The scouting guide to wilderness first aid : more than 200 essential skills for medical emergencies in remote environments
2019
Book
"In Scouting's Guide to First Aid, current Scouts, Scout alumni, and readers interested in the outdoors are provided with time-tested advice on how to safely identify, harvest, and use edible wild plants. Some practical tips include: how to triage, assess, and identify medical emergencies; what to include in a first aid kit for your home; when to seek help for health emergencies; how to safely move a sick or injured person; how to perform CPR and use an automatic external defibrillator; what the proper procedures are for broken bones, hypothermia, burns, and sprains; and so much more!"--Page [4] of cover.
Item Details
ISBN: 9781510739710
Description: xiv, 164 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm
Other Title: Scouting guide to wilderness first aid : more than two hundred essential skills for medical emergencies in remote environments
Notes:
- "A licensed product of BSA"--Cover.
- "The Boy Scouts of America."
Contents:
- Assessment system/ CPR
- Abdominal pain
- Allergic reactions and anaphylaxis
- Altitude illness
- Blisters
- Burns
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
- Chest pain
- Chest trauma
- Dental pain
- Diabetic emergencies
- Drowning
- Eyes, ears, nose, and throat
- Female genital problems
- Frostbite
- Head injury
- Heat illness
- Hypothermia
- Infectious disease
- Lightning
- Lung problems
- Male genital problems
- Muskuloskeletal injuries
- Nervous system
- Skin irritation
- Toxins, bites, and stings
- Trauma
- Wound care.
Control Number: 2751238
Publisher: New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, [2019]