Wilderness 911: A Step-By-Step Guide for Medical Emergencies and Improvised Care in the Backcountry

By Eric A. Weiss

Wilderness 911 takes all back country travelers from the basics of first aid to more advanced wilderness medicine with straightforward, step-by-step instructions. Readers will learn how to improvise with such items as dental floss, duct tape, honey, and plastic wrap. 6 photos, 80 illustrations.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898865972
• ISBN13: 9780898865974
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Mountaineers Books
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

A Good Start....

This guide is well-written & concise. As a medical professional, I found very helpful suggestions in each chapter's "Backcountry Hints" section. Most procedures explained by Weiss are simple enough for anyone to perform. However, many of them also involve some sort of medication, equipment (bandages, ointment, etc...) and occasionally a little prior healthcare knowledge. It seems to be geared toward treating emergencies until you can get adequate medical care. So, it is not really a "survival guide" in the sense that it does not address long-term illness/care or desperate conditions when there are no supplies at all. This book is ideal for a hiking group with an average first-aid kit on board. It is a good buy: handy, small, packable and would be useful in some First Aid courses.

WILDERNESS 911

As I am the air wing commander & president of Malheur County Sheriff Search & Rescue, with M.C.S.O. in Oregon, our service area consists of over 10,000 sq. miles of lakes, rivers deserts & mountians. We have 40 to 50 members & after buying & reading Wilderness 911 by Eric A. Wiess, M.D. I was so thrilled with its easy to read format, its step by step process & its laymen terms & the fact its outline is on "improvised" care in the back country, where we live when we are called out, was a must have item for us. We now have A Wilderness 911 book for every member to carry in there 24hr & 48hr back packs as standerd equipment. We also are going to incorperate parts of it in to our monthly training. any hunter or person going anywhere remote needs to take this with them, it may be the most valuable item with you when you need it. Sincerly Danny L. Cone president of Malheur County Sheriff Search & rescue. Vale Oregon.

Great book fo all around first aid, not just in the outdoors

This is a great first aid book to have around the house, not just in the outdoors. It also has alot of problems that are more specific to the outdoors, like information about the different tick-borne diseases, snake bites, etc. Read it all the way through or just use it as a reference, it s avery helpful book.

Good Job

I am currently teaching a high school class on first aid and emergency medicine. I found the information in this book to be very helpful. I am a Emergency Medical Tech and thought the author had many good ideas from personal exprience.

Outstanding Reference

There are books that might change your life, ... this book could save your life or someone close to you. This is also a great book for anyone who lives in California where an earthquake can delay 911 help by hours or even several days.Anyone who has studied Wilderness Medicine knows Eric Weiss, M.D. as one of the leading experts. As the Associate Director of Trauma and an emergency physician at Stanford University Medical Center, Board of Directors of the Wilderness Medical Society, consultant to the National Geographic Society, Army Special Forces, American Red Cross, and the medical editor for Backpacker Magazine, he offers practical advice that is easy to understand. The author has also published A Comprehensive Guide to Wilderness and Travel Medicine which is another book that every backpacker should have since it is small enough to have in your backpack or emergency supplies. These are books that we recommend for persons in the Hiking for Fun and Fitness Class. See hp22f.webjump.com for more details.