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Pocket First Aid and Wilderness Medicine (Cicerone Guides)

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Excellent, concise and readable and does not weigh down your rucksack. Dont go into the wilderness without one.

Sadly, this book is a very poor first aid book for the average wilderness adventurer, rather, it is written as if you have a strong grasp of medical terminilogy and practices. I was expecting something a little less tutorialish. for example, it details the different types of hypothermia and their associated causes and treatment, however, it also tells you to refer back to a figure from 5 chapters previous, tells you to use the treatment you read in another chapter, and uses alot of medical jargon, like the latin name for type 1 of hypothermia which I am sure would add thrills and chills to your story when you are back at the bar telling it for the 100th time, however, they conserved a ton of space by making you roam the book re-reading things but opt to put in useless information like the latin terms only doctors probably care to know, or can use as information, in some cases, it tells you to call in a medivac chopper as part of the treatment...so, if you have an injured person, and you have access to a medivac, why would you risk treating them unless you actually knew what you were doing and didn't need a little book to tell you what to do? the wrong audiences is targeted with the title of this book.