Books?

[paintballmagnet]

Any medical books that might help with diagnosis etc? Think i need to find a good basic reference that doesn't complicate things past my capabilities. Prefer printed in regular book form

[Herr Walther]

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That's a good question. I'd like to know of one too.

I use the internet and I usually find out what a minor complain is or what causes it and how to fix it, but the internet isn't forever.

[Reasonable Rascal]

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Will get some recommends for you soon.

RR

[BoonDoc]

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I use this website for PDF versions of books. There are quite a lot.

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/

[Reasonable Rascal]

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Wilderness and Survival Medicine 214: 2nd Edition

This is the latest book by Dr. Craig Ellis, MD, written in collaboration with Chris Breen, an RN and Paramedic practicing in Ireland (Craig is from Down Under).

Written to be both simple as well as comprehensive is is one of the premier survival medicine books out there, and contains not only simplified assessment guidelines but also treatment modalities. It is very well illustrated and over 500 pages in length.

Chris has a stand-alone earlier version, and Dr. Ellis is one of the chief authors of Survival and Austere Medicine: An Introduction 2nd Edition published in 2005.

https://www.amazon.com/Wilderness-Su.../dp/1466224207

This is well beyond the Where There Is No Doctor series but still within the realm of the trained medic. It also contains an excellent reference for various basic emergency medicines, something often lacking.

True survival medicine books that offer diagnostic guidelines are a rarity. Normally you can find one or the other, either comprehensive diagnostic guidelines written for the well educated, or greatly simplified treatment guides (some so simple as to be all but worthless), but little if anything in between.

I know Craig personally; he is a down-to-earth doc of the type you want to have close to hand when TSHTF.

Chris and Craig also have out Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Skills for Nurses, Paramedics and ECPs, published in 2011. I don't have a copy in hand (yet) in order to give a better review but I will soon.

Hope this helps.

RR

[Reasonable Rascal]

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BTW, Boondoc is a thumbs-up sort of guy also.

RR

[Reasonable Rascal]

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Have the book in hand and Craig and Chris really came through. My only criticism thus far would be that all of the pics are in B & W. Otherwise I think this may well be the one you are looking for, sir.

http://www.readocs.net/clinical-asse...ls-for-nu.html

RR

[BoonDoc]

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We use this one quite a bit on our paramedic courses.

https://www.amazon.com/Minor-Emergen...or+emergencies