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Medicine for the Backcountry
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.0252
EAN: 9780762705276
Edition: Third
ISBN: 0762705272
Label: Globe Pequot
Manufacturer: Globe Pequot
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: September 01, 1999
Publisher: Globe Pequot
Studio: Globe Pequot
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Editorial Review:
Directed at the layperson, this superbly useful book on wilderness medicine makes a fairly complicated subject easy to understand.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Good As Far As It Goes
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" ... Read More
Rating:  - A very well written book
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.
Rating: - Good introduction to wilderness first aid
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.
Rating: - A hiking and camping necessity.
A recommended take-along tote for any wilderness hiker; as is Buck Tilton and Frank Hubbell's third edition of Medicine For The Backcountry more specific to wilderness first aid treatments. From broken bones to heat and cold injuries, this tells how to make do until civilization is reached.
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