For maximum portability, Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine 2nd Edition is now available for your PDA.Based on Dr. Auerbach's text Wilderness Medicine, 4th Edition, the content focuses on information that is needed when medical situations present in the wilderness setting. Perfect for the physician on the go, this new 2nd edition includes more chapters and appendixes for an even quicker more complete reference!Instant access to the complete contents and illustrations from the critically acclaimed, Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine, 2nd Edition...right from your handheld. A logical organization that lets you find emergency procedures and techniques, quickly. A list of emergency conditions that require immediate evacuation. The appropriate equipment and supplies for basic first aid, wound management, pediatrics, and more. Drug information for parasitic infections, malaria, cholera, and others. Full-color photographs for easy identification of skin rashes · insects · snakes · plants · and much more!New chapters include: Solar Radiation and Sunscreen, Emergency Airway Management, Emergency Oxygen Administration, Pain Management, Cardiopulmonary Emergencies, Neurological Emergencies, Improvised Litters and Carriers, Aeromedical Transport, Survival, Knots, Children in the Wilderness, Women in the WildernessIncludes information on splints, slings, dressing and hot spotsExpanded coverage of animal attacks and zoonoses6 Appendixes including Priority First Aid Equipment, Contingency Supplies for Wilderness Travel and Medicine Specific to Women's HealthThe CD-ROM version of this handheld software is not Mac-compatible. All Mac users must purchase the downloadable version (ISBN 0-323-02587-0). See link to this product under "Companion Products".

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Medical Books

Auerbach MD MS FACEP MFAWM FAAEM, Paul S.

Weiss MD, Eric A.

Donner MD, Howard J.

Medicine

Mosby

Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine - based on Dr. Auerbach’s critically acclaimed text Wilderness Medicine - offers fast-access solutions to all of the medical situations that can occur in non-traditional settings. From backpack to kayak, or on any mobile device, this indispensable, compact survival guide is detailed enough to cover the clinical presentation and treatment of a full range of wilderness emergencies!
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Meet a full-range of emergency situations with the utmost effectiveness. Appendices address everything from environment-specific situations to lists of essential supplies, medicines, and many additional topics of care. </li>
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Compare what you are seeing with line drawings and color plates to quickly and accurately identify skin manifestations, plants, poisonous mushrooms, snakes, spiders, insects, etc.</li>
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Rapidly retrieve and comprehend wilderness survival information with the aid of an easily accessible format featuring "Signs and Symptoms" and "Treatment" sections in most chapters - combined with bulleted lists and text boxes.</li>
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Improvise with available materials so you can diagnose and treat a myriad of medical situations with step-by-step how-to explanations and the latest practical advice from wilderness medicine experts. </li>
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Get guidance on the go with online access to the fully searchable text at Expert Consult, plus bonus downloadable files for Survival Kits. </li>
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Get the wilderness medicine skills you need now with new chapters on foot problems and care, global humanitarian relief and disaster medicine, Leave No Trace principles, and high-altitude medicine, as well as lists to prepare a variety of survival kits for different settings and patient populations.</li>
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Improve your competency and readiness with thoroughly revised chapters on shock, maxillofacial trauma, malaria, improvised litters and carries, aeromedical transport, pain management, life-threatening emergencies, and allergic reactions.</li>
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Sports & Outdoors

Hiking & Camping

Since 1986, Medicine for the Outdoors has been hailed as the definitive take-along manual on the subject. Packed with step-by-step instructions and how-to explanations, this updated edition tells you the best way to respond to just about any medical problem. Logically organized, simple-to-understand enhanced illustrations and an increased focus on new topics mean this medical reference book may literally save your life. Whether you’re venturing into mountains, deserts, forests, or out to sea, it belongs in your pack! "A comprehensive guide to basically anything that could go wrong, or needs to medically managed whilst in out and about." Reviewed by: Dr Stevan R Bruijns, Senior Lecturer in Emergency Medicine at University of Cape Town Date: July 2015
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<li>Examine the most diverse and comprehensive coverage</li> of medical conditions related to the outdoors.<li>
Be guided through logical and complete explanations of every topic.</li>
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Enhance your understanding with descriptive material including numerous drawings and instructions.</li>
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Research recommendations for injury and illness prevention.</li>
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Locate answers quickly with a helpful comprehensive index.</li>
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<li>Clearly visualize how to perform</li> specific treatments, such as the use of a SAM® splint, with an increased number of helpful illustrations. <li>
Stay abreast of the latest in emergency medicine care, including new antibiotics, medicines, products to control bleeding, and today's most common infectious disease threats.</li>
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Enhance your understanding of Lyme disease; water disinfection; emerging diseases (including West Nile Virus); and how to seek safety and act during natural disasters.</li>
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Take advantage of Dr. Auerbach’s expert guidance with revised recommendations on high-altitude problems, drowning, airways management, toxic plants, and snake bites.</li>
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Access new appendices covering AIDS/HIV transmission, expanded treatment instructions, global conflict guidelines (including terrorism), and canine medicine. </li>
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Expert Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, references, and videos from the book on a variety of devices. </li>
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Medicine for the Outdoors

