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  • Wilderness Medicine

    Treatment Principles

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    In Dr. Jerome Groopman’s “How Doctors Think” there is a tale of medical students from two different schools being told that two entirely different approaches to a problem are the gold standard. As they started to practice medicine they...
  • Wilderness Medicine

    Tick-Borne Illness

    Posted over 3 years ago
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    by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog This is the next post based upon a presentation given at the Wilderness Medical Society Annual Meeting held in Snowmass, Colorado from July 24-29, 2009. The presentation...
  • Facilitator's Corner

    Maintenance in between your yearly inspections.

    Posted over 5 years ago
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    I was going to include this in my last post but that one was getting sort of long and I felt like there was enough information about this that it deserved its own posting. Here are some tips for keeping up on the maintenance in between your annual challenge...
  • Risk Management

    A Perfect Storm - Lessons Learned from Hurricane Irene & Tropical Storm Lee

    Posted over 2 years ago
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    This year took me by surprise, as I know it did for many of my colleagues and it was all about water. First came Hurricane Irene and then Tropical Storm Lee. Each September the Outdoor Action Program at Princeton University sends out over 1,000 students...
  • Wilderness Medicine

    Evidence-Based Management of Wilderness Injuries

    Posted over 4 years ago
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    by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog This is the next post based upon a presentation given at the Wilderness Medical Society Annual Meeting held in Snowmass, Colorado from July 24-29, 2009. The presentation...
  • Wilderness Medicine

    Canadian C-Spine Rule

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    by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog Christian Vaillancourt, MD and his colleagues recently published an article in the journal Annals of Emergency Medicine (2009;54:663-671) entitled "The Out-of...
  • Wilderness Medicine

    Proper Hydration at High Altitude

    Posted over 3 years ago
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    by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog The standard dictum when advising persons who travel to high altitude, and thus expose themselves to a lower atmospheric oxygen concentration, is to stay "well...
  • Wilderness Medicine

    Handwashing, Giardia and old Tales

    Posted over 5 years ago
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    Once there was a time, days of freedom and ignorance vaguely remembered as the 70’s, when we didn’t worry about wilderness water quality. We drank when and where we pleased. Yes, there was a tale of backpackers in Utah who became ill with...
  • Facilitator's Corner

    Additional thoughts... on my last post

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    Hey, A quick addition to thelast post... I had this article in mind when I wrote that post and I couldn't find it. But alas, I found it. Sylvia Dresser (ACCT Executive Director)wrote "ACCT’s Accreditation Program and Practitioner Certification...
  • Wilderness Medicine

    Naturally Occurring Toxins 2

    Posted over 4 years ago
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    by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog This is the sixteenth post based upon educational sessions and syllabus material presented at the Wilderness Medical Society Annual Meeting & 25th Anniversary...
  • GREENFIRE

    Race, class, climate change, and outdoor education

    Posted over 4 years ago
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    A recent post on climate change and race ( http://tinyurl.com/b6fzp7 ) brings up an issue that really needs to be on the forefront of outdoor and environmental education moving forward. It is becoming increasingly clear that climate change will become...
  • Outdoor Education General

    Outdoor Nation: Empowering the nation's youth outdoors

    Posted over 3 years ago
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    Outdoor Nation is a growing community of young Outsiders -- artists, athletes, advocates and ambassadors -- who have joined together to champion the outdoors. This new youth-led movement will reclaim, redefine and rediscover the outdoors - building an...
  • Wilderness Medicine

    Injuries and Illnesses in Wilderness Athletes

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    by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog This is the fourteenth post based upon educational sessions and syllabus material presented at the Wilderness Medical Society Annual Meeting & 25th Anniversary...
  • Wilderness Medicine

    Rabies Vaccine Shortage

    Posted over 5 years ago
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    by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog The American College of Emergency Physicians has just alerted emergency physicians that because of a shortage of rabies vaccine, they need to obtain a confirmation...
  • Wilderness Medicine

    Oral Ondansetron to Assist Oral Rehydration Therapy

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    by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog Oral rehydration can be a lifesaving therapy for persons, particularly children, suffering from dehydration. The most common cause of dehydration in children is infectious...
  • Conferences

    Outdoor Orientation Program Symposium - April 17, 2009

    Posted over 4 years ago
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    Outdoor Orientation Program Symposium. April 17th, 2009 at Camp Becket-Chimney Corners YMCA in Becket, MA. The Outdoor Orientation Program Symposium (OOPS) is a meeting of program directors, school administrators, student leaders, researchers, and land...
  • Wilderness Medicine

    Heat-related Illnesses

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    by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog This is the next post based upon a presentation given at the Wilderness Medical Society Annual Meeting held in Snowmass, Colorado from July 24-29, 2009. The presentation...
  • Wilderness Medicine

    Update on AMS and HACE

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    by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog This is the seventh post based upon educational sessions and syllabus material presented at the Wilderness Medical Society Annual Meeting & 25th Anniversary held...
  • Wilderness Medicine

    Outdoor Sports Injury Prevention

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    by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog Outdoor recreation is the fastest growing category of recreation in the U.S., and perhaps worldwide. In addition to hiking, trekking, backbacking, camping, fishing...
  • Wilderness Medicine

    National Estimates of Outdoor Recreational Injuries

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    by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog In Volume 19, Number 2 (2008) of the journal Wilderness & Environmental Medicine appears an original research article entitled "National Estimates of Outdoor...
  • Risk Management

    What the Maine Ski Lift Accident can tell us about Risk Management

    Posted over 2 years ago
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    The recent ski lift accident at Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine raises some important questions in risk management for outdoor programs. The purpose of this post is not to armchair quarterback the staff at Sugarloaf, but rather to use it to build out some...
  • Wilderness Medicine

    To Thaw or not to Thaw

    Posted over 5 years ago
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    I was recently asked what to do if you can't make it back to the trailhead in one day with frozen toes and have to spend the night in the field? How do you keep the toes from thawing while keeping the rest of your body warm? This is a practical and...
  • Wilderness Medicine

    WMS Recommendations on the Use of Epinephrine in Outdoor Education and Wilderness Settings

    Posted over 3 years ago
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    In the new issue of the Journal of Wilderness & Environmental Medicine is the Wilderness Medical Society Roundtable Report--Recommendations on the Use of Epinephrine in Outdoor Education and Wilderness Settings by Flavio Gaudio MD, Jay Lemery MD,...
  • Wilderness Medicine

    Hantavirus in Yosemite National Park

    Posted 7 months ago
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    by Paul Auerbach Our National Parks are a treasured heritage, and one of the ways in which we appreciate the outdoors. Millions of visitors flock to the parks in order to camp, hike, climb, swim and most of all, appreciate the wonder and natural beauty...
  • Wilderness Medicine

    Brief Introduction to Search and Rescue

    Posted over 2 years ago
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    by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog Finding lost persons in the wilderness is, unfortunately, increasingly necessary as greater numbers of persons explore in the outdoors. Beyond the need to find explorers...
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