RESPIRATORY DISORDERS - Medicine for Mountaineering and Other Wilderness Activities - page 246

possible. If walking is unavoidable, the affected limb should be carefully bandaged. Not to
evacuate such persons to hospital care is too risky, but every precaution must be taken to
ensure that minimum activity and stress result ( Table 18-1 ).
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