Chapter 33, Environmental Emergencies

After students complete this chapter and the related course work, they will understand the physiology of environmental injuries. They will have learned the proper assessment and management of general and specific types of environmental emergencies including hypothermia, local cold injuries such as frostbite, and heat exposure illnesses such as heatstroke. They will learn the associated signs and symptoms and emergency treatment of drowning; diving emergencies; high-altitude sickness; lightning strikes; and bites and envenomations from spiders, hymenoptera (eg, bees, yellow jackets, wasps, and ants), snakes, scorpions, ticks, and marine life.