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The view from my window is of the eastern slope of the Wind River Range. The high country gleams white with snow. The lower slopes are green with spring, or white with snow, depending on the day, or sometimes the hour. My hike last weekend was a combination...
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I am thrilled to be part of the Outdoor Ed community blog-o-sphere. The intention is for this to be a place for facilitators to pop in and get some new ideas, points of view, activities, resources and whatever else the facilitators of this community need...
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by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog From the month of May through September, oceangoers along the U.S. Gulf coast need to be concerned about a particular form of skin rash caused by tiny jellyfish. As...
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On Tuesday, April 15, 2008 a five-day backcountry adventure trip in Tongariro National Park on the North Island in New Zealand ended tragically when 6 students and a teacher died. In a small country like New Zealand, where adventure activities are a part...
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This year's Northeast Regional AEE Conference was held at the Boston University Sargent Center outside Peterborough, NH. This annual event brings together professionals in the outdoor and experiential education fields from around New England and beyond...
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I imagine you have heard of or seen the media splash today on “Hands-only” CPR. It’s not an April’s Fools Joke. It stems from a press release by the American Heart Association (AHA) yesterday (Mar 31) that in turn reflects the position of their Emergency...
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by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog The first issue of Volume 19 of the journal Wilderness & Environmental Medicine has just been published. It contains some very interesting information, some of...
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The 25th Anniversary and Annual Meeting of the Wilderness Medical Society will be held in Snowmass, Colorado, July 26-30, 2008. You can learn more about the meeting and register at www.wms.org/. The meeting has 49.5 continuing medical education (CME)...
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by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog There is a plethora of insect repellents on the market. Many of the newer repellents are intended to replace DEET (N,N diethyl-m-toluamide), which is an excellent...
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by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog It was recently reported that a man buried by an avalanche for nearly 8 hours survived after being found with an avalanche probe. According to the victim, he was buried...
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A recent report published in the Proceedings of the National Academey of Sciences entitled Evidence for a fundamental and pervasive shift away from nature-based recreation by Oliver Pergams and Patricia Zaradic shows that after 50 years of steady increase...
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Last week WMI held it’s annual staff meeting in Lander, Wyoming. One of our guest speakers, Stuart Harris MD, is the Director of the Wilderness Medicine Fellowship at Harvard and a high altitude researcher. He talked about hypoxia as a fundamental problem...
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by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog 1. Remove the victim from the source of the burn. If his clothing is on fire, roll him on the ground or smother him in a blanket to extinguish the flames. If the victim...
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by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog The following is adapted from Medicine for the Outdoors : In all first-aid situations, the rescuer must remain calm. If you panic, you may lose control of the victim...
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As an ambulance EMT I make an assessment, provide necessary treatment, and in most cases transport the patient. I rarely make a decision whether or not the patient needs to see the doctor. Yet in the wilderness this may be my decision to make. My judgment...