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- Authors: Josephine Tetley
Description
Revised for its second edition to include the latest national and international guidelines, the Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine continues to be the essential resource forexpedition medics and all well-informed travellers, including gap-year students. Clear and concise, readers can rely on this handbook to provide the knowledge and practical advice they need. It enables efficient preparation and planning before the journey, advises on camp logistics, risk management, and medical problems during the trip, as well as highlighting rare but important risks to those visiting remote areas. Focusing on preventative measures, the handbook also contains chapters dealing with crisis management, emergency care, and evacuation from challenging environments.
Reviews
Now in its 6th edition this book is an excellent introduction to core immunological knowledge as well as a revision text…This book should appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students of medical, nursing and biological sciences. (G.J.Ebrahim, December 2010)
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