Publication at Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové |
2010
Abstract
Wilderness medicine covers a practice of emergency medicine in which the main attributes of provided care include difficult patient access, limited equipment, and environmental extremes worsening patient´s condition. Furthermore, it includes uncommon causes of medical emergencies in developed countries, atypical and significant risks to the rescuers, technically difficult patient´s rescue, and complicated transport back to the "friendly" environment.
The authors describe situations which are very rare in the Czech Republic, but may require response of the emergency medical services: accidental hypothermia, avalanche accident, lightning injury and snake bite.