HUMANITARIAN MISSIONS | EXPEDITIONS | OIL & GAS | SEARCH & RESCUE | WILDERNESS

SECURITY TEAMS | MEDICAL MISSIONS | DISASTER RESPONSE |DOCUMENTARY FILM CREWS

Increased global travel opportunities, adventure sports, natural disasters, armed conflict and humanitarian relief missions, require healthcare professionals to deploy to remote and limited resource environments.

RED MED is a resource for healthcare professionals working in, or aspiring to join, rescue expedition and disaster response teams.

This evidence-based text considers the similarities between wilderness, tactical, rescue and disaster medicine: providing an overview of the fundamentals and a systematic approach to operational planning, risk mitigation and patient assessment.

The book is packed with essential information for the career RED medic or those caught up in sudden onset disasters, wilderness emergencies or impromptu rescue situations.

The 50+ chapters provide an overview of:

• Operational Planning

• Personal Safety

• Survival Skills

• Expedition Medicine

• Polar Medicine

• Desert/Overland Expeditions

• Acute Mountain Sickness

• Remote Area Technology

• Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)

• Disaster Response

• Cultural Competency

• Water Treatment

• Helicopter Safety

• Avalanche Awareness

• Cold Weather Travel

• Heat Illness & Cold Injury

• Portable Hyperbaric Chamber

• Mosquito-Borne Illness

• Crush Syndrome

• Active Shooter

• Prolonged Field Care

• Public Health in Disasters

• Jungle Expeditions

• Telemedicine

• Medical Emergency Response Plan (MERP)

• Risk Assessment

• Scorpion Stings

• Field Hygiene

• Snake Bites

• Close Protection Medic

• Extractives Industry/Oil & Gas Medic

• Remote Clinics (Medical Missions)

• Suspension Syndrome

RISK ASSESSMENT | OPERATIONAL PLANNING | AUSTERE MEDICINE | SAFETY | RESCUE | EXPEDITION | DISASTER