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Wilderness Medicine: Text with DVD
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Product Description
Manage any medical emergency you encounter in the great outdoors! Every day, more and more people are venturing into the wilderness and extreme environments...and many are unprepared for the dangers that come with these adventures. Whether these victims are stranded on mountain tops, lost in the desert, trapped deep in the woods, or injured far out at sea, this indispensable resource equips rescuers and health care professionals to diagnose and treat the full range of emergencies and health problems encountered in the wilderness!
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #200827 in Books
- Published on: 2007-03-27
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: .11 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 2336 pages
Editorial Reviews
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The definitive source for health care professionals dealing with wilderness and environmentally related illnesses and injuries, this guide provides specific therapeutic guidelines and reviews interactions between people and the environment.
Book Info
Third edition of a comprehensive reference for emergency and primary care physicians and residents. 1989 edition entitled Management of Wilderness and Environmental Emergencies. 93 contributors, 89 U.S. DNLM: Recreation.
About the Author
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.
