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re: Tick-Borne Illness

Brian Maher — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:10:05 GMT

great tips!

re: SAM Splint versus Philadelphia Collar

Outdoor Ed — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:57:06 GMT

You can watch a video on how to create a cervical collar from a SAM Splint at

sammedical.com/.../C_Collar.html

re: Wilderness First Aid Scope of Practice

Outdoor Ed — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:13:48 GMT

The Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education (AORE) has issued a press release about the roundtable discussion that they held at the AORE Conference in St. Paul, MN. The Wilderness Medical Roundtable brought together four of the leading wilderness medical providers, two AORE practitioners, and two leading authors in an important discussion relating to the issue of standardizing wilderness medicine.

www.outdoored.com/.../template1.aspx

re: Subungual Hematoma

Outdoor Ed — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:51:34 GMT

What can you do to prevent "boot bang?" I just came off a hiking trip in Colorado where I got the dreaded "black toe." It was 5 miles of downhill hiking that did it. I didn't feel any pain during the hike but as soon as I took off my boots I saw my left big toe. In this particular case a contributing factor was wearing wool socks that were too thick which took up extra space in the toe box area of the boots.

Prevention:

1. Check your boot fit including sock combinations

2. Trim your toenails before hiking

3. Tighten up your boots before long downhill stretches. In particular, using a Surgeon's Knot partway up your boot will help you tighten up the top ankle section while leaving the toe area looser. You tie a Surgeon's Knot by taking a few extra twists with the boot lace as show below.

re: Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics can cause Tendon Rupture

edreports — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:14:03 GMT

I have listed this site in my free education portal for teachers at www.educationreporting.com.

Am wondering, is there any specific info you can point me to where outdoor ed is used with K12 students?

Thanks so much,

Steu Mann, M. Ed.

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re: Medical Wilderness Adventure Race (MedWar)

St. Louis Rams — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:01:08 GMT

wow that sounds pretty exciting!! congrats

CPR Tips

Youth Services Litigation Blog — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:20:44 GMT

An excellent post on Outdoor Ed Community has some information that you should pass on to everyone in your organization who might ever need to perform CPR. It discusses recent research in "agonal breathing," or gasping and moaning sounds in

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re: It’s Hot in the Mountains!

Jay Roberts — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:22:49 GMT

Hey Tod:

I myself just returned from a canoe trip to Northern Ontario... same thing. Highs were in upper 80's and 90's and lows were 60's and 70's. We slept on top of our sleeping bags and wore none of our layers for just about the entire trip. Bugs were horrific. In the seven years I have been up in that region I have noticed this trend: summer starts earlier (we are able to run trips in warm weather up there in May now) and gets hotter. We are actually thinking of adjusting our clothing lists to account for the changes. Climate change or no, things are tangibly occurring in the backcountry. And outdoor educators are potentially the canaries in the coalmine.

BTW, a new study on Lake Superior shows the lake has increased in temp. TWICE the increase in air temp- they have found that lake temp correlates to amount of time the lake is iced over in the winter. This was completely unexpected.

Jay