Wilderness First Aid
Backcountry First Aid and Extended Care
Buck Tilton
If you are a serious outdoors person, you can't be too knowledgeable about wilderness first aid. You or someone else's life may depend on it someday!
This book is small but mighty; the perfect book to actually take with you on the trail.
Buck Tilton is director of the Wilderness Medicine Institute, Inc., in Pitkin, Colorado, advisor to Western State College's Mountain Rescue Team, co-author of Medicine for the Backcountry, author of many magazine articles on wilderness medicine and rescue, member of the Outdoor Writers Association of America and a member of the American Medical Writers Association.
Wilderness 911: A Step-By-Step Guide for Medical Emergencies and Improvised Care in the Backcountry
Written by an expert in the field, and published by Backpacker Magazine, Dr. Weiss gives good information covering the basics of first aid to more advanced wilderness medicine with straightforward, step-by-step instructions. Included are ways to improvise with the items you have at hand; duct tape, dental floss, and plastic wrap are some examples.
The easy-to-follow format walks you through "Signs and Symptoms" and "Treatment," and notes "When to Worry" signs for a broad spectrum of medical emergencies. "Tricks of the Trade" sidebars offer improvisational techniques, such as closing wounds with dental floss, hair, or duct tape; treating burns or creating an airtight dressing with honey and plastic wrap; relieving mouth bleeding with a tea bag, and much more.
Adventure Medical Kits Light and Fast Trail Kit
Adventure Medical Kits
No, not a book, but this is a good place to remind you that a good first aid kid is a must for any backpack.
Comprehensive Guide to Wilderness & Travel Medicine
Eric A. Weiss, M.D.
And excellent, easy-to-understand book that is small enough to take with you in your backpack, kayak, or glove box. The main thing I appreciate about this book is that it acknowledges that you don't have all kinds of resources to depend on in the wilderness, so it provides you with great-improvised techniques when your supplies are very limited.
Wilderness First Responder: A Text for the Recognition, Treatment, and Prevention of Wilderness Emergencies
Buck Tilton, Frank Hubbell
You will find expert, step-by-step instructions, clear illustrations, and "Signs and Symptoms" sidebars designed to help you provide care in wilderness and urban settings - whenever you are more than an hour away from an ambulance or a hospital. You'll learn about patient assessment and patient evacuation and strengthen your ability to improvise when ideal materials are not at hand. Buck Tilton, co-founder of the Wilderness Medicine Institute, wrote The Wilderness First Responder with the assistance of more than a dozen medical professionals. It represents more than a century and a half of combined experience in wilderness medicine, rescue, and education.
The Wilderness First Responder is a must-have for anyone who may be responsible for the care and safety of self and/or others when immediate access to a hospital is delayed.
Wilderness Medicine, Beyond First Aid, 5th Edition
William Forgey
Another perfect book to take with you on the trail—where it obviously makes the most sense to be in your possession! This books takes you much further in providing information on what to do if you don't have medical assistance within any reasonable amount of time and NEED to take care the problem NOW!
This illustrated text is essential reading for anyone from trip leaders, guides, and search and rescue groups to EMTs, paramedics, and physicians who must provide immediate care when access to a medical facility is difficult or impossible. Learn how to survey, assess, and stabilize the victim and the medical situation, what questions to ask to gain necessary vital information, how to manage physical symptoms as well as care for wounds and orthopedic injuries and much more.
