Wilderness and Rescue Medicine 8th Edition

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About the Authors

Jeffrey Isaac is a physician associate andWEMT with a particular interest in backcountry and marine medicine. His 40 years of experience includes service as a fire/rescue crewman, professional ski patroller, mountain rescue team leader, and medical practitioner in hospital emergency departments and remote clinics. He has been an instructor for Wilderness Medical Associates International since the inception of the company and served as its Curriculum Director from 1991 to 2022. Jeff is also a licensed captain and an experienced mariner, having logged thousands of miles in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the Caribbean Sea. His outdoor resume includes 20 years as an instructor and course director with the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School, as well as numerous backcountry misadventures by foot, horse, canoe, bicycle, raft, and old trucks. David Johnson is a retired emergency physician with a lifetime of expe- rience in a variety of outdoor pursuits. He has spent the last 40 years applying his experience as a physician and wilderness traveler to con- sulting, curriculum development, and teaching focused on remote and low-resource environments around the world. He was the owner and Medical Director of Wilderness Medical Associates International from 1997 to 2020 and continued to serve as the Medical Director until 2022. David is known for being firmly committed to the science behind the subject, as well as its practical application at all levels of medical training. For these efforts, David has been recognized by Outward Bound USA with the McGory Award for outstanding contributions to experiential education, and is a recipient of the Charles (Reb) Greg Wilderness Risk Management Award.