Toxic Plant Ingestions
Chapter 64 Toxic Plant Ingestions Kimberlie A. Graeme For online only figures, please go to www.expertconsult.com Over 63,000 plant exposures were reported to 61 American poison control centers in 2008,…
EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Immersion Into Cold Water
Chapter 6 Immersion Into Cold Water Gordon G. Giesbrecht, Alan M. Steinman For online-only figures and videos, please go to www.expertconsult.com The authors of this chapter hail from two different…
Lightning Injuries
Chapter 3 Lightning Injuries Mary Ann Cooper, Ronald L. Holle, Christopher J. Andrews, Ryan Blumenthal Historical Overview* For online-only figures and videos, please go to www.expertconsult.com Lightning has caused injuries…
Expedition Medicine
Chapter 87 Expedition Medicine Jon Dallimore, Nicholas P. Mason, James Moore For online-only figures, please go to www.expertconsult.com Historical Background The desire for exploration runs deep in the human spirit….
Litters and Carries
Chapter 39 Litters and Carries Donald C. Cooper, Timothy P. Mier For online-only figures, please go to www.expertconsult.com Every search and rescue event goes through a series of four consecutive…
Bites by Venomous Reptiles in Canada, the United States, and Mexico
Chapter 54 Bites by Venomous Reptiles in Canada, the United States, and Mexico Robert L. Norris, Jr., Sean P. Bush, Jennifer Cohen Smith For online-only figures, please go to www.expertconsult.com…
Space Medicine: The New Frontier
Chapter 114 Space Medicine The New Frontier Kira Bacal, Kieran Smart For online-only figures, please go to www.expertconsult.com Wilderness medicine is often about making do with less, and providing care…
Ultrasound and Telemedicine in the Wilderness
Chapter 92 Ultrasound and Telemedicine in the Wilderness N. Stuart Harris, Peter J. Fagenholz For online-only figures, please go to www.expertconsult.com In a remarkable departure from historic norms, modern wilderness…
Management of Facial Injuries
Chapter 31 Management of Facial Injuries Vicki Mazzorana Wilderness medicine is defined in terms of the amount of time that an individual is remote from definitive hospital-based care. This definition…
Avalanches
Chapter 2 Avalanches Colin K. Grissom, Martin I. Radwin, Dale Atkins, Scott E. McIntosh For online-only figures, please go to www.expertconsult.com An avalanche is a mass of snow that slides…
