Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, An Issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Drs. Eric Weiss and Douglas Sward have assembled an expert team of authors on the topic of Wilderness and Environmental Medicine. Article topics include: Advances in the Prevention and Treatment of High Altitude Illness; Out-of-hospital Evaluation and Treatment of Accidental Hypothermia; Arthropod Envenomation in North America; North American Snake Envenomation; Cutting Edge Management of Frostbite;Updates in Decompression Illness; Marine Envenomation; Is There a Doctor on Board: Medical Emergencies at 40,000 Feet; Translating Battlefield Medicine to Wilderness Medicine; The Application of Point-of-Care Ultrasound to Austere Environments; Wilderness EMS Systems; Preparing for International Travel & Global Medical Care; and Medical-legal Issues in Expedition and Wilderness Medicine.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas G Sward, Douglas G. Sward, Sward Douglas G., Eric A Weiss, Eric A. Weiss, Weiss Eric A.
• Publisher: Elsevier Health Science
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.05.2017
• EAN: 9780323528368
• ISBN: 978-0-323-52836-8
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 540 g
• Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Emergency Medicine, Accident & emergency medicine, Accident and emergency medicine