Description
Hikers, kayakers, skiers and mountaineers travel in environments far from the comforts of everyday life. Clean water is often in short supply and everything needed must be carried in your own pack. If something goes wrong, it can be a long time before help arrives.
This book is about healthcare with limited resources in inaccessible places – what we call Wilderness Medicine. Wilderness Medicine is a subject that is quite new in Sweden and encompasses more than traditional first aid.
The book will help you analyze the risks of the trip you are planning. How likely is it that something will happen? How long would it take for help to arrive?
You will learn the working principles and memory rules that rescue personnel use, effective treatments for injuries to different parts of the body, and how to assess common symptoms such as headaches and stomachaches and recognize more serious conditions that require immediate evacuation.
Other parts of the book address altitude sickness, diving medicine, febrile illnesses, water purification, burns, heatstroke, hypothermia, insect bites and more.
The author Olivia Kiwanuka is a doctor and researcher in neurosurgery. She has specialist qualifications in mountain medicine (DiMM) and diving medicine (EDTC/Swedish Armed Forces) and has trained both private individuals and other doctors in wilderness medicine, and as an expedition doctor she has helped both untrained beginners and professional adventurers achieve their goals safely.
