Description
Book SynopsisFully revised for its third edition, the Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine continues to be the essential resource for all expedition medics and well-informed travellers, as well as nurses, paramedics, medical students, and other expedition members travelling in remote, wilderness areas of the world. Now containing more guidance about caving medicine, the third edition includes revised and additional illustrations and essential maps of the spread of diseases. Clear and concise, readers can rely on this handbook to provide the key knowledge and practical advice they need. It enables efficient preparation and planning before the journey, advises on camp logistics, risk management, and medical problems during the expedition, as well as highlighting rare but important risks to those visiting remote areas. Focusing on preventative measures, it also contains chapters dealing with crisis management, emergency care, and evacuation from challenging environments, with guidance about the obligations of a clinician joining an expedition, ethical approaches to such work, and medicine in various extreme environments. This edition will give you the confidence and skills you need to travel to any extreme or remote environment. Incorporating the combined knowledge and experience of a team of experienced clinicians and expeditioners, this is a practical, easy-to-use guide to all aspects of expedition and wilderness medicine.
Table of Contents1: Expedition medicine 2: Preparations 3: Caring for people in the field 4: Ethics and responsibilities 5: Crisis management 6: Emergencies: diagnosis 7: Emergencies: trauma 8: Emergencies: collapse and serious illness 9: Treatment: skin 10: Treatment: head and neck 11: Treatment: dental 12: Treatment: chest 13: Treatment: abdomen 14: Treatment: limbs and back 15: Treatment: infectious diseases 16: Psychological and psychiatric problems 17: Risks from animals 18: Plants and fungi 19: Anaesthesia in remote locations 20: Cold climates 21: Mountains and high altitude 22: Inland and coastal waters 23: Offshore 24: Underwater 25: Hot, dry environments: deserts 26: Hot, humid environments: tropical forest 27: Caving 28: Medical kits
