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ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCIES
Emergency medical information covering environmental illnesses and injuries.
Topics on bites, burns, drowning, exposure, foreign bodies, poisonous plants and snake bites.
Human and Animal Bite wounds-Overview and Management
Rabies Post-exposure Prophylaxis Guidelines (Diagram 1)
Rabies Post-exposure Prophylaxis Guidelines (Diagram 2)
Rabies Post-exposure Protocol - Jeff Mann EM guide maps
Asthma and Bee Allergy
Bee and Wasp Stings
Bee and Wasp Stings - UC Davis
Bee and Wasp Stings
Bee and Wasp Stings
Bees, Africanized Honeybees and Wasps - UCSD
Black Widow Spiders
Black Widow Spider - Ohio State Univ.
Black Widow Spiders
Brown Recluse (Violin) Spiders
Facts on Stinging Insects
Fire Ants
Hobo Spiders (Aggressive House Spider)
Home and Garden Insects
Lyme and Tick Borne-Disease Information
Lyme Disease - CDC
Lyme Disease
Lyme Disease FAQ
Lyme Disease Foundation
Lyme Disease Information Resource
Lyme Disease Network
Lyme Disease Site on the Internet
LymeNet
Mud-daubers
Mystery Bugs - U. Ohio
Recluse Spiders
Scorpions
Scorpion FAQ
Spider Bites
Stinging Caterpillars - Univ. Kentucky
Stinging Insects
Stinging Insects in the Garden
The Widow Spiders
Tick-Borne Diseases - Pocket card reference provides colored
photographs of Deer and Dog Ticks, symptoms of Lyme Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, on the front and exposure, diagnosis, treatment, and
prevention of disease on the back. U.S. Army Training Support Centers (TSC)
Yellow Sac Spiders
Yellowjackets
1996 Management Guidelines for People with Burn Injury
American Burn Association - General information for burn care professionals.
Anhydrous Ammonia Exposure Guidelines - The College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Manitoba
Burn Center Protocols in PDF Format - VUMC Burn Center
Burn Management - Virtual Naval Hospital
Burn Severity and Disposition
Burn Treatment Information - Information from the members of the Burn Team, to assist community
physicians and paramedical staff in assessing and treating minor burns, and/or assessing and resuscitating major burns prior to transfer to a specialized
facility.
Burns - Iowa Health Book
Burns
- MedicineNet Burns - Merck Manual Home Edition
Burns - University of Minnesota
Burns (fire/flame)
Burns, Cold, and Thermal Injury - Iowa Family Practice Handbook
Chemical Burns - eMedicine
Chemical Splash/Burn
Electrical Injuries - eMedicine
Electrocution/Electrical Burns
Environmental Injuries - Virtual Naval Hospital
Environmental Illness and Burns - Iowa Family Practice Handbook
Fire Fighters Safety Magazine - Pediatric Burns
GMO Manual - Virtual Naval Hospital
Guidelines for the Operation of Burn Units - Includes referral criteria (PDF)
Initial Evaluation and Management of the Burn Patient - eMedicine
Intermountain Burn Center - This site is designed as an introduction to thermal injury for
emergency medical technicians, medical students and physicians in training.
Lightning
Lightning Injuries - eMedicine
Major Burn Injury and Its Emergent Management - Includes the pearls and pitfalls of treating
burns, and the criteria for referring patients to burn centers.
