Wilderness Medicine, w. DVD-ROM

MOUNTAIN MEDICINE
1. High Altitude Medicine
2. Avalanches
3. Lightning Injuries
COLD AND HEAT
4. Thermoregulation
5. Accidental Hypothermia
6. Immersion in Cold Water
7. Nonfreezing Cold-Induced Injuries
8. Frostbite
9. Polar Medicine
10. Pathophysiology of Heat-Related Illnesses
11. Clinical Management of Heat-Related Illnesses
BURNS, FIRE AND RADIATION
12. Wildland Fires: Dangers and Survival
13. Emergency Care of the Burned Victim
14. Exposure to Radiation from the Sun
15. Volcanic Eruptions
INJURIES AND MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS
16. Injury Prevention
17. Principles of Pain Management
18. Bandaging and Taping
19. Emergency Airway Management
20. Wilderness Trauma, Surgical Emergencies, and Wound Management
21. Improvisation in the Wilderness
22. Hunting and Other Weapons Injuries
23. Tactical Medicine and Combat Casualty Care
24. Wilderness Orthopaedics
25. The Eye in the Wilderness
26. Wilderness Dentistry and Management of Facial Injuries
27. Wilderness Cardiology
28. Wilderness Neurology
29. Chronic Diseases and Wilderness Activities
30. Mental Health in the Wilderness
RESCUE AND SURVIVAL
31. Wilderness Emergency Medical Services and Response Systems
32. Search and Rescue
33. Technical Rescue in the Wilderness Environment
34. Litters and Carries
35. Aeromedical Transport
36. Essential of Wilderness Survival
37. Jungle Travel and Survival
38. Desert Travel and Survival
39. Whitewater Medicine and Rescue
40. Caving and Cave Rescue
ANIMALS, INSECTS, AND ZOONOSES
41. Protection from Blood-Feeding Arthropods
42. Mosquitoes and Mosquito-Borne Diseases
43. Malaria
44. Arthropod Envenomation and Parasitism
45. Tick-Borne Diseases
46. Spider Bites
47. Scorpion Envenomation
48. Bites by Venomous Reptiles in the Americas
49. Bites by Venomous Snakes outside the Americas
50. Antivenoms and Immunobiologicals: Immunotherapeutics of Envenomation
51. Bites and Injuries Inflicted by

Dr. Paul S. Auerbach, FACEP, FAWM, is the Redlich Family Professor of Surgery in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is the world's leading expert on wilderness medicine and a prolific author. Dr. Auerbach holds his MD from Duke and completed his internship at Dartmouth and residency at UCLA. He is certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine. He has been recognized as a Hero of Emergency Medicine by the American College of Emergency Physicians and received the New Orleans Grand Isle Award for Science from the Academy of Underwater Arts and Sciences, the Founders Award from the Wilderness Medical Society, and the Outstanding Contribution in Education Award from the American College of Emergency Physicians, among others. Dr. Auerbach has served as a volunteer physician in Haiti, Nepal, and Guatemala.