Product Description

Like a seasoned outfitter for hire (at a fraction of the cost), Ragged Mountain Pocket Guides give beginners the straightforward, reassuring advice they need for a successful first foray in the field. In a medical emergency, nothing is more reassuring than clear, professional advice. Paul Gill, a member of the Wilderness Medical Society and a longtime columnist for Outdoor Life magazine, offers clear explanations to a broad range of problems, followed by step-by-step instructions and details on the latest treatment strategies for all types of common outdoor injuries. Because he understands the dynamics of outdoor injuries, Gill writes simply and directly in terms a layperson can understand. Practical, packable, and positive, Wilderness First Aid covers more than 100 common injuries, easily identified by symptom. Wilderness First Aid offers proven advice from a board-certified emergency medicine specialist. No other portable book is as thorough. As with other titles in the Ragged Mountain Pocket Guide series, Wilderness First Aid is designed to fit easily in backpack or pocket, and it presents information so readers can find it quickly. With a weather-resistant cover, it is a natural purchase for anyone who hikes, backpacks, kayaks or otherwise spends time outside.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #421664 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

From the Back Cover

Like having a trusted guide at your side

Invaluable, simple, and eminently practical, Wilderness First Aid: A Ragged Mountain Press Pocket Guide is all you need to keep you safe and healthy in the outdoors. Emergency medicine specialist Paul Gill provides expert advice on identifying potential problems made easy with his helpful symptom diagnosis charts and offers on-the-go treatment for everything from blisters and poison ivy to fractures and snake bites.

"Full of functional wilderness advice. . . . Gill helps prepare you to take care of yourself and your companions."­­Backpacker

"An extremely practical book for quick reference."­­Wilderness Medicine Newsletter

Pack It And Go.

About the Author
Paul G. Gill, Jr., M.D. is a board-certified emergency medicine specialist and a member of the Wilderness Medical Society. His outdoor medicine column appeared for many years in Outdoor Life. Gill is author of The Onboard Medical Handbook: First Aid and Emergency Medicine Afloat.

Customer Reviews

Just what was needed
I would thoroughly recommend this book to anybody doing remote outdoor activities and expeditions anywhere in the world. All too often books of this ilk have been too bulky and non-durable to include in the expedition kit .... this is ideal. As a provider of remote environment first aid courses I recommend this to my clients. It tells you what we need to know, for the occasions when we & the casualty are cold, wet and stressed. Andy Sherriff.