Product Description

The Wilderness First Responder is a comprehensive text for the recognition, treatment, and prevention of wilderness emergencies. It's essential reading for wilderness educators, trip leaders, guides, search and rescue groups, and anyone who works or plays far from definitive medical care.

This invaluble resource includes expert, step-by-step instructions, clear illustrations, and "Signs and Symptoms" sidebars designed to help you provide care in the wilderness--whenever you are more than an hour away from an ambulance or a hospital. You'll learn how to conduct a patient assessment, improvise when ideal materials are not at handy, and decide whether or not to evacuate a patient.

Learn how to assess and treat: airway obstructions, cardiac arrest, external and internal bleeding, shock, spine injuries, head injuries, chest injuries, abdominal injuries, fractures and dislocations, athletic injuries, soft-tissue injuries, cold- or heat-induced injuries, altitude sickness, insect bites and stings, diabetic emergencies, poisoning emergencies, allergic reactions and anaphylaxis, and much more.

Buck Tilton, co-founder of the Wilderness Medicine Institute of the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), wrote this book with more than a dozen medical professionals. The book represents more than a century and a half of combined experience in wilderness medicine, rescue, and education. Thouroughly updated and revised, this classic first-ever teaching manual for the "Wilderness First Responder" course is a must-have for anyone venturing into the backcountry.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #168828 in Books
• Brand: Globe
• Published on: 2004-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780762728015
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From the Back Cover
Wilderness First Responder is a comprehensive text for the recognition, treatment, and prevention of wilderness emergencies. It's essential reading for wilderness educators, trip leaders, guides, search and rescue groups, and anyone who works or plays far from definitive medical care.
This invaluable resource includes expert, step-by-step instructions, clear illustrations, and "Signs and Symptoms" sidebars designed to help you provide immediate care in the wilderness - whenever you are more than an hour away from an ambulance or a hospital. You'll learn how to conduct a patient assessment, improvise when ideal materials are not handy, and decide whether or not to evacuate a patient.
Learn how to assess and treat:
Airway obstructions
Cardiac arrest
External and internal bleeding
Shock
Spine injuries
Head injuries
Chest injuries
Abdominal injuries
Fractures and dislocations
Athletic injuries
Soft-tissue injuries
Cold- or heat-induced injuries
Altitude sickness
Insect bites and stings
Diabetic emergencies
Poisoning emergencies
Allergic reactions and anaphylaxis
and much, much more

About the Author
Buck Tilton is co-founder of the Wilderness Medicine Institute of the National Outdoor Leadership School in Lander, Wyoming, advisor to Western State College's Mountain Rescue Team, co-author of Medicine for the Backcountry, author of Rescue from the Backcountry, Avalanch Safety, Backcountry First Aid, and multiple other books on the outdoors. He is a member of the Outdoor Writers Association of America and a member of the American Medical Writers Association. He resides in Lander, Wyoming.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
It Could Happen to You

After two days of late summer hiking under heavy backpacks into the Bighorn Crags of Idaho, you and three friends near the point on the map where an unnamed lake supposedly abounds with fine fishing and pleasant campsites tucked into the shadows of a dense forest. Clouds that collected over the afternoon start to spill a thin shower, and you stop to put on rain gear. With only a short series of switchbacks separating you from your destination, your group arrives at the scene of an accident. A lone hiker sits against a tree, pack by his side, face wearing a grimace of pain. He complains of lower right leg pain, and the inability to bear weight on the injury. Your patient states he slipped on a wet rock while decending the trail. He wears a cotton T-shirt and shorts, and you note his lower right leg appears bloody and bruised. Occasional shivers disrupt his ability to speak.

Welcome to the world of wilderness medicine!

Customer Reviews

Wilderness First Responder, 2nd:
Having just finished the course for which this text was assigned, I can say that it was accurate as far as my instructor was concerned, save for a couple of instances. The helicopter approach zones may vary depending on whom one talks to. The CPR guidelines had changed, but then - one should be checking the current guidelines periodicly.
As far as that goes, refresher courses are a good idea anyway.
I found the book very readable and to the point.

Excellent Presentation of Wilderness Fisrt Aid
I was taking a Red Cross wilderness first aid class and wanted to see what other resources were available. I checked this book out from the local library. After reading through it, I wished the class had used it instead of the 2 we used. Each chapter begins with a situation, explains first aid for a condition (head,neck,back;bleeding;break;heat;etc) and concludes with how it should have been handled.

I purchased the book to use as a reference and to review, since like most things practice makes perfect.

We use it to teach WFR
This is a great book; well written, easy to follow and accepted as one of the top books for teaching Wilderness First Responder. We use it to teach our WFR course and advocate it strongly! One slight downfall is that it doesn't cover all of the topics recommended by the Wilderness Medical Society for WFR, however it's pretty darn close. It does have some great extras though for folks who work for organizations (trip leaders, etc.) and information on SOP's.
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