Outdoor Medical Emergency Handbook: First Aid for Travelers, Backpackers & Adventurers - Couverture souple

Briggs, Spike; Mackenzie, Campbell

 
9781770857049: Outdoor Medical Emergency Handbook: First Aid for Travelers, Backpackers & Adventurers
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ISBN 10 : 1770857044 ISBN 13 : 9781770857049
Editeur : Firefly Books Ltd, 2016

Synopsis

The essential guide to emergency medical procedures away from home. The Outdoor Medical Emergency Handbook provides easy-to-follow advice on how to prevent, treat and care for illnesses and injuries while outdoors or travelling. Using accurate drawings and a step-by-step format, the authors describe how to effectively assess a situation and what actions to take. The book covers: * Planning and pre-departure tasks, expeditions with children, examining a casualty, medical kit design; * Resuscitation ABCs, loss of consciousness, heart attack, diabetic emergencies, choking; * High altitude sickness, hypothermia, dehydration, animals and insects, drowning; * Wounds and bleeding, neck and spinal injuries, abdominal injuries, fractures, treating pain; * Neurological and psychological disorders, infectious diseases, overdoses, poisoning; * Emergency chest decompression, injections. With its at-a-glance design, pack-ready format and waterproof cover, the Outdoor Medical Emergency Handbook is essential equipment for anyone travelling, whether camping with the family or making a solo assault on the Himalayas.

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À propos de l?auteur

Dr Spike Briggs, BSc, FRCA, is a Southampton-based specialist in intensive care medicine, an advisor on medical support for ocean yacht races and an instructor of advanced life support. Dr Campbell Mackenzie RD FRCP (Edin) is a retired Surgeon Commander, having served in the Royal Navy and Royal Naval Reserve. He has sailed all his life, and is an instructor and examiner for the RYA First Aid course and an advisor, instructor and examiner on medical aspects of yachting to the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency.

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Éditeur
Firefly Books Ltd
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1770857044
ISBN 13 
9781770857049
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
240
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9781554076017: Outdoor Medical Emergency Handbook: First Aid for Travellers, Backpackers, Adventurers

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ISBN 10 :  1554076013 ISBN 13 :  9781554076017
Editeur : Firefly Books Ltd, 2016
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