NOLS Wilderness Medicine (7th Edition)
by Tod Schimelpfenig · Stackpole Books
The field text used in NOLS and Wilderness Medicine Institute courses, covering patient assessment, shock, soft-tissue and orthopaedic injury, and environmental emergencies. Teaches the judgement needed when evacuation is hours away, including when resuscitation is and is not indicated.
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