Knowledge: wilderness medicine
See Also:
- health → public health and safety → emergency services → search and rescue
- health → public health and safety → rural health
- recreation → outdoors → survival and primitive technology
- recreation → travel → preparation → health
Links
- What is Wilderness Medicine?
http://lonestar.texas.net/~clough/wmintro.html - Brief overview. Advice on how to choose a course provider.
- Survival Medical FAQ
http://www.survival-center.com/med-faq/intro.htm?=No+Frames - Part of a survival web site. Not strictly wilderness medicine, but an adequate orientation for anyone not already trained in emergency medicine. Lists of books for the layman who may have to go it with out a physician.
- eMedicine: Wilderness And Travel Medicine
http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic838.htm - Overview and introduction to the field of Wilderness Medicine.
- High-Altitude Medical Guide
http://www.high-altitude-medicine.com/ - Provides current medical information on the prevention, recognition, and treatment of altitude illness, as well as other health issues affecting travelers to high mountainous regions of the world.
- Wilderness Doctor
http://www.docwild.net - Personal website of Christopher Van Tilburg, an emergency physician and an outdoor book author.
- Everest Base Camp Medical Clinic
http://www.basecampmd.com/ - Describes daily life at the medical clinic. Provides information on medical conditions affecting high altitude climbers.
- Wilderness Medical Society
http://www.wms.org/ - Society for physicians, nurses, physician assistants, EMTs and other first responders concerned with the health & safety of individuals in the wilderness.
- eMedicine Health: Wilderness Emergencies
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/collections/CO1620.asp - Consumer health resource center providing information on wilderness aid.
- Wilderness Medicine Publications
http://www.dbs-sar.com/wilderness_med_publications.htm - A selection of publications on Wilderness medicine and outdoor first-aid. Ideal for both search and rescue and the avid outdoors person.
- National Association for Search & Rescue
http://www.nasar.org/nasar/ - Any person interested in search, rescue or survival activities may join as individual members. Courses are available for search & rescue, basic water rescue, and managing the lost person incident.
- Himalayan Rescue Association of Nepal
http://www.himalayanrescue.org - HRA is a voluntary non-profit organization formed with an objective to reduce casualties in the Nepal Himalayas.
- Wilderness and Environmental Medicine Journal
http://www.wemjournal.org/ - Publishes articles on all aspects of wilderness medicine. Free access to archives.
- Glacier Society
http://www.glaciersociety.org/ - The society mission is to provide assistance to the indigenous peoples in the Arctic by delivering needed medical care to remote coastal areas,
- Mountain Medicine Society of Nepal
http://www.mmsn.org.np/ - Non-profit, non-govermental organization of physicians, scientists and allied professionals interested in mountain medicine.
- Wilderness Medicine & Survival Expert
http://www.simplysurvival.com/ - Greg Davenport is the founding member of a wilderness survival education program, author of numerous books related to outdoor survival, and is considered one of the best global survival experts in the world.
- International Society for Mountain Medicine
http://www.ismmed.org/ - ISMM website contains information on altitude illness. ISMM also hosts courses through University of Heidelberg.
- Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia
http://www.flyingdoctor.net/ - An aeromedical health service for those who live, work or travel in outback and regional Australia.
- Association of Mountaineering Instructors
http://www.ami.org.uk/ - Organization of professionally qualified Mountaineering Instructors in the British Isles; committed to promoting good practice in all mountaineering instruction.
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