Wilderness Medicine

Training Manual - Wilderness Medicine (435 Pages)

Chapter 1 - Mountain Safety (Summer)
Chapter 2 - Nutrition
Chapter 3 - Wilderness Patient Assessment
Chapter 4 - High-Altitude Illnesses
Chapter 5 - Heat Illnesses
Chapter 6 - Combat Casualty Care
Chapter 7 - Burn Management
Chapter 8 - Hypothermia / Rewarming
Chapter 9 - Submersion Incidents
Chapter 10 - Wilderness Orthopaedic / Trauma Injuries
Chapter 11 - Reptile and Arthropod Envenomation Bites and Stings
Chapter 12 - Freezing and Near Freezing Tissue Injuries
Chapter 13 - Land Navigation Review
Chapter 14 - Search and Rescue Management
Chapter 15 - Triage
Chapter 16 - Preventive Medicine and Water Purification

Appendix A - Survival Techniques

Requirements for Survival
Survival Kit
Signalling and Recovery
Expedient Shelters and Fire
Survival Navigation
Water Procurement
Foraging Plants and Insects for Survival Uses
Survival Traps and Snares
Mountain Weather

Appendix B - Swift Water Rescue

Rescue Philosophy for Swiftwater Rescue Teams
Personal and Team Equipment
Swiftwater Terminology and Dynamics
Communications
Throw Bags and Foot Entanglements
Defensive Swimming and Ferry Angle
Feet-Wet Rescues and C-Spine Rolls
Boats and Boat Handling
Rope Systems and Boat Anchors
Vehicle Rescues
Stream Crossing

Appendix C

Rope Management
Nomenclature and Care of Mountaineering Equipment
Balance Climbing
Natural and Artificial Anchors
Sit Harness
Establishment of Rappel Points and Rappelling
Top Roping
Mountain Casualty Evacuations
One Rope Bridge
Summer Mountain Warfighting Load Requirements


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