Pocket Guide for Event, Outdoor and Sports Medicine Spiral-bound – June 15, 2016

This book is awesome. As a volunteer EMT with a mountain search and rescue team in Idaho, we can encounter anything from medical tent support for large race events to an injured climber stuck on a cliff needing helicopter transport for advanced medical treatment. This book covers the basics as well as some advanced info for all of those situations. I recommended it to the entire unit, as it is such a great reference for skills and tools we don't necessarily use every day. It's great to have a book I can put in my pack and take with me (EMT book is about 20 pounds too heavy!) to look up information such as a helicopter landing zone, should I need to prepare one! I also love the instructional photos and charts for things like calculating wind chill. It really is a comprehensive guide for the gamut of encounters possible out in the field! Thanks to the author for putting this info together!

This book has an amazing amount of information in it, clearly stated with great pictures, presented in a well organized manner. I am a paramedic and an instructor of wilderness medicine, I have seen a lot of good wilderness medical field guides, non however that covers sports and event medicine as well. This would be a great resource for athletic trainers, coaches, or any medical person who finds themselves responding from the sidelines at athletic events. I do standby medical coverage for many events for our local fire department and I would not dream of being on the job without it.

In the interest of full disclosure, I'm listed in this text as a clinical reviewer. But my review found that this text is excellent. I suggest it to anyone who is serious about civilian austere medicine, or who wishes to be.