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Saunders

Now in its 7th edition, Auerbach’s Wilderness Medicine continues to help you quickly and decisively manage medical emergencies encountered in any wilderness or other austere setting! World-renowned authority Dr. Paul Auerbach and 2 new associate editors have assembled a team of experts to offer proven, practical, visual guidance for effectively diagnosing and treating the full range of issues that can occur in situations where time and resources are scarce. Now in an exciting 2-volume set that includes convenient online access, this indispensable resource equips physicians, nurses, advanced practice providers, first responders, and rescuers with the essential knowledge and skills to effectively address and prevent injuries and illnesses – no matter where they happen! 
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<li>Brand-new 2-volume format ensures all content is available in print and online to provide you easy access. </li>
<li>Face any medical challenge in the wilderness with expert guidance from hundreds of outstanding world experts edited by Dr. Auerbach and 2 new associate editors, Drs.Tracy Cushing and N. Stuart Harris. </li>
<li>New and expanded chapters with hundreds of new photos and illustrative drawings help increase your visual understanding of the material. </li>
<li>Acquire the knowledge and skills you need with revised chapters providing expanded discussions of high-altitude medicine, improvisation, technical rescue, telemedicine, ultrasound, and wilderness medicine education. 
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<li>Ten new chapters cover Acute High-Altitude Medicine and Pathophysiology; High Altitude and Pre-Existing Medical Conditions; Cycles, Snowmobiles, and other Wilderness Conveyances; Medical Wilderness Adventure Races (MedWAR); Canyoneering and Canyon Medicine; Evidence-Based Wilderness Medicine; National Park Service Medicine; Genomics and Personalized Wilderness Medicine; Forestry; and Earth Sciences. 
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<li>30+ Expert Consult online videos cover survival tips, procedural demonstrations, and detailed explanations of diseases and incidents. 
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<li>Expert Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, images, videos, and references from the book on a variety of devices.</li>
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Auerbach's Wilderness Medicine, 2-Volume Set

Cushing MD MPH, Tracy A

Harris MD MFA FRCP Edin., N. Stuart

Elsevier

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.
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<li>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.</li> <li>All chapters are thoroughly up to date, including new information on travel medicine, medications, immunizations, and field treatment of common conditions.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Line drawings and color plates help you quickly and accurately identify skin manifestations, plants, poisonous mushrooms, snakes, insects, and more.</li> <li>Useful appendices address everything from environment-specific situations to lists of essential supplies, medicines, and many additional topics of care.</li> <li>Expert Consult™ 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.</li> </ul>

Freer MD FACEP FAWM, Luanne

Constance MD MBA FACEP FAWM DiMM, Benjamin B.

Nursing

For nearly 40 years, Medicine for the Outdoors: The Essential Guide to First Aid and Medical Emergencies has been the take-along manual of choice for anyone venturing into the mountains, forest, desert, or on water. This essential guide provides highly illustrated, easy-to-follow guidance on immediate stabilization and treatment of persons with virtually any possible medical problem-designed for on-the-spot use when higher-level medical care is not accessible. Written by experts in outdoor medicine, this updated edition helps you manage any situation until medical personnel can take over. <ul> <li> Covers key information on a wide range of disorders related to specific environments, including natural disasters, high-altitude problems, water-related incidents, heat- and cold-related illnesses, and wildland fires.&nbsp;&nbsp; </li> <li> Provides easy-to-understand recommendations for dealing with animal attacks, venomous wildlife, wild plant and mushroom poisoning, minor and major medical problems, infectious diseases, water disinfection, and severe bleeding.&nbsp;&nbsp; </li> <li> Discusses key topics, including antibiotics, medicines, opioid overdose treatment, wound closure techniques, severe bleeding, spinal assessment and immobilization, tourniquets, the use of a Gamow bag for severe altitude illness, splinting, dental emergencies, disaster preparedness, global conflict guidelines, canine medicine, today's infectious disease threats, and much more.&nbsp; </li> <li> Includes up-to-date guidelines, even more helpful illustrations and diagrams, and a new chapter: Patient Assessment: A Structured Approach to Emergencies in the Outdoors.&nbsp; </li> <li> Includes advanced topics valuable to physicians and expedition medical staff at all levels of training and experience.&nbsp; </li> <li> Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.&nbsp; </li> </ul>

Medicine for the Outdoors: The Essential Guide to First Aid and Medical Emergencies

Higgins, Tate

Arastu, Ali S.

This field-guide handbook, based upon Dr. Auerbach's text Wilderness Medicine, 3rd Edition, focuses on information that is needed when medical situations present in the wilderness setting. It covers field therapy, initial emergency management, and recommendations for injury and illness prevention (including acclimatization). ... Includes the essential treatment protocols for wilderness emergencies in a compact, easily carried, paperback text. ... Written at a higher-level for the medical professional. ... Discusses diagnostic and treatment procedures with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions. ... Includes definitions, clinical presentations, and treatments in a well-organized and indexed format. ... Emphasizes improvisation, so that the reader may efficiently use whatever materials exist in the environment to aid treatment. ... Written by recognized leaders in the field of wilderness medicine.

Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine

Completely revised and updated, the new edition of this portable guide offers fast-access solutions to all of the medical situations that can occur in non-traditional settings. Based on Dr. Auerbach’s critically acclaimed text Wilderness Medicine, 5th Edition, this handbook is packed with how-to step-by-step explanations and the latest practical advice on diagnosis and treatment―emphasizing ways of improvising care with whatever materials you have available. It’s small enough to be carried in a car’s glove compartment or in your backpack―yet detailed enough to cover the clinical presentation and treatment of a full range of emergencies!
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<li>Offers appendices that address everything from environment-specific situations to lists of essential supplies, medicines, and many additional topics of care, enabling you to meet a full-range of emergency situations with the utmost effectiveness. </li>
<li>Includes line drawings―along with a section of color plates―that aid in the identification of skin rashes, plants, snakes, insects, and more. </li>
<li>Provides Signs and Symptoms and Treatment sections in most chapters―combined with bulleted lists and text boxes―that facilitate quick and easy retrieval of information. </li>
<li>Presents full chapter coverage of both animal attacks and zoonoses for handling life-threatening situations. </li>
<li>Features peerless guidance in a portable format for consultation anywhere from the office setting to the open outdoors.</li>
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<li>Features a new appendix on jungle travel and survival, and new chapters on forest fires, bandaging and taping techniques, mental health, hydration and dehydration, malaria―and more―equipping you to handle any emergency you might encounter in the wilderness. </li>
<li>Includes more tips for improvisational care (eg, how to make a rigid litter using skis, poles, snowshoes, canoe paddles, or tree branches) to help you respond to wilderness and nontraditional emergencies with the materials that you have on hand. </li>
<li>Presents thorough revisions to all previously existing chapters―ensuring that you have the latest knowledge at your fingertips.</li>
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Quickly and decisively manage any medical emergency you encounter in the great outdoors with Wilderness Medicine! World-renowned authority and author Dr. Paul Auerbach and a team of experts offer proven, practical, visual guidance for effectively diagnosing and treating the full range of emergencies and health problems encountered in situations where time and resources are scarce. Every day, more and more people are venturing into the wilderness and extreme environments, or are victims of horrific natural disasters...and many are unprepared for the dangers and aftermath that come with these episodes. Whether these victims are stranded on mountaintops, lost in the desert, injured on a remote bike path, or ill far out at sea, this indispensable resource--now with online access at www.expertconsult.com for greater accessibility and portability--equips rescuers and health care professionals to effectively address and prevent injury and illness in the wilderness! This textbook is widely referred to as "The Bible of Wilderness Medicine."
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Be able to practice emergency medicine outside of the traditional hospital/clinical setting whether you are in remote environments, underdeveloped but highly populated areas, or disaster areas, are part of search and rescue operations, or dealing with casualties from episodes of extreme sports and active lifestyle activities.</li> <li>
Face any medical challenge in the wilderness with expert guidance: Dr. Auerbach is a noted author and the world's leading authority on wilderness medicine. He is a founder and Past President of the Wilderness Medical Society, consultant to the Divers Alert Network and many other agencies and organizations, and a member of the National Medical Committee for the National Ski Patrol System.</li> <li>
Handle everything from frostbite to infection by marine microbes, not to mention other diverse injuries, bites, stings, poisonous plant exposures, animal attacks, and natural disasters.</li> <li>Grasp the essential aspects of search and rescue.</li> <li>
Respond quickly and effectively by improvising with available materials.</li> <li>
Improve your competency and readiness with the latest guidance on volcanic eruptions, extreme sports, splints and slings, wilderness cardiology, living off the land, aerospace medicine, mental health in the wilderness, tactical combat casualty care, and much more.</li> <li>
Meet the needs and special considerations of specific patient populations such as children, women, elders, persons with chronic medical conditions, and the disabled.</li> <li>
Make smart decisions about gear, navigation, nutrition, and survival. </li>
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Be prepared for everything with expanded coverage on topics such as high altitude, cold water immersion, and poisonous and venomous plants and animals.</li> <li>
Get the skills you need now with new information on global humanitarian relief and expedition medicine, plus expanded coverage of injury prevention and environmental preservation.</li> <li>
Get guidance on the go with fully searchable text plus bonus images, tables and video clips online at www.expertconsult.com.</li> </ul>
Ensure patient survival in the wilderness with Dr. Paul Auerbach’s indispensible reference.

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Medicine for the Outdoors

Auerbach's Wilderness Medicine, 2-Volume Set

Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine: Expert Consult - Online and Print

Medicine for the Outdoors: The Essential Guide to First Aid and Medical Emergencies

Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine

Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine: Expert Consult - Online and Print

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