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….
Wilderness Survival, Survival Psychology and Lost Person Behavior Darryl J. Macias Peter J. Leblanc Aaron Reilly INTRODUCTION It is important to understand what the psyche undergoes during a survival situation,…
Wilderness EMS Pharmacology Nancy Pietroski PHARMACOLOGY BASICS FOR WILDERNESS EMS One of the hallmarks of EMS (the formal delivery of health care in the field) versus ad hoc first aid…
Psychological First Aid and Stress Injuries Laura McGladrey INTRODUCTION Few responders travel through their careers without being deeply affected by a stressful event or experiencing the cumulative effects of responding…
Wilderness Event Medicine Linda Laskowski-Jones Michael J. Caudell Richard B. Bounds Chelsea A. Dymond Seth C. Hawkins Lawrence J. Jones Jennifer M. Starling David S. Young INTRODUCTION Wilderness event medicine…
Wilderness EMS Equipment Carl Weil INTRODUCTION Once we leave home and maintained roads, we are probably entering wilderness or “out of doors.” We are now hours or days or even…
