Emergency Medical Procedures for the [Backpacker] Outdoors

Abstract: A handy pocket-book first aid guide for skiing, backpacking, canoeing, kayaking, Camping, fishing, hunting, and climbing. Illustrated with flow-chart style decision making guide.

Keywords: book review, health, survival, emergency medical, first aid, injuries, illness, backpacking, injury, emergencies, camping.

Title: Emergency Medical Procedures for the [Backpacker] Outdoors Author: Gordon A. Benner, Lance Feild, Richard E. Church Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press Date Published: March 1988 ISBN: 0897320514 LOCN: RC88.9.H55E46 1987 Dewey: 616.02/52/0247965 19 Pages: 119

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CONTENTS

• Introduction
• Contents
• Before You Go
• Basic Medical Supplies
• Artificial Respiration
• Choking (Heimlich Maneuver)
• CPR (1 rescuer)
• CPR (2nd rescuer trained in CPR)
• CPR (Infants)
• Abdominal Pain
• Chest Pain
• Convulsion (Including Epileptic Seizure)
• Diabetic Emergencies
• Fever
• Headache
• Nausea & Vomiting
• Nosebleed
• Toothache or Lost or Broken Tooth
• Unconsciousness (Lasting more than a few minutes)
• Abdominal Injury
• Animal Bites
• Back & Neck Injuries
• Bruise
• Burns (Including Lightning, Chemical Burns, and Sunburn)
• Chemical Poisoning
• Chest Injury
• Minor Cuts (Including Rope Burns)
• Dislocations
• Chemical Burns of the Eyes
• Foreign Object in Eye (With no injury or bleeding)
• Eye Injury
• Fishhook Removal
• Food Poisoning
• Fractures
• Severe Head Injury
• Insect Stings
• Poison Ivy, Oak, & Sumac
• Snakebite
• Recognize common poisonous snakes
• Spider Bites or Scorpion Stings
• Recognize poisonous spiders
• Sprain or Strain
• Tick Removal
• Deep Wound
• Cold Exposure
• Frostbite
• Heat Exhaustion / Heat Cramps
• Heatstroke
• High Altitude Illness
• Getting Help
• Contents

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DATA

Uniform Title: Emergency medical procedures for the backpacker.
Title:         Emergency medical procedures for the outdoors /
                  developed in consultation with Gordon A. Benner, Richard E.
                  Church, Lance Feild.
Published:     Birmingham, Ala. : Menasha Ridge Press, c1987.
Description:   1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 23 cm.
LC Call No.:   RC88.9.H55E46 1987
Dewey No.:     616.02/52/0247965 19
ISBN:          0897320514 (pbk.) : $4.95
Notes:         Reprint. Originally published: Emergency medical
                  procedures for the backpacker. Darien, CT : Patient Care
                  Publications, Special Publications Group, c1979.
Subjects:      Backpacking injuries -- Outlines, syllabi, etc.
               First aid in illness and injury -- Outlines,
                  syllabi, etc.
               Medical emergencies -- Outlines, syllabi, etc.
               Camping -- popular works.
               Emergencies -- popular works.
               First Aid.
Other authors: Benner, Gordon A.
               Church, Richard E., 1920-
               Feild, Lance, 1927-
Control No.:   87018508 //r94

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