PART 1 Mountain Medicine
1. High-Altitude Medicine and Physiology
2. Avalanches
3. Lightning Injuries
PART 2 Cold and Heat
4. Thermoregulation
5. Accidental Hypothermia
6. Immersion Into Cold Water
7. Nonfreezing Cold-Induced Injuries
8. Frostbite
9. Polar Medicine
10. Pathophysiology of Heat-Related Illnesses
11. Clinical Management of Heat-Related llnesses
PART 3 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, Hazards, and Mitigation
PART 4 Injuries and Medical Interventions
16. Injury Prevention: Decision Making, Safety, and Accident Avoidance
17. Principles of Pain Management
18. Taping and Bandaging
19. Splints and Slings
20. Emergency Airway Management
21. Wilderness Trauma and Surgical Emergencies
22. Wound Management
23. Improvised Medicine in the Wilderness
24. Hunting and Fishing Injuries
25. Tactical Medicine
26. Combat and Casualty Care
27. Wilderness Orthopedics
28. The Eye in the Wilderness
29. Foot Problems and Care
30. Wilderness Dentistry
31. Management of Facial Injuries
32. Wilderness Cardiology
33. Wilderness Neurology
34. Chronic Diseases and Wilderness Activities
35. Mental Health in the Wilderness
PART 5 Rescue and Survival
36. Wilderness Emergency Medical Services and Response Systems
37. Search and Rescue
38. Technical Rescue, Self-Rescue, and Evacuation
39. Litters and Carries
40. Helicopter Rescue and Aeromedical Transport
41. Essentials of Wilderness Survival
42. Principles of Meteorology and Weather Prediction
43. Jungle Travel and Survival
44. Desert Travel and Survival
45. Whitewater Medicine and Rescue
46. Caving and Cave Rescue
PART 6 Animals, Insects, and Zoonoses
47. Protection from Blood-Feeding Arthropods
48. Mosquitoes and Mosquito-Borne Diseases
49. Malaria
50. Arthropod Envenomation and Parasitism
51. Tick-Borne Diseases
52. Spider Bites
53. Scorpion Envenomation
54. Bites by Venomous Reptiles in Canada, the United States, and Mexico
55. Envenoming and Injuries by Venomous and Nonvenomous Reptiles Worldwide
56. Bites and Injuries Infl icted by Wild and Domestic Animals
57. Bear Behavior and Attacks
58. Alligator and Crocodile Attacks
59. Wilderness-Acquired Zoonoses
60. Rabies
61. Emergency Veterinary Medicine
PART 7 Plants
62. Seasonal and Acute Allergic Reactions
63. Plant-Induced Dermatitis
64. Toxic Plant Ingestions
65. Toxic Mushroom Ingestions
66. Ethnobotany: Plant-Derived Medical Therapy
PART 8 Food and Water
67. Field Water Disinfection
68. Infectious Diarrhea From Wilderness and Foreign Travel
69. Nutrition, Malnutrition, and Starvation
70. Dehydration, Rehydration, and Hyperhydration
71. Living Off the Land
72. Seafood Toxidromes
73. Seafood Allergies
PART 9 Marine Medicine
74. A Brief Introduction to Oceanography
75. Submersion Injuries and Drowning
76. Emergency Oxygen Administration
77. Diving Medicine
78. Hyperbaric Medicine
79. Injuries From Nonvenomous Aquatic Animals
80. Envenomation by Aquatic Invertebrates
81. Envenomation by Aquatic Vertebrates
82. Aquatic Skin Disorders
83. Safety and Survival at Sea
PART 10 Travel, Environmental Hazards, and Disasters
84. Travel Medicine
85. Non-North American Travel and Exotic Diseases
86. Natural Disaster Management
87. Expedition Medicine
88. Global Humanitarian Medicine and Disaster Relief
89. Natural and Human-Made Hazards: Disaster Risk Management Issues
PART 11 Equipment and Special Knowledge
90. Global Crimes, Incarceration, and Quarantine
91. Wilderness Preparation, Equipment, and Medical Supplies
92. Ultrasound and Telemedicine in the Wilderness
93. Outdoor Clothing for the Wilderness Professional
94. Nonmedical Backcountry Equipment for Wilderness Professionals
95. Ropes and Knot Tying
96. Wilderness Navigation Techniques and Communication Methods
PART 12 Special Populations and Considerations
97. Training for Wilderness Adventure
98. Exercise, Conditioning, and Performance Training
99. Children in the Wilderness
100. Women in the Wilderness
101. Elders in the Wilderness
102. Persons With Special Needs and Disabilities
103. Wilderness and Endurance Events
104. Ranch and Rodeo Medicine
105. Wilderness Medicine Education
106. Medical Liability and Wilderness Emergencies
107. The Ethics of Wilderness Medicine
108. Native American Healing
PART 13 The Wilderness
109 The Changing Environment
110. Biodiversity and Human Health
111. Health Implications of Environmental Change
112. Wilderness Management and Preservation
113. Leave No Trace
114. Space Medicine: The New Frontier
Appendix Drug Stability in the Wilderness