Mountain rescue doctor
Subtitle: wilderness medicine in the extremes of nature
By: Christopher Van Tilburg
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780312358877
Subjects: Mountaineering accidents; Mountaineering injuries; Mountaineering; Emergency physicians; First Aid; Rescue work; Rescue Work; Personal Narratives; Injuries; Biography
Description: An emergency wilderness physician and member of the Hood River Crag Rats rescue operation presents a series of rescue and recovery stories, offering insight into emergency wilderness medicine and the physical demands placed on its practitioners.
Table of contents: title: Resuscitation; title: Into the slot; title: Crag rats; title: The high cost of high-octane sports; title: Flight for life; title: The moment of fear; title: Timberline trail; title: Dial 911 for mountain rescue; title: Cliff jumpers; title: Disappearance in Gifford Pinchot; title: Dead man on Suksdorf Ridge; title: Mount Rainier; title: Rattlesnake bite on Dog Mountain; title: Storm warning on Zigzag Glacier; title: Midnight at Bennett Pass; title: Plane missing, presumed down; title: Svitek v. Nidecker and Mount Bachelor; title: Anatomy of a search: tragedy on Mount Hood.