Staying Safe: Backyard to Backcountry: An Outdoor Medical Handbook

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Learn basic first aid, as well as how to prevent and treat outdoor medical emergencies, from common illness and injury to catastrophe.

You want to enjoy the outdoors with family, friends, and even on your own. You dont want to fret about safety. Put your mind at ease with expert guidance from Patrick Brighton, M.D., FACS. Dr. Brighton has served as an emergency room surgeon, has managed mass-casualty situations, and has participated in several mountain rescues. Now, hes sharing his expertise with you in Staying Safe: Backyard to Backcountry.

Find out what preventative steps you can take to minimize your risk, whether youre mowing the yard, hiking with friends, or camping with children. Discover the recommended and the essential items to keep on handin case the worst should happenregardless of where you are, what youre doing, and how far you are from help. Dr. Brighton guides you through first-aid responses and treatments to a variety of wilderness illnesses, injuries, and emergency situationsfrom sunburn and toothache to appendicitis and heart attack.

Inside youll find:

• Information organized by type of injury, so you can quickly find what you need
• Basic techniques in first aid, as well as potentially life-saving treatments
• Easy-to-understand instructions that help you assess each situation and decide how to proceed
• Considerations for natures variable challenges, like limited resources, weather, victim/rescuer capabilities, and evacuation options
• Strategies based on the latest research from the American College of Surgeons, the American Heart Association, and Dr. Brightons decades of experience

Whether you encounter mild sickness or life-or-death conditions, you can be sure that youre getting sound advice from an expert in wilderness medicine. Plus, the book includes field notesreal stories from the field. So use Staying Safe: Backyard to Backcountryto prevent, to prepare, and in the event of a worst case scenario.

Author Bio

Patrick Brighton is a board-certified general and trauma surgeon. A Fellow in the American College of Surgeons for more than 20 years, he has evaluated and surgically managed thousands of critically injured trauma patients, including those from dozens of mass-casualty situations. An avid alpinist and ice climber, Dr. Brighton currently spends most of his free time as a member of the Ouray Mountain Rescue Team in Ouray, Colorado. Dr. Brighton also teaches wilderness medicine courses in the US and in South America.