General Management of Trauma in the Wilderness Benjamin Smith Bryan E. Bledsoe Paul Nicolazzo INTRODUCTION The management of trauma in the out-of-hospital environment involves rapid identification and stabilization of life-threatening…
Management of Infectious Diseases PART 2: General Infectious Diseases in the Wilderness Environment Christopher Davis Howard K. Mell INTRODUCTION Treatment of infectious diseases has become a routine practice in medicine….
Management of Infectious Diseases PART 1: Infectious Diseases Associated With Wilderness Environments FRANKLIN R. HUBBELL LEE FRIZZELL INTRODUCTION The purpose of this chapter is to: Understand the risks of exposure…
Management of Animal Bites and Envenomation Benjamin N. Abo INTRODUCTION TO NONVENOMOUS ANIMAL BITES The world has been co-inhabited by a wide variety of animals since the dawn of time….
Management of Lightning Injuries and Severe Storms R. Darrell Nelson HENDERSON McGinnis INTRODUCTION Lightning and severe storms are natural weather phenomena occurring daily across our entire planet. Because no single…
Management of Diving Injuries James Chimiak Peter Buzzacott INTRODUCTION Diving medical emergencies are among the most rewarding calls to which emergency medical services (EMS) personnel are summoned. The responder must…
Management of Drowning Justin Sempsrott INTRODUCTION Water covers more than 70% of the earth and can be beautiful, fun, and life sustaining. But, for as long as there have been…
Management of Altitude Illnesses Ken Zafren INTRODUCTION Acute high altitude illnesses range from acute mountain sickness (AMS), which is merely unpleasant, to high altitude cerebral edema (HACE) and high altitude…
Management of Heat Illnesses Tod Schimelpfenig Gates Richards Jr Shana Tarter INTRODUCTION The wilderness emergency medical services (WEMS) provider will assess and treat overt heat illness, as well as underlying…
Management of Cold Injuries Linda Laskowski-Jones Lawrence J. Jones INTRODUCTION TO COLD INJURIES Wilderness emergency medical services (WEMS) providers are exposed to a wide range of weather and environmental conditions….
