Medicine for the Outdoors by Auerbach, Paul S. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover image Title page Table of Contents Dedication Copyright PREFACE INTRODUCTION PART ONE: General Information

Chapter 1: HOW TO USE THIS BOOK Chapter 2: BEFORE YOU GO

BE IN GOOD HEALTH BE PREPARED COMMON SENSE CONDITIONING AND ACCLIMATIZATION EQUIPMENT COMMUNICATION TRIP PLANS MEDICINES NUTRITION FLUID REQUIREMENTS DISASTER PREPAREDNESS “SIZING UP” THE SCENE

Chapter 3: GENERAL FIRST-AID PRINCIPLES

SECURE THE SCENE EVALUATE THE VICTIM

Chapter 4: MEDICAL DECISION-MAKING

PART TWO

Chapter 5: Major Medical Problems Chapter 6: AN APPROACH TO THE UNCONSCIOUS VICTIM

HELMET REMOVAL AIRWAY BREATHING CHECK FOR PULSES (CIRCULATION) PROTECT THE CERVICAL SPINE

Chapter 7: CHEST INJURY

BROKEN RIBS FLAIL CHEST PNEUMOTHORAX BRUISED LUNG TREATMENT FOR CHEST INJURIES

Chapter 8: SERIOUS LUNG DISORDERS

ASTHMA PULMONARY EMBOLISM HEART FAILURE (OFTEN CALLED “CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE”) CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE PNEUMONIA

Chapter 9: CHEST PAIN

ANGINA PECTORIS HEART ATTACK (ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION) RAPID HEART RATE NONCARDIAC CAUSES OF CHEST PAIN

Chapter 10: BLEEDING

TREATMENT FOR BLEEDING INTERNAL BLEEDING

Chapter 11: SHOCK Chapter 12: HEAD INJURY

LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS NO LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS LACERATIONS OF THE SCALP

Chapter 13: ALLERGIC REACTION

TREATMENT FOR AN ALLERGIC REACTION

Chapter 14: SEIZURE

TREATMENT FOR SEIZURE

Chapter 15: FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS

COMPARTMENT SYNDROME SPLINTS AND SLINGS SPECIFIC INJURIES

Chapter 16: AMPUTATION Chapter 17: BURNS

DEFINITIONS (Figure 93) TREATMENT FOR BURNS BURN PREVENTION

Chapter 18: INHALATION INJURIES

THERMAL INJURY SMOKE (CHEMICAL) INJURY AIR QUALITY INDEX (AQI) FOR PARTICLES ASPIRATION INJURY

Chapter 19: POISONING Chapter 20: ABDOMINAL PAIN

GENERAL EVALUATION PHYSICAL EXAMINATION EPIGASTRIUM RIGHT UPPER QUADRANT LEFT UPPER QUADRANT RIGHT LOWER QUADRANT LEFT LOWER QUADRANT LOWER ABDOMEN (CENTRAL) FLANK

Chapter 21: EMERGENCY CHILDBIRTH

COMPLICATED DELIVERIES

Chapter 22: DIABETES Chapter 23: STROKE Chapter 24: INFECTIOUS DISEASES

MALARIA YELLOW FEVER DENGUE FEVER CHIKUNGUNYA DISEASE WEST NILE VIRAL DISEASE RELAPSING FEVER TYPHOID FEVER LASSA FEVER SCHISTOSOMIASIS ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER COLORADO TICK FEVER LYME DISEASE EHRLICHIOSIS AND ANAPLASMOSIS BABESIOSIS TRICHINELLOSIS (TRICHINOSIS) LEPTOSPIROSIS TULAREMIA MENINGOCOCCAL DISEASE (INCLUDING MENINGITIS) RABIES

PART THREE

Chapter 25: Minor Medical Problems Chapter 26: GENERAL SYMPTOMS

UNCONSCIOUS (OR SEMICONSCIOUS) VICTIM FAINTING FATIGUE FEVER AND CHILLS FEVER IN A RETURNED TRAVELER COUGH COUGHING BLOOD DIZZINESS HICCOUGHS

Chapter 27: HEAD (ALSO EYE, EAR, NOSE, THROAT, AND MOUTH)

