
Environmental and Wilderness Medicine, An Issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America
- 1st Edition, Volume 42-3 - June 25, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Cheyenne Falat, Stephanie Lareau
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 2 9 5 9 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 2 9 6 0 - 5
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Request a sales quoteIn this issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics, guest editors Drs. C Cheyenne Falat and Stephanie Lareau bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Environmental and Wilderness Medicine. Emergency medicine physicians must be equipped with the knowledge to effectively care for patients who push the limits of this world and are exposed to the extremes of temperature, altitude, terrain, physical activity, flora and fauna—and even outer space. This issue addresses each of these topics with guidance from top experts in the field.
- Contains 15 relevant, practice-oriented topics including altitude related conditions; dive related illness and injury; desert medicine; endurance sporting events; tick borne diseases; climate change; space medicine; and more.
- Provides in-depth clinical reviews on environmental and wilderness medicine, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Emergency Medicine
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Foreword
- Preface
- Heat-Related Illnesses
- Key points
- Introduction
- Presentation
- Risk stratification
- Treatment
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Environmental Hypothermia
- Key points
- Introduction, mortality, and background
- Definitions
- Risk factors
- Pathophysiology of hypothermia
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Cold Injury
- Key points
- Introduction
- History and epidemiology of cold injury
- Frostbite
- Cold associated conditions
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Altitude-Related Illness
- Key points
- Introduction
- Background and definitions
- Pathophysiology
- Epidemiology
- Prevention of altitude-related illness
- Diagnosis of altitude-related illness
- Treatment of altitude-related illness
- Other altitude-related conditions
- Case report: 34-year-old female with headache
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Drowning
- Key points
- Introduction
- Epidemiology
- Pathophysiology
- Pre-hospital care
- In-hospital care
- Prevention
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Underwater and Scuba Diving Accidents
- Key points
- Introduction
- Environmental factors
- History and examination of the injured diver
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Desert Medicine
- Key points
- Introduction
- Patient care considerations
- Desert environment-specific medical conditions
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Supplementary data
- Endurance Sporting Events
- Key points
- Introduction
- History/background
- Cardiac events
- Heat illness
- Dysnatremia
- Musculoskeletal injuries
- Blisters
- Considerations for endurance event medical directors and staff
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Tick-Borne Illnesses in Emergency and Wilderness Medicine
- Key points
- Introduction
- Lyme disease
- Rocky Mountain spotted fever
- Ehrlichiosis and anaplasmosis
- Babesiosis
- Other tick-borne diseases
- Tick-bite prevention and removal
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Plant Dermatitis
- Key points
- Background, prevalence, and healthcare impact
- Classifications
- Prevention
- Treatment
- Complications of mechanical plant injury
- Public health advances in plant dermatitis management
- Climate change and new challenges
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Animal Bites and Attacks
- Key points
- Introduction
- Animal bites
- Clinics care points—animal bites
- Rabies
- Clinics care points—rabies
- Animal attacks
- Clinics care points—animal attacks
- Clinical Management of North American Snake and Marine Envenomations
- Key points
- Introduction
- North American snake envenomations
- North American marine envenomations
- Summary
- Clinics care points—North American snake envenomations
- Clinics care points—North American marine envenomations
- Lightning Strike Injuries
- Key points
- Introduction
- Epidemiology
- Background
- Clinical features
- Prehospital evaluation
- Hospital evaluation
- Prevention
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Climate Change
- Key points
- Introduction
- Background: climate science
- Connecting climate change to human health and vulnerability
- Salient features of climate change and health impacts
- Opportunities for emergency medicine action
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Spaceflight Environment
- Key points
- Introduction
- Screening and prevention
- Environmental factors and their health implications
- Launch and landing considerations
- Return and rehabilitation
- Medical emergencies in spaceflight
- Implications for emergency medicine
- Upcoming challenges
- Clinics care points
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 42-3
- Published: June 25, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443129599
- eBook ISBN: 9780443129605
CF
Cheyenne Falat
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor,
Department of Emergency Medicine,
University of Maryland School of MedicineSL
Stephanie Lareau
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor,
Department of Emergency Medicine,
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine