Medicine for the Backcountry

Medicine for the Backcountry

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  • Paperback
  • Edition: 3rd
  • Author: Buck Tilton, Frank Hubbell
  • Publisher: Globe Pequot
  • Release Date: September 1999
  • ISBN-10: 0762705272
  • ISBN-13: 9780762705276
  • List Price: $14.95

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Summary

When trouble strikes and your group is beyond the reach of 911, you're the one who has to help. Medicine for the Backcountry can prepare you for just about any major or minor medical emergency you might face in the outdoors. Using real-life anecdotes, step-by-step instructions, and clear illustrations, this invaluable guide shows you how to assess, manage, and care for: bone breaks and fractures, muscular injuries, heat and cold injuries, near drowning, spinal trauma, bites and stings and many other potential maladies. Each chapter also includes The Barehanded Principles - a point-by-point summary of the information you need to know to provide help in a hurry. Use Medicine for the Backcountry as both a practical handbook and a handy reference - and take it with you when your travels take you far from help.

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Just perfect!

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Thank you for having this book in your inventory. We are in the backwoods a great deal and I needed a guide that was small enough to carry, but comprehensive enough to be of value in the backwoods. This book is the best of its kind I have found. Thank you for your timeliness in sending the book and thank you for the book being in better than advertised condition. I will definately be checking the books you offer!

Great gift for the hiker/camper in your family

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I bought this for my back packing camper son. He gives it five stars. Since he/wife are now taking their two young children with them, he especially appreciated having a go to resource for medical questions. Practical approach to 'medicine in the field".

Good As Far As It Goes

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The authors are EMT's and have had wilderness experience. The book is similar to a number of other books on basic wilderness first aid but is lacking in at least a couple of areas. Various ways of making an improvised stretcher (litter) were not covered. Getting help and communicating with SAR is not covered. What is covered is all patient assessment and standard first aid as is protocol for EMT's. I was disappointed there wasn't more application to wilderness situations. "Medicine for the Outdoors" by Paul s. Auerbach is far more complete and deals better with the harsh realities you face with medical issues in the wilderness. I gave it 3 stars instead of 2 because it might be a starting place for someone with little experience in first aid. I would also like to see these types of books talk about prevention, at very least as an introduction to the topic.

A very well written book

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This book is written by a Mountain resquer and is so full of information you will want it in youre library for future refrence and continue to read it so you can keep absorbing information out of this book.

Good introduction to wilderness first aid

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Medicine for the Backcountry is a great general-purpose guide to wilderness medicine in the U.S. and Canada. For anyone needing to educate themselves on wilderness first aid, or in need of a book to take along on an extended trip, I can highly recommend it. I give it four instead of five stars only because it doesn't cover some of the more esoteric third-world illnesses and treatments.