Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine

Description

• Provides comprehensive coverage to enable efficient planning and preparation before your journey
• Gives practical advice on camp logistics, risk management, and medical issues
• Chapters include crisis management, emergency care, and evacuation from challenging environments
• Written and edited by a team of skilled practitioners and expeditioners, with extensive support from the Royal Geographical Society, to give clear, practical advice from their years of experience

New to this edition

• Fully revised and updated, based on latest national and international guidance
• Provides an increased emphasis on medicine in various extreme environments
• Includes additional guidance regarding the obligations and ethical considerations of clinicians joining an expedition
• Revised and additional illustrations, including new colour plates and algorithms

Revised for its second edition to include the latest national and international guidelines, the Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine is the essential resource for the clinician planning to support travellers in an expedition or wilderness environment. Clear and concise, clinicians can rely on this handbook to provide the knowledge and practical advice they need. It enables efficient preparation and planning before the journey, advises on camp logistics, risk management, and medical problems during the trip, as well as highlighting rare but important risks to those visiting remote areas. Focusing on preventative measures, the handbook also contains chapters dealing with crisis management, emergency care, and evacuation from challenging environments.

Now containing more guidance about the obligations of a clinician joining an expedition, and the ethical approach to such work, the second edition of the Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine also provides an increased emphasis on medicine in various extreme environments. With revised and additional illustrations, more colour plates, and an increased use of important algorithms, this edition will give you the confidence and skills you need to travel to any extreme or remote environment. Updated with the support of the Royal Geographical Society, and incorporating the combined knowledge and experience of a team of experienced clinicians and expeditioners, this is a practical, easy-to-use guide to all aspects of expedition and wilderness medicine.

Anyone who might ever step into the natural countryside, away from tarmac or gravelled paths, to seek the freedom and beauty of unspoiled nature needs to be aware of the content of this book, to enhance their enjoyment, and minimise the risk of pursuing adventurous travel.

Readership: Expedition doctors, nurses and paramedics, expedition medical officers and all medics travelling to remote areas.

Contents

1: Expedition medicine
2: Preparations
3: Caring for people in the field
4: Ethics and responsibilities
5: Crisis management
6: Emergencies - diagnosis
7: Emergencies - trauma
8: Emergencies - serious illness and collapse
9: Treatment - skin
10: Treatment - head and neck
11: Treatment - dental
12: Treatment - chest
13: Treatment - abdomen
14: Treatment - limbs and back
15: Treatment - infectious diseases
16: Psychological and psychiatric problems
17: Risks from animals
18: Plants and fungi
19: Anaesthesia in remote locations
20: Cold climates
21: Mountains and high altitude
22: Inland and coastal waters
23: Offshore
24: Underwater
25: Hot dry environments - deserts
26: Hot humid environments - tropical forest
27: Caving
28: Medical kits