List of wilderness medical emergencies
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The following is a list of symptoms and conditions that signal or constitute a possible wilderness medical emergency.
- 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
- Hyperthermia (heat stroke or sunstroke)
- Hypothermia
- Frostbite
- Poisoning
- Food poisoning associated with warm weather expeditions
- Venomous animal bite
- Botanical from 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
