Expedition and Wilderness Medicine

This book covers everything a prospective field physician needs to prepare for when beginning a wilderness expedition.

Part I. Expedition Planning: 1. The expedition physician Howard J. Donner; 2. Assessing expedition needs William W. Forgey; 3. Expedition medical kit William W. Forgey; 4. Immunizations David A. Townes and Russell McMullen; 5. Legal considerations during expedition planning Kristin Larson and Tracey Knutson; 6. Travel safety Michael VanRooyen; 7. Nutritional support for expeditions H. Wayne Askew; 8. Water safety Howard Backer; 9. Special considerations Blair Dillard Erb, Sr.; 10. Communications planning for the expedition medical officer Christian Macedonia; 11. Minimizing risk on an expedition Michael J. Manyak; 12. The expedition returns Randy Hyer; Part II. Expeditions in Unique Environments: 13. Tactical and protective medicine Nelson Tang, Kevin B. Gerold and Richard Carmona; 14. Hostile geopolitical environments Michael VanRooyen; 15. Aerospace medicine Richard S. Williams and Marc A. Shepanek; 16. Polar medicine Desmond Lugg and Jeff Ayton; 17. Tropical medicine for expeditions Peter Hotez and David M. Parenti; 18. Medicine in subterranean environments William Hamilton; 19. High-altitude medicine Luanne Freer and Peter H. Hackett; 20. Medicine at sea Joyce M. Johnson; 21. Event medicine David A. Townes; 22. Telemedicine in evolution - implications for expeditionary medicine William P. Wiesmann, M. Nicole Draghic and L. Alex Pranger; 23. Dive medicine Craig Cook; Part III. Illness and Injuries on Expeditions: 24. General medical J. Lee Jenkins, Edbert B. Hsu, Italo Subbaro, Kisha Moore and Alex Vu; 25. Traveler's diarrhea R. Bradley Sack; 26. Malaria Christian Ockenhouse; 27. Animal attacks Jenny Hargrove and Luanne Freer; 28. Envenomations Michael Callahan; 29. Hazardous marine life Craig Cook; 30. Toxicology Timothy B. Erickson and Janet Y. Lin; 31. Environmental injuries Kenneth Kamler; 32. Penetrating and explosive wounds Ian S. Wedmore and John G. McManus; 33. Drowning and submersion injury Bradley Winters; 34. Trauma resuscitation Elliot Haut and Rajan Gupta; 35. Wound care James M. Marinucci; 36. Expedition eye injuries Stanley Spielman; 37. Dental emergencies Martin Nweeia; 38. Foot injuries John VonHoff and Zak Weis; 39. Expedition orthopedics Alan Gianotti and S. V. Mahadevan; 40. Expedition self-rescue and evacuation Ken Zafren and Urs Wiget; 41. Aeromedical evacuations Gene DeLaune.