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    Outdoor Medical Emergency Handbook

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    £16.95
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    ISBN: 9781770857049
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    AuthorBRIGGS SPIKE
    Pub Date28/03/2016
    BindingPaperback
    Pages240
    Publisher: Firefly Books Ltd
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    The essential colour-illustrated guide to emergency first aid and medical procedures away from home - for travellers, backpackers and outdoors enthusiasts.

    The essential guide to emergency medical procedures away from home. The Outdoor Medical Emergency Handbook provides easy-to-follow advice on how to prevent, treat and care for illnesses and injuries while outdoors or travelling. Using accurate drawings and a step-by-step format, the authors describe how to effectively assess a situation and what actions to take. The book covers: * Planning and pre-departure tasks, expeditions with children, examining a casualty, medical kit design; * Resuscitation ABCs, loss of consciousness, heart attack, diabetic emergencies, choking; * High altitude sickness, hypothermia, dehydration, animals and insects, drowning; * Wounds and bleeding, neck and spinal injuries, abdominal injuries, fractures, treating pain; * Neurological and psychological disorders, infectious diseases, overdoses, poisoning; * Emergency chest decompression, injections. With its at-a-glance design, pack-ready format and waterproof cover, the Outdoor Medical Emergency Handbook is essential equipment for anyone travelling, whether camping with the family or making a solo assault on the Himalayas.