A Comprehensive Guide to Wilderness & Travel Medicine

by Eric A. Weiss

How to manage medical emergencies when professional medical care is not available. First published in 1992 WILDERNESS & TRAVEL MEDICINE has been a staple in emergency first-aid kits sold worldwide by Adventure Medical Kits. With this fourth edition, Mountaineers Books and Adventure Medical Kits have partnered to release an updated, stand alone reference for anyone who ventures away from civilization. Topics include everything from CPR, shock and fractures to head, eye, and dental injuries, poisonous reactions, frostbite, hypothermia, heat illness, and much more.

Genres: Reference, Health, Nonfiction, Outdoors, Nature, Medical, Survival

198 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1997

Reviews

[Christopher Cagle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another re-read in preparation for an upcoming trip. Small enough to tote along with your FAK in the backcountry (but my old copy is falling apart because the glue in the spine cracked and now pages are falling out).

Very precise, short and sweet for treating all sorts of travel & wilderness ailments. Sometimes too short — I like more sciency detail — but then it would be too hefty to schlep through the bush. For details like that give “Wilderness First Aid,” by Tod Schimelpfenig & Linda Lindsey (National Outdoor Leadership School), or “Medicine for Mountaineering & Other Wilderness Activities,” edited by James Wilkerson, MD (The Mountaineers) a try.

[Jay · Rating 4 out of 5]

Incredible pocket reference medical book. Perfect size for inclusion in first aid kit.

[Joseph Hamilton · Rating 5 out of 5]

I keep this in my first aid kit with my hiking gear. I have tabbed and highlighted it for quicker reference. I don’t really need the tropical diseases, diving and marine sections and would have removed them but for concerns about ruining the binding. It covers the white knuckle lifesaving techniques that you normally don’t find in these type of books. I have also updated and augmented my first aid kit based on this book.

[Evan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I finally read the 200p book in my emergency med kit I take hunting. I feel both better that I know this stuff ahead of time instead of someday flipping through this as a reference, and worse that I am often alone by a half hour or more. If anything this has encouraged me to look into a WFA course.

Great book though, the Weiss Advice and When to Worry side bars are really helpful.

[Elizabeth Sims · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the real deal. Reading this through will do two things: Inform you as to what to do, and scare you enough to try REALLY HARD to stay out of trouble so you don't have to try to stop a sucking chest wound or splint an open fracture...

[Shayne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Empowering and downright terrifying. There are a lot of things that can go wrong in the wilderness, and this book is the antidote. (Well, knowledge is the antidote, but this book has lots of that.) Impressive.