num_pages: 368
description: -- Over 180,000 copies of previous editions sold! -- Includes a new chapter on common medical disorders at altitude, by Peter Hackett, Tom Hornbein, and Brownie Shoene -- Offers more thorough coverage than basic first-aid manuals A classic since 1967, Medicine for Mountaineering starts where first-aid manuals stop. Written and edited by ten climber-physicians who specialize in various fields of medicine, this fully updated edition offers expert information on preventing, diagnosing, and treating major and minor medical emergencies in the backcountry.
language: English
title: Medicine for Mountaineering
titlecomplete: Medicine for Mountaineering
genres: Outdoors, Medical, Medicine, Sports, Health, Science, Climbing
ratings_count: 107
publisher: The Mountaineers