vital information, how to manage physical symptoms as well as care for wounds and orthopaedic injuries and much more.
Specifications
  • Author: William W. Forgey
  • Dimensions: 15.42 x 1.88 x 22.61cm
  • Publisher: Falcon Guides; 7th edition (15 October 2017)
  • Language: English
  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • ISBN-10: 1493027182
  • ISBN-13: 978-1493027187

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