"The most authoritative, beautiful, comprehensive, and up-to-date, wilderness medicine textbook ever created" - SOLO

AUTHOR: World-renowned wilderness medicine pioneer and physician Frank Hubbell, compiling his 40 years of wilderness, disaster, travel, and front-country medical research, care-giving and SOLO teaching experience. "Dr. Frank is a walking encyclopedia; talk with him for 5 minutes and it's like you've learned a whole book of information!" - MEDIC Instructor Matt Rosefsky

CONTENT: A teaching text and a reference book. Includes all Wilderness First Responder course topics, and *more.* Used as the SOLO Wilderness First Responder and Wilderness EMT course textbook. Delves into great depth in so many topics, including: scuba dive injuries and treatment; altitude illnesses, acclimatization, and treatment; reducing dislocations; incising/draining abscesses; treating numerous types of eye and teeth injuries; disaster and travel medicine; and even childbirth!

PAGES: 330-page hard-cover textbook, each page with stunning graphic design.

SAMPLE PAGES: www.solowfa.com/forms/wildcare-sample-pages.pdf

PUBLISHED / RELEASED: autumn 2014

COVER TYPE:
Standard: Soft Cover.
Option: RARE HARDCOVER EDITION. As of early 2022, the Hardcover version is no longer in print. We are selling through our remaining brand new stock, and then this will be unavailable.

TESTIMONIAL: On 12/6/2014, MEDIC Instructor Matt Rosefsky wrote to the author and his team:
"I just completed a thorough, cover-to-cover read of WILDCARE. What an astounding achievement! Go team!
> Awesome content, something for *everyone* at *all* levels to learn
> Great injections of humor
> Great sidebar factoids
> Awesome photo backdrops, graphics, images, colors, variation in font styles, colors, and orientation
> Spectacular editing job
All of the above perfectly blended to create a highly-enjoyable, visually-pleasing, always-interesting, never-tiring learning experience!
BRILLIANT! BEST-IN-WORLD-CLASS. A WORK OF ART, A MASTERPIECE."

WHO SHOULD CONSIDER BUYING:
-- If you're CURIOUS TO LEARN about wilderness / travel / disaster first aid ("outside the Golden Hour" first aid applications -- though much of the book content applies directly to front-country emergencies as well, especially in the critical first 5 or 10 minutes before the ambulance arrives), then this should serve as an awesome one-stop resource. Pair it with a hands-on SOLO course such as what's offered at www.solowfa.com or www.soloschools.com and then the two together – great textbook, plus hands-on know-how – will serve you well.
-- If you've TAKEN A FIRST AID COURSE -- whatever level, from basic through instructor -- this will be an excellent must-have reference manual for you, delving into greater depth in many of the topics you've learned, plus more topics you most likely have not learned.
-- If you're ABOUT TO TAKE A FIRST AID COURSE, and have the time to read through before class, you'll be able to soak in so much more during class with this outstanding foundation.
> If you're about to take the full SOLO WFResponder course (typically 8 or 9 days, not the 2-day class), this textbook comes free with your tuition, so don't buy it here – you'll receive it in class.
> If you're about to recertify your WFR, you most likely will *not* receive this in class, so consider ordering it here.
> If you're about to take the 2-day SOLO WFAid course, this is not your course textbook – yours has only 100 pages. Participants of the MEDIC SOLO dWFA course need to decide if you want your 100-page textbook sent to you in advance for $5 as noted on the course registration web page, or if you have time to delve in much more deeply and order this incredibly-far-more-comprehensive 330-page book (not only more pages, but much more content on each page).

Dimensions: 8.82 x 11.25 x 0.82 inches (hardcover)

Weight: 2lb 10oz

*FREE SHIPPING this item only. This book will ship separately from the rest of your order, so if you order more things and see a shipping charge, that's the shipping for the other items. This book will ship to you for free.

For your convenience, consider adding to your order:
-- "MEDIC IN YOUR WALLET" comprehensive care-giving steps manual for 48 different injuries & illnesses, FITS IN YOUR WALLET so you can ALWAYS HAVE IT WITH YOU, such as when driving in a rural area and encountering a motorcycle crash, or as an opportunity to refresh memory / review and learn new treatment steps anytime you're waiting in line for something or riding a bus/plane/train.
-- CARE-GIVING STEPS *CARD* reminds all steps of the Patient Assessment system and multi-step spine assessment procedure, carry in your wallet or first aid kit, or strap onto your backpack
-- PEDIATRICS CARD, so you know what vital signs and behaviors are normal
-- CARE-GIVING STEPS & SOAP NOTE *BANDANA* with much of the Patient Assessment System and SOAP note blanks for you to fill in about your patient.
-- SURVIVAL BANDANA: how to improvise water purification / fire / navigation etc. when caught out unexpectedly
-- SMALLEST CPR MASK + GLOVES KEYCHAIN, so you can be prepared to keep yourself safe when you unexpectedly come across an accident scene
-- SPLINT to tuck into your first aid kit
-- TRIANGULAR BANDAGES (cravats) – they're so cheap, why not pick up a few?
-- TRAUMA SHEARS: the set we sell is so high quality we tested it can cut through penny after penny!
-- PATCH: A nifty sew-on patch that says "Disaster + Wilderness First Aid" on it.