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Expedition and Wilderness Medicine

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ISBN-10: 0521868734

ISBN-13: 9780521868730

Edition: 2008

Authors: Gregory H. Bledsoe, Michael J. Manyak, David A. Townes

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With an increase in visits to remote and dangerous locations around the world, the number of serious and fatal injuries and illnesses associated with these expeditions has markedly increased. Medical personnel working in or near such locations are not always explicitly trained in the management of unique environmental injuries, such as high-altitude sickness, the bends, lightning strikes, frostbite, acute dehydration, venomous stings and bites, and tropical diseases. Many health care professionals seek training in the specialty of wilderness medicine to cope with the health risks faced when far removed from professional care resources, and the American College of Emergency Medicine has…    
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Book details

List price: $245.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/3/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 772
Size: 8.82" wide x 11.30" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 5.786
Language: English

Dr Gregory H. Bledsoe is a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the founder and CEO of ExpedMed. After completing medical school and residency at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Dr Bledsoe spent five years on faculty at the Johns Hopkins University, completing a fellowship in international emergency medicine and a master's in public health. He has worked as a field physician and medical consultant all over the world, served as an instructor and medical consultant for the United States Secret Service, and escorted presidents William Clinton and George W. Bush on trips to Africa as a personal physician. Most recently,…    

Dr Michael J. Manyak is Vice President for Medical Affairs for Cytogen Corporation. He is also a professor of Urology, Engineering Microbiology, and Tropical Medicine at The George Washington University and on staff at the Center for Prostate Disease Research at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Dr. Manyak is a medical advisor to several field exploration organizations, was selected as a Fellow National of The Explorers Club in 1992, and received their Sweeney Medal in 2004. His column on Expedition Medicine currently appears in Explorer's Journal.

Dr David A. Townes is an associate professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine and Medical Director of Adventuremed in Seattle, Washington. He received his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts and completed his residency in emergency medicine, a fellowship in international emergency medicine and earned a diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene at the University of London. Dr Townes has worked as an onsite physician and medical consultant in remote and dangerous locations around the world, including Costa Rica and Antarctica.

Expedition Planning
The expedition physician
Assessing expedition needs
Expedition medical kit
Immunizations
Legal considerations during expedition planning
Travel safety
Nutritional support for expeditions
Water safety
Special considerations
Communications planning for the expedition medical officer
Minimizing risk on an expedition
The expedition returns
Expeditions in Unique Environments
Tactical and protective medicine
Hostile geopolitical environments
Aerospace medicine
Polar medicine
Tropical medicine for expeditions
Medicine in subterranean environments
High-altitude medicine
Medicine at sea
Event medicine
Telemedicine in evolution - implications for expeditionary medicine
Dive medicine
Illness and Injuries on Expeditions
General medical
Traveler's diarrhea
Malaria
Animal attacks
Envenomations
Hazardous marine life
Toxicology
Environmental injuries
Penetrating and explosive wounds
Drowning and submersion injury
Trauma resuscitation
Wound care
Expedition eye injuries
Dental emergencies
Foot injuries
Expedition orthopedics
Expedition self-rescue and evacuation
Aeromedical evacuations