clinical

=This page provides access to the clinical parts of the wikispace. =

The clinical topics, as far as possible, relate to a remote/wilderness setting, rather than to the "normal" hospital environment.
 * The clinical skills covered in these sections should not normally be used without hands-on training from a suitably experienced clinician. **

The clinical topics covered in this wikispace are:
 * basic life support: what to do if the casualty has a cardiac or respiratory arrest (though in a true wilderness setting BLS is unlikely to be successful).
 * a structured approach to the injured or acutely ill
 * the SAFETAC approach for practising medicine in a remote or dangerous environment
 * triage: what to do if the demands (i.e. multiple casualties) exceed capacity
 * primary survey & resuscitation: detection and treatment of immediately life-threatening problems
 * secondary survey: detection and treament of all other problems
 * trauma
 * evacuation: you cannot just expect an ambulance to arrive
 * prolonged field care: care of a casualty if evacuation is delayed
 * environmental problems: such as cold or heat related problems
 * tropical and expedition medicine

Miscellaneous
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Field medicine (RGS) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Practice guidelines for lyme disease <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">MSF clinical guidelines <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tips for international travel

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Recommended books
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">(with links to Amazon) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Casualty Care in Mountain Rescue] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Oxford Handbook of Wilderness and Expedition Medicine] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Wilderness Medicine] (this is the definitive wilderness medical book)