Wilderness First Aid: A Pocket Guide [Paperback]

Paul G. Gill (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0071379622 | ISBN-13: 978-0071379625 | Publication Date: December 13, 2001 | Edition: 1

New in the Ragged Mountain Press Pocket Guides

A practical, packable source of clear, reassuring first aid advice, Wilderness First Aid is the only such guide written by a board-certified emergency medicine specialist.Wilderness First Aid presents 125 outdoor medical emergencies and succinct, step-by-step treatment advice. Arranged by symptom for easy access, treatments cover everything from blisters to broken bones, heat stroke to hypothermia, snake bites to poison ivy. Direct and to the point, Wilderness First Aid's spread-by-spread design gets readers where they need to be quickly­­making calm, informed treatment decisions.

Editorial Reviews

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. He wrote an outdoor medicine column for Outdoor Life for many years and is the author of The Onboard Medical Handbook.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press; 1 edition (December 13, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071379622
• ISBN-13: 978-0071379625
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 4.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,731,759 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Practical, but hard to read in a pinch, July 25, 2005

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Calamity Jean (Richmond, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wilderness First Aid: A Pocket Guide (Paperback)

Although this book is informative and contains information you need to know in a wilderness medical situation, it would be difficult to find what you need in a pinch because the type font that was used is very small and narrow. My guess is that this is due to the cost of publishing a thicker book that would be necessary with a larger type font; but by saving the space and cost of printing, the price for the reader is that it is more difficult to find and read the information that you might need in a hurry. Also, there are no tabs to indicate different medical situations, which would really help. My advice to those who DO buy this book is to read it thoroughly before going out on the trail--don't wait until you really need it in a medical emergency.

4.0 out of 5 stars Good knowledge to have in the bush, April 20, 2011

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S. Schenck "tyrantxii" (Patterson, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wilderness First Aid: A Pocket Guide (Paperback)

I owned the original printing of this book, lost it over the years and was thrilled to find it again here. The overall medical know-how it contains has seen me through years of countless injuries. That being said, as the first reviewer said, it is best to know most of this stuff before it happens. This version of the book is updated, and that brings with it some positives and negatives. Positives include more detailed procedures and larger typeset (easier to read; the original had significantly less page width). Negatives are primarily limited to simple readability. With the addition of more information, most of the authors sense of humor and short situational stories have been removed, and that's unfortunate. Not only did they make the book more readable, they framed the situation in which the reader may encounter the medical difficulties described within and helped solidify treatment procedures within the readers mind.
Aside from that, it's a great and handy book, recommended reading for anyone who ventures out where emergency treatment and know how are invaluable tools.

4.0 out of 5 stars I'll bet that this is a tiny book..., April 11, 2006

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fredlet (Oakland CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wilderness First Aid: A Pocket Guide (Paperback)

to save on weight. When you are packing, every little bit of weight counts. I am planning on a week long backpacking trip and looking for a first aid book, one of the things I looked for was a small book. They reduced the font and the print size to keep the weight down... 6.4 oz =:) out of the 35 pounds I allotted some of which is food (about 10 pounds) and my pack (which weighs 5), you can see that ounces make a difference and you have to be judicious in what you include.