Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine

Paul S. Auerbach, Benjamin B. Constance, MD, MBA, FACEP, FAWM, DiMM, Luanne Freer, MD, FACEP, FAWM

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Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
07 February 2019

Accident & emergency medicine

Based on Dr. Auerbach's renowned Wilderness Medicine text, Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine, 5th Edition, is your portable, authoritative guide to the full range of medical and emergency situations that occur in non-traditional settings. Useful for experienced physicians as well as advanced practice providers, this unique medical guide covers an indispensable range of topics in a well-illustrated, highly condensed format - in print or on any mobile device - for quick access anytime, anywhere.

An easy-access presentation ensures rapid retrieval and comprehension of wilderness medical information, with Signs and Symptoms and Treatment sections, bulleted lists, and quick-reference text boxes in every chapter. All chapters are thoroughly up to date, including new information on travel medicine, medications, immunizations, and field treatment of common conditions.

Step-by-step explanations from wilderness medicine experts cover the clinical presentation and treatment of a full range of wilderness emergencies and show you how to improvise with available materials.

Comprehensive coverage includes dive medicine and water-related emergencies, mountain medicine and wilderness survival, global humanitarian relief and disaster medicine, high-altitude medicine, pain management, and much more.

Line drawings and color plates help you quickly and accurately identify skin manifestations, plants, poisonous mushrooms, snakes, insects, and more.

Useful appendices address everything from environment-specific situations to lists of essential supplies, medicines, and many additional topics of care.

Expert ConsultT eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, tables and figures from the book on a variety of devices.

By: Paul S. Auerbach, Benjamin B. Constance, MD, MBA, FACEP, FAWM, DiMM, Luanne Freer, MD, FACEP, FAWM
Imprint: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 5th Revised edition
ISBN: 9780323597555
ISBN 10: 0323597556
Pages: 1040
Publication Date: 07 February 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr. Paul S. Auerbach, FACEP, FAWM, is the Redlich Family Professor of Surgery in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is the world's leading expert on wilderness medicine and a prolific author. He is the Editor of Wilderness Medicine, and author of Medicine for the Outdoors and Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine. Dr. Auerbach holds his MD from Duke and completed his internship at Dartmouth and residency at UCLA. He is certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine. He has been recognized as a Hero of Emergency Medicine by the American College of Emergency Physicians and received the New Orleans Grand Isle Award for Science from the Academy of Underwater Arts and Sciences, the Founders Award from the Wilderness Medical Society, and the Outstanding Contribution in Education Award from the American College of Emergency Physicians, among others. Dr. Auerbach has served as a volunteer physician in Haiti, Nepal, and Guatemala.

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Paul S. Auerbach, Benjamin B. Constance, MD, MBA, FACEP, FAWM, DiMM, Luanne Freer, MD, FACEP, FAWM

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