Protocol for Intra-arterial Calcium Infusion for HFl Burns
Smoke Inhalation
Sunburn
National Association for Search and Rescue
Near Drowning - Merck Manual
Submersion Injury, Near Drowning - eMedicine
Airway Obstruction by Foreign Body and Respiratory Arrest - County of Sacramento EMS
Conjunctival Foreign Body - NCEMI
Corneal Foreign Body - NCEMI
Foreign Bodies in the Nose and Ear: A review of techniques for removal in the emergency department. Emergency Medicine Journal
Foreign Body Airway Obstruction - U.S. Army Training Support
Centers (TSC)
Foreign Body Airway Obstruction - University of Utah
Foreign Body Aspiration - Baylor College of Medicine
Foreign Body in Ear - eMedicine
Foreign Body in Ear - NCEMI
Foreign Body in Nose - eMedicine
Foreign Body in Nose - MEDLINEplus
Foreign Body in Throat - NCEMI
Foreign Body in Trachea - eMedicine
Foreign Body Ingestion - eMedicine
Foreign Object Aspiration or Ingestion - MEDLINEplus
Laryngo, Tracheo, Bronchial Foreign Bodies - Baylor College of Medicine
Nasal Foreign Bodies - NCEMI
Needle (Foreign Body) in Foot - NCEMI
Objects or Insects in Ear -
MedicineNet
Pediatric "Swallowed" Foreign Body - Virtual Naval Hospital
Rectal Foreign Body - NCEMI
Vaginal Foreign Bodies - NCEMI
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A Soldier's Guide to Staying Healthy at High Elevations - This
product is printed black and white as a 6-page accordion folded booklet on waterproof or coated paper. The finished product is 11 ¼"" x 8
½" folded to 3 ½" x 8 ½". This booklet contains health threat and countermeasure information from the most current data available from
U.S. Department of Defense Medical Agencies at the time of production. Topics within the booklet include: Overview; Elevation Measurements; Medical Terms
(i.e., HAPE, HACE); The Human Body's Response to High Altitude; Acclimatization; High Altitude Illnesses; Environmental Threats; and High Mountain
Operations. Department of the Army [PDF 166KB]
Adverse Effects of Cold - Pocket card, 2.5" x 3.5",
Black and White. Printed on both sides. Side one of the card lists two types of cold injuries: Freezing Injury ( frostbite) and Nonfreezing ("trench
foot", "immersion foot"). Cause and Symptoms are provided for each. Side two explains how to prevent from being cold and first-aid treatment.
Department of the Army
Heat exhaustion vs Heat stroke
Heat Related Injuries
High Altitude Medical Problems
Swimmer's Ear
Wilderness and Disaster Medicine Page
Canadian Poisonous Plant Information System
Cornell University Poisonous Plants Home Page - This is a growing reference that includes plant
images, pictures of affected animals and presentations concerning the botany, chemistry, toxicology, diagnosis and prevention of poisoning of animals by
plants and other natural flora (fungi, etc.).
Injurious Plants - This 4" x 5" tan-colored pamphlet
with black print, provides a description of what injurious plants are, pictures of injurious plants (poison ivy, poison sumac, and poison oak), symptoms of
individuals affected by plants, preventive measures, and first aid. Department of the Army [PDF 95KB]
Injurious Plants - U.S. Army Training Support Centers (TSC)
Outsmarting Poison Ivy and Its Cousins - FDA
Poison Ivy
Poison Ivy, Oak, and Sumac
Poison Ivy, Oak, and Sumac Information Center
Poison Ivy, Western Poison Oak, Poison Sumac
Poison Oak FAQ
Poisonous Plant Database - Provides a list by author of scientific information about the animal
and human toxicology of vascular plants of the world [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA)]
Poisonous Plants Around the Home
Cobra Envenomation Protocol
Coral Snake Envenomation Protocol
CroFab - Crotalidae Polyvalent Immune Fab (Ovine) - CroFab is indicated for the
management of patients with minimal or moderate North American crotalid envenomation of Crotalus atrox (Western Diamondback rattlesnake), Crotalus
adamanteus (Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake), Crotalus scutulatus (Mojave rattlesnake), and Agkistrodon piscivorus (Cottonmouth or Water Moccasin). - Savage
Laboratories [PDF 1.6Mb]
Dr. Seward's Gila Monster Page
For Goodness Snakes: Treating and Preventing Venomous Bites - FDA
Guide to Florida's Poisonous Snakes
Management of Marine Envenomations
Moccasin Envenomation Protocol
Mojave Rattlesnake Envenomation Protocol
Ophitoxaemia: Venomous Snake Bite - Review of venomous snake bites and consequences
Poisonous Snakebite Treatment - This pamphlet identifies the two
types of poisonous snakes: vipers and elapids. It describes symptoms of the snakebites and provides first aid instructions.
Poisonous Snakes, Continental United States - U.S. Army Training
Support Centers (TSC)
Rattlesnake Envenomation Protocol
Rattlesnakes
Snakebite Emergency First Aid Information
Snakebite Emergency Web-Page
Snakebite Protocols
Snakebite Treatment - FDA
Snakebites
Venomous Animals - UCSD
Venomous Arthropods - U.S. Army Training Support Centers (TSC)
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