Wilderness First Aid: A Pocket Guide (Ragged Mountain Press Pocket Guides) - Softcover

Gill, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071379622 ISBN 13: 9780071379625

Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2002

Synopsis

Like a seasoned outfitter for hire (at a fraction of the cost), Ragged Mountain Pocket Guides give beginners the straightforward, reassuring advice they need for a successful first foray in the field. In a medical emergency, nothing is more reassuring than clear, professional advice. Paul Gill, a member of the Wilderness Medical Society and a longtime columnist for Outdoor Life magazine, offers clear explanations to a broad range of problems, followed by step-by-step instructions and details on the latest treatment strategies for all types of common outdoor injuries. Because he understands the dynamics of outdoor injuries, Gill writes simply and directly in terms a layperson can understand. Practical, packable, and positive, Wilderness First Aid covers more than 100 common injuries, easily identified by symptom. Wilderness First Aid offers proven advice from a board-certified emergency medicine specialist. No other portable book is as thorough. As with other titles in the Ragged Mountain Pocket Guide series, Wilderness First Aid is designed to fit easily in backpack or pocket, and it presents information so readers can find it quickly. With a weather-resistant cover, it is a natural purchase for anyone who hikes, backpacks, kayaks or otherwise spends time outside.

About this title

About the Author

Paul G. Gill, Jr., M.D. is a board-certified emergency medicine specialist and a member of the Wilderness Medical Society. His outdoor medicine column appeared for many years in Outdoor Life. Gill is author of The Onboard Medical Handbook: First Aid and Emergency Medicine Afloat. HOMETOWN: Middlebury, Vermont

From the Back Cover

Like having a trusted guide at your side

Invaluable, simple, and eminently practical, "Wilderness First Aid: A Ragged Mountain Press Pocket Guide" is all you need to keep you safe and healthy in the outdoors. Emergency medicine specialist Paul Gill provides expert advice on identifying potential problems--made easy with his helpful symptom diagnosis charts--and offers on-the-go treatment for everything from blisters and poison ivy to fractures and snake bites.

"Full of functional wilderness advice. . . . Gill helps prepare you to take care of yourself and your companions."--"Backpacker"

"An extremely practical book for quick reference."--"Wilderness Medicine Newsletter"

Pack It And "Go."

Edition details

• Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0071379622
• ISBN 13: 9780071379625
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160