This vital resource for outdoor enthusiasts is now available for the first time in Spanish. Learn how to prevent, recognize, and treat common medical problems and to stabilize a severely ill or injured patient for evacuation.

One of the finest first aid books I've seen.--Mel Otten, M.D., Wilderness Medical Society

This vital resource for outdoor enthusiasts is now available for the first time in Spanish. Learn how to prevent, recognize, and treat common medical problems and to stabilize a severely ill or injured patient for evacuation.

The bestselling NOLS Guide

New chapters on judgment and decision-making and mental health

First-aid topics--patient assessment, shock, soft tissue injury, burns, fractures and dislocations, and chest, head, and abdominal injury

How to handle environmental problems--heat, cold, water, altitude, and poisonous plants and animals