Wilderness Medicine Book

Foreword - The Modern History of Wilderness Medicine

Part 1 - MOUNTAIN MEDICINE

High-Altitude Medicine

Avalanches

Lightning Injuries

Part 2 - COLD AND HEAT

Thermoregulation

Non-Freezing Cold Injuries

Accidential Hypothermia

Frostbite

Immersion into Cold Water

Polar Medicine

Pathophysiology of Heat-Related Illnesses

Clinical management of Heat-Related Illnesses

Part 3 BURNS, FIRE AND RADIATION

Wildland Fires - Dangers and Survival

Emergency Care of the Burned Victim

Exposure to Radiation from the Sun

Part 4 - INJURIES AND MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS

Injury Prevention

Principles of Pain Management

Emergency Airway Management

Wilderness Trauma and Surgical Emergencies

Improvisation in the Wilderness

Hunting and Other Weapons Injuries

Wilderness Orthopaedics

The Eye in the Wilderness

Wilderness Dentistry and Management of Facial Injuries

Part 5 - RESCUE AND SURVIVAL

Wilderness Emergency Medical Services and Response Systems

Search and Rescue

Litters and Carries

Aeromedical Transport

Survival in the Wilderness

Jungle Travel and Survival

White-water Medicine and Rescue

Cave Rescue

Part 6 - ANIMALS, INSECTS, AND ZOONOSES

Protection from Blood-Feeding Arthropods

Tick-Borne Diseases

Spider Bites

Scorpion Envenomation

North American Arthropod Envenomation and Parasitism

Non-North American Arthropod Envenomation and Parasitism

North American Reptile Bites

Non-North American Reptile Bites

Antivenins and Immunobiologicals - Immunotherapeutics of Envenomation

Bites and Injuries Inflicted by Domestic Animals

Bites and Injuries Inflicted by Feral Animals

Bear Behavior and Attacks

Wilderness-Acquired Zoonoses

Emergency Veterinary Medicine

Part 7 - PLANTS

Seasonal Allergies

Plant-Induced Dermatitis

Toxic Plant Ingestions

Mushroom Toxicity

Ethnobotany - Plant-Derived Medical Therapy

Part 8 - FOOD AND WATER

Field Water Disinfection

Infectious Diarrhea from Wilderness and Foreign Travel

Nutrition, Malnutrition, and Starvation

Seafood Toxidromes

Seafood Allergies

Part 9 - MARINE MEDICINE

Submersion Incidents

Diving Medicine

Emergency Oxygen Administration

Principles of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Injuries from Nonvenomous Aquatic Animals

Envenomation by Aquatic Invertebrates

Envenomation by Aquatic Vertebrates

Aquatic Skin Disorders

Survival at Sea

Part 10 - TRAVEL, ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS, AND DISASTERS

Travel Medicine

Non-North American Travel and Exotic Diseases

Natural Disaster Management

Natural and Human-Made Hazards - Mitigation and Management Issues

Part 11 - EQUIPMENT AND SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE

Wilderness Equipment and Medical Supplies

Wilderness Clothing

Lights, Lamps, Stoves, and Other Gear

Ropes and Knot Tying

Compass & Celestial Navigation

Part 12 - SPECIAL POPULATIONS AND CONSIDERATIONS

Children in the Wilderness

Women in the Wilderness

Elders in the Wilderness

Medical Liability and Wilderness Emergencies

The Ethics of Wilderness Medicine

The Changing Environment