HEADACHE BELL’S PALSY EAR EYE NOSE THROAT MOUTH

Chapter 28: UPPER RESPIRATORY DISORDERS

COMMON COLD INFLUENZA BRONCHITIS HAY FEVER PLEURITIS

Chapter 29: DISORDERS OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT

DIARRHEA CONSTIPATION HEMORRHOIDS FLATUS HEARTBURN NAUSEA AND VOMITING VOMITING BLOOD ULCER DISEASE HEPATITIS

Chapter 30: SKIN DISORDERS

SUNBURN SUNSCREENS MELANOMA POISON IVY, SUMAC, AND OAK (GENUS TOXICODENDRON) RASHES INCURRED IN THE WATER HIVES HEAT RASH INTERTRIGO IMPETIGO CELLULITIS, INCLUDING METHICILLIN-RESISTANT Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) ABSCESS INGROWN TOENAIL FINGERTIP CRACKS PARONYCHIA FELON BLISTERS ATHLETE’S FOOT, RINGWORM, AND JOCK ITCH TINEA VERSICOLOR ONYCHOMYCOSIS DIAPER RASH LICE SCABIES CREEPING ERUPTION SHINGLES HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS GENITAL INFECTION FEVER BLISTERS

Chapter 31: MINOR BRUISES AND WOUNDS

BRUISES BLACK EYE BLOOD UNDER THE FINGERNAIL PUNCTURE WOUNDS IMPALED OBJECT SCRAPES CUTS (LACERATIONS) SKIN FLAPS AND AVULSIONS TAPING A WOUND CLOSED SEWING (SUTURING) A WOUND CLOSED STAPLING A WOUND CLOSED GLUING A WOUND CLOSED BANDAGING TECHNIQUES WOUND INFECTION ABSCESS (BOIL) SCALP LACERATION (CUT ON THE HEAD) FISHHOOK REMOVAL SPLINTER REMOVAL BLISTERS

Chapter 32: MUSCULOSKELETAL INJURIES

OVERUSE SYNDROMES ARTHRITIS BURSITIS VENOUS THROMBOSIS AND THROMBOPHLEBITIS BACK PAIN

Chapter 33: DISORDERS OF THE KIDNEYS, BLADDER, AND PROSTATE

BLADDER INFECTION KIDNEY INFECTION KIDNEY STONE BLOOD IN THE URINE ACUTE URINARY RETENTION PROSTATE INFECTION

Chapter 34: MALE GENITAL PROBLEMS

PAINFUL TESTICLE PENILE DISCHARGE

Chapter 35: PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCIES

ANXIETY PANIC HYPERVENTILATION DEPRESSION REACTION TO AN INJURY OR ILLNESS POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD)

PART FOUR: Disorders Related to Specific Environments

Chapter 36: INJURIES AND ILLNESSES DUE TO COLD

HYPOTHERMIA (LOWERED BODY TEMPERATURE) WHAT TO DO IF YOU FALL THROUGH THE ICE HOW TO ASSIST SOMEONE WHO HAS FALLEN THROUGH THE ICE WINTER STORM PREPAREDNESS FROSTBITE FROSTNIP IMMERSION FOOT (TRENCH FOOT) CHILBLAIN (PERNIO) RAYNAUD’S PHENOMENON HIVES INDUCED BY EXPOSURE TO COLD SNOWBLINDNESS

Chapter 37: INJURIES AND ILLNESSES DUE TO HEAT

BURN INJURIES HEAT ILLNESS (HYPERTHERMIA) HEAT EXHAUSTION AND HEATSTROKE MUSCLE CRAMPS HEAT SWELLING FAINTING AVOIDING HEAT ILLNESS

Chapter 38: WILDLAND FIRES

HIGH-RISK SITUATIONS STANDARD FIRE ENCOUNTER PRINCIPLES WHAT TO DO WHEN CAUGHT IN A WILDLAND FIRE HOW TO REPORT A FIRE CREATING A DEFENSIBLE SPACE MEDICAL CONSIDERATIONS CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING

Chapter 39: ALTITUDE-RELATED PROBLEMS

PREVENTION OF ALTITUDE-RELATED DISORDERS HIGH-ALTITUDE PULMONARY EDEMA HIGH-ALTITUDE CEREBRAL EDEMA ACUTE MOUNTAIN SICKNESS OTHER DISORDERS OF HIGH ALTITUDE

