Research Catalog

Title

Wilderness medicine : management of wilderness and environmental emergencies / edited by Paul S. Auerbach.

Publication

St. Louis : Mosby, ©1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Auerbach, Paul S.

Description

xxiii, 1506 p., [20] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps; 29 cm.

Uniform Title

Management of wilderness and environmental emergencies.

Subject

• Outdoor medical emergencies
• Mountaineering injuries
• Environmentally induced diseases
• Mountaineering accidents
• Recreation
• Medical emergencies
• Recreation
• Emergencies
• Environmental Exposure
• Leisure Activities
• recreation
• Mountaineering accidents
• Medical emergencies
• Environmentally induced diseases
• Mountaineering injuries
• Outdoor medical emergencies
• Woeste gronden
• Medische hulpverlening

Note

• Rev. ed. of: Management of wilderness and environment emergencies. 2nd ed. 1989.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 1425-1428) and index.

Contents

High-Altitude Medicine / Peter H. Hackett ; Robert C. Roach -- Thermoregulation / Larry I. Crawshaw -- Accidental Hypothermia / Daniel F. Danzl ; Robert S. Pozos ; Murray P. Hamlet -- Cold Water Immersion / Alan M. Steinman ; John S. Hayward -- Frostbite and Other Cold-Induced Injuries / Robert L. McCauley ; David J. Smith, Jr. ; Martin C. Robson ; John P. Heggers -- Wilderness Clothing / Arthur L. Dickinson -- Polar Medicine / Bern Shen -- Heat-Related Illnesses / Roger W. Hubbard ; Stephen L. Gaffin ; Deborah L. Squire -- Wildland Fires: Dangers and Survival / Kathleen Mary Davis ; Robert W. Mutch -- Emergency Care of the Burned Patient / Roberta Mann ; David M. Heimbach -- Lightning Injuries / Mary Ann Cooper ; Christopher J. Andrews -- Exposure to Radiation from the Sun / Josiah Friedlander ; Nicholas J. Lowe -- Wilderness Trauma Emergencies / John A. Morris, Jr. ; Marc F. Swiontkowski ; Henry J. Herrmann -- Hunting Injuries / Edward J. Otten -- Wilderness Survival / Warren D. Bowman -- Jungle Travel and Survival / John B. Walden -- Wilderness Equipment and Medical Supplies / Steven C. Zell ; Philip H. Goodman -- Wilderness Improvisation / Eric A. Weiss ; Howard J. Donner -- Children in the Wilderness / Barbara C. Kennedy ; Douglas A. Gentile -- Women in the Wilderness / Joseph F. Mortola ; Gunhilde M. Buchsbaum -- Search and Rescue / Donald C. Cooper ; Patrick H. La Valla ; Robert C. Stoffel -- Aeromedical Transport / S. Marshal Isaacs ; Charles E. Saunders ; Bruno D|rrer -- Wilderness Emergency Medical Services and Response Systems / Franklin R. Hubbell -- Natural and Human-Made Hazards: Mitigation and Management Issues / Sheila B. Reed -- Avalanches / Knox Williams ; Betsy R. Armstrong ; Richard L. Armstrong -- Natural Disaster Management / Eric K. Noji -- The Changing Environment / James K. Mitchell ; Keith Harrington -- North American Venomous Reptile Bites / John B. Sullivan, Jr. ; Willis A. Wingert ; Robert L. Norris, Jr. -- Non-North American Venomous Reptile Bites / Sherman A. Minton ; Robert L. Norris, Jr. -- Antivenins and Immunobiologicals: Immunotherapeutics of Envenomation / Rivka S. Horowitz ; Richard C. Dart -- Arthropod Envenomation and Parasitism / Sherman A. Minton ; H. Bernard Bechtel -- Spider Bites / Leslie V. Boyer Hassen ; Jude T. McNally -- Tick-Borne Diseases / Douglas A. Gentile -- Protection from Blood-Feeding Arthropods / Carl E. Schreck -- Scorpion Envenomation / David A. Connor ; Brad S. Selden -- Plant-Induced Dermatitis / William L. Epstein ; John H. Epstein -- Toxic Plant Ingestions / George Braitberg ; Donald B. Kunkel ; Michele Adler ; Edward C. Geehr -- Mushroom Toxicity / Sandra M. Schneider -- Plant Medicine / Kevin Jon Davison -- Bites and Injuries Inflicted by Mammals / Michael L. Callaham ; Steven P. French -- Wilderness-Acquired Zoonoses / Leonard C. Marcus -- Infectious Diarrhea from Wilderness and Foreign Travel / Herbert L. DuPont ; Howard D. Backer -- Field Water Disinfection / Howard D. Backer -- Travel Medicine / Elaine C. Jong -- Foreign Travel and Exotic Diseases / Jay D. Wenger ; James W. Kazura -- Emergency Veterinary Medicine / Murray E. Fowler -- Scuba Diving and Dysbarism / Kenneth W. Kizer -- Submersion Incidents / Andrew B. Newman -- White-Water Medicine and Rescue / Eric A. Weiss -- Survival at Sea / Scott A. Oslund ; Christopher J. Brooks -- Injuries from Nonvenomous Aquatic Animals / Paul S. Auerbach ; Bruce W. Halstead -- Marine Envenomation / Paul S. Auerbach -- Seafood Toxidromes / Paul S. Auerbach -- Aquatic Skin Disorders / Paul S. Auerbach -- Medical Liability and Wilderness Emergencies / Gregory L. Henry ; Edward R. St -- Ethics of Wilderness Medicine / Kenneth V. Iserson.

ISBN

• 0801670446
• 9780801670442

LCCN

94012663

OCLC

• ocm30516725
• 30516725
• SCSB-2094907

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library