List of wilderness medical emergencies
The following is a list of symptoms and conditions that signal or constitute a possible wilderness medical emergency.
Injury and illnesses
- Arthropod bites and stings
- Appendicitis (leading to peritonitis)
- Ballistic trauma(gunshot wound when hunting)
- Eye injuries(such as from branches)
- Flail chest associated with ice climbing and snowclimbing falls
- sunstroke)
- Hypothermia
- Frostbite
- Poisoning
- Food poisoningassociated with warm weather expeditions
- Venomous animalbite
- Botanicalfrom mushrooms or "wild greens""
- Severe burn(forest fire)
- Spreading wound infection
- Suspected spinal injury from falls, falling rock, ice
- Traumatic brain injury from falls, falling rock, ice
Infections
Neurologic
- Subdural hematoma, associated with rockfall, icefall, falls while climbing, glissade crashes with rocks, mountain bike crashes
Respiratory
- Altitude sickness
- Asphyxia
- Drowning
- Forest fire)
- Pneumothorax
- HAPE)
- Respiratory Arrest associated with neurotoxic bites
Shock
- Anaphylaxis associated with stings
- hemorrhage) associated with climbing falls, kayak crashes, etc.
- Septic shock