Mountain rescue doctor : wilderness medicine in the extremes of nature
Title:
Mountain rescue doctor : wilderness medicine in the extremes of nature
JLCTITLE245:
Christopher Van Tilburg.
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2007.
Physical Description:
x, 293 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:
9780312358877
9780312358884
Abstract:
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.
Personal Subject:
Contents:
Resuscitation -- Into the slot -- Crag rats -- The high cost of high-octane sports -- Flight for life -- The moment of fear -- Timberline trail -- Dial 911 for mountain rescue -- Cliff jumpers -- Disappearance in Gifford Pinchot -- Dead man on Suksdorf Ridge -- Mount Rainier -- Rattlesnake bite on Dog Mountain -- Storm warning on Zigzag Glacier -- Midnight at Bennett Pass -- Plane missing, presumed down -- Svitek v. Nidecker and Mount Bachelor -- Anatomy of a search: tragedy on Mount Hood.