商品簡介
Isaac, a physician assistant, instructor, curriculum director, and former fire fighter, EMT, and search and rescue team leader, and Johnson, an emergency physician and teacher, present a textbook on wilderness and rescue medicine for wilderness first responders and emergency medical technicians, as well as other medical personnel. Focusing on practical and useful information, it covers the principles of physiology and wilderness rescue; patient assessment; critical body systems; basic and advanced life support and treatment of allergy and anaphylaxis, severe asthma, and diabetes and hypoglycemia; pain management and trauma; backcountry medicine; and environmental medicine, including altitude sickness, cold injuries, toxins and envenomations, and water-related and lightning injuries. Case studies and protocols are included. Annotation Ac2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
