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Brief Description:
Be Prepared. For Life. (R)
Biographical Note:
The Boy Scouts of America provides the nation's foremost youth program of character development and values-based leadership training, which helps young people be "Prepared. For Life.(R)" The Scouting organization is composed of nearly 2.4 million youth members between the ages of 7 and 21 and approximately 960,000 volunteers in local councils throughout the United States and its territories. For more information on the Boy Scouts of America, please visit www.scouting.org.
Grant S. Lipman, MD is a clinical associate professor of emergency medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. He completed a fellowship in wilderness medicine at Stanford, and is now the director of the Stanford Wilderness Medicine Section and Stanford Wilderness Medicine Fellowship. He has served as chair of the American College of Emergency Physicians Section of Wilderness Medicine and sits on the board of directors of the Wilderness Medical Society. He has published more than fifty original research articles and directed expedition medical care on six continents.
The Scouting Guide to Wilderness First Aid is his thirdbook. He lives with his wife, son, and daughter in Redwood City, California.
Description for Sales People:
The Boy Scouts of America is one of the nation's largest and most prominent values-based youth development organizations. The BSA provides a program for young people that builds character, trains them in the responsibilities of participating citizenship and develops personal fitness.
The BSA currently has over 2.4 million members nationwide and over one million adult volunteers.
More than 110 million Americans have been members of the Boys Scouts since its inception in 1910.
The BSA has over 431K followers on Facebook and 75K followers on twitter. Their official website is scouting.org.
Skyhorse's partnership with the BSA aims to publish books that will stimulate readers, be fun and profitable for retailers, and live up to the Boy Scouts' motto to always Be Prepared. For Life.
A great resource for any scout looking to First Aid, Emergency Preparedness, Backpacking, and Lifesaving merit badges.
Publisher Marketing:
Be Prepared! The Boy Scouts of America provide programs for young people that build character. With this full-color guide scouts, leaders, and everyone else can learn CPR or the proper techniques for treating broken bones, burns, sprains, and more.
In the
Scouting Guide to Wilderness First Aid, current Scouts, Scout alumni, and readers interested in the outdoors are provided with time-tested advice on how to safely identify, harvest, and use edible wild plants. Some practical tips include:
- How to triage, assess, and identify medical emergencies
- What to include in a first aid kit for your home
- When to seek help for health emergencies
- How to safely move a sick or injured person
- How to perform CPR and use an automatic external defibrillator
- What the proper procedures are for broken bones, hypothermia, burns, and sprains
- And so much more!
Contributor Bio:The Boy Scouts of America
The Boy Scouts of America provides the nation's foremost youth program of character development and values-based leadership training, which helps young people be "Prepared. For Life.(R)" The Scouting organization is composed of nearly 2.4 million youth members between the ages of 7 and 21 and approximately 960,000 volunteers in local councils throughout the United States and its territories. For more information on the Boy Scouts of America, please visit www.scouting.org.
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