Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine

Fully revised for its third edition, the Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine continues to be the essential resource for all expedition medics and well-informed travellers, as well as nurses, paramedics, medical students, and other expedition members travelling in remote, wilderness areas of the world.

Now containing more guidance about caving medicine, the third edition includes revised and additional illustrations and essential maps of the spread of diseases. Clear and concise, readers can rely on Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicineaa to provide the key knowledge and practical advice they need. It enables efficient preparation and planning before the journey, advises on camp logistics, risk management, and medical problems during the expedition, as well as highlighting rare but important risks to those visiting remote areas. Focusing on preventative measures, it also contains chapters dealing with crisis management, emergency care, and evacuation from challenging environments, with guidance about the obligations of a clinician joining an expedition, ethical approaches to such work, and medicine in various extreme environments.

This edition will give you the confidence and skills you need to travel to any extreme or remote environment. Incorporating the combined knowledge and experience of a team of experienced clinicians and expeditioners, this is a practical, easy-to-use guide to all aspects of expedition and wilderness medicine.

1. Expedition medicine
2. Preparations
3. Caring for people in the field
4. Ethics and responsibilities
5. Crisis management
6. Emergencies: diagnosis
7. Emergencies: trauma
8. Emergencies: collapse and serious illness
9. Treatment: skin
10. Treatment: head and neck
11. Treatment: dental
12. Treatment: chest
13. Treatment: abdomen
14. Treatment: limbs and back
15. Treatment: infectious diseases
16. Psychological and psychiatric problems
17. Risks from animals
18. Plants and fungi
19. Anaesthesia in remote locations
20. Cold climates
21. Mountains and high altitude
22. Inland and coastal waters
23. Offshore
24. Underwater
25. Hot, dry environments: deserts
26. Hot, humid environments: tropical forest
27. Caving
28. Medical kits