* A vital resource for search and rescue professionals and physicians as well as outdoor enthusiasts * Includes new chapters to cover cold injuries and strategi
Purpose of workbook is to help identify, prevent, and treat cold injuries. Discusses frostnip, superficial frostbite, deep frostbite, and immersion foot (trench
Anyone who is cold, wet, tired, and without the proper food, clothing and shelter can suffer from hypothermia, a lower than normal body temperature that slows a
This first manuscript on cold injuries was written in the period 1945-1946 as the result of personal experience gained in the winter months of the years 1941-19