Chapter 40: SNAKEBITE

POISONOUS SNAKES NONPOISONOUS SNAKES

Chapter 41: HAZARDOUS AQUATIC LIFE

SHARKS BARRACUDAS MORAY EELS SPONGES JELLYFISH CORAL AND BARNACLE CUTS SEA URCHINS STARFISH CUCUMBERS BRISTLEWORMS CONE SNAILS (SHELLS) STINGRAYS CATFISH SCORPIONFISH SURGEONFISH OCTOPUSES SEA SNAKES SKIN RASHES CAUSED BY AQUATIC PLANTS (SEAWEED DERMATITIS) OR CREATURES (SEA BATHER’S ERUPTION, SWIMMER’S ITCH) POISONINGS FROM SEAFOOD

Chapter 42: INSECT AND ARTHROPOD BITES

BEES, SPIDERS, SCORPIONS, AND OTHER SMALL BITERS SPIDERS SCORPIONS MOSQUITOES BITING FLIES FLEAS CHIGGERS CENTIPEDES AND MILLIPEDES TICKS CATERPILLARS BEETLES SUCKING BUGS SKIN INFESTATION BY FLY LARVAE INSECT REPELLENTS LEECHES

Chapter 43: LIGHTNING STRIKE

LIGHTNING AVOIDANCE TORNADO AVOIDANCE WHAT TO DO IN AN EARTHQUAKE VOLCANOES SNOW AVALANCHES

Chapter 44: UNDERWATER DIVING ACCIDENTS AND DROWNING

AIR EMBOLISM DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS (THE “BENDS”) NITROGEN NARCOSIS EAR SQUEEZE SINUS SQUEEZE TOOTH SQUEEZE DROWNING (SUBMERSION/IMMERSION INTO LIQUID)

Chapter 45: ANIMAL ATTACKS

GENERAL TREATMENT SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS AVOIDANCE OF HAZARDOUS ANIMALS

Chapter 46: WILD PLANT AND MUSHROOM POISONING

MEDICAL HISTORY TREATMENT FOR POISONINGS COMMONLY INGESTED TOXIC PLANTS AND MUSHROOMS TOXICITY OF COMMON PLANTS

PART FIVE: Miscellaneous Information

Chapter 47: OXYGEN ADMINISTRATION

PRECAUTIONS

Chapter 48: WATER DISINFECTION Chapter 49: MOTION SICKNESS Chapter 50: FIRST-AID KITS

BASIC SUPPLIES GENERAL SUPPLIES WOUND CARE—PREPARATIONS AND DRESSINGS SPLINTING AND SLING MATERIAL EYE MEDICATIONS AND DRESSINGS DENTAL SUPPLIES TOPICAL SKIN PREPARATIONS NONPRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS PRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS (SELECT FROM THIS LIST, AND FROM INFORMATION THROUGHOUT THIS BOOK, WHAT YOU FEEL YOU MIGHT NEED; THE DRUGS LISTED ARE FOR EXAMPLE) ALLERGY KIT FOREST AND MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENTS AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS

Chapter 51: IMMUNIZATIONS

TETANUS POLIOVIRUS; DIPHTHERIA; PERTUSSIS (WHOOPING COUGH); MEASLES, MUMPS, RUBELLA (GERMAN MEASLES); CHICKENPOX; HAEMOPHILUS B; ROTAVIRUS SMALLPOX CHOLERA YELLOW FEVER MENINGOCOCCUS HERPES ZOSTER HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS HEPATITIS BUBONIC PLAGUE RABIES MALARIA TYPHOID FEVER TYPHUS FEVER INFLUENZA PNEUMOCOCCAL PNEUMONIA JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS LYME DISEASE PHYSICIANS ABROAD

Chapter 52: TRANSPORT OF THE INJURED VICTIM

LIFTING AND MOVING TECHNIQUES CARRIES AND LITTERS HELICOPTERS

Chapter 53: GROUND-TO-AIR DISTRESS SIGNALS Chapter 54: LOST PEOPLE Chapter 55: PROCEDURES

SUBCUTANEOUS INJECTION FISHHOOK REMOVAL SPLINTER REMOVAL RING REMOVAL ZIPPER REMOVAL KNOTS AND HITCHES

APPENDICES

COMMONLY USED DRUGS (MEDICATIONS) AND DOSES CONVERSION TABLES GUIDELINES FOR PREVENTION OF DISEASES TRANSMITTED VIA HUMAN BLOOD AND OTHER BODY FLUIDS GLOSSARY

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