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  • Blog Post: Epinephrine for Out-of-Hospital Treatment of Anaphylaxis

    by Paul Auerbach, M.D. For management of a serious (even life-threatening) allergic reaction, I have been teaching adults to administer epinephrine (adrenaline) by injection for years. This can be a lifesaving intervention. The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) community now concurs that EMS personnel...
    onSun, Dec 18 2011

  • Blog Post: WMS Recommendations on the Use of Epinephrine in Outdoor Education and Wilderness Settings

    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, and David Johnson MD. The WMS convened this roundtable...
    onSat, Sep 11 2010

  • Blog Post: Auto-Injector Safety

    I recently received a credible email account of a person with WFR training accidently discharging an auto-injector of epinephrine into their thumb. Thankfully, the thumb, and the patient who really needed the epinephrine are fine. The anecdote is a reminder that these devices are not foolproof. We need...
    onTue, Aug 24 2010

  • Blog Post: Frozen Autoinjectors and Armpits

    I recently exchanged emails with a fellow who asked if it was acceptable to freeze the auto-injector in his first aid kit. I told him of course not, you may not have time to thaw the medication. Now curious, I intentionally froze four expired EpiPens® on a minus 22ºF night and timed how long...
    onSun, Jan 17 2010

  • Blog Post: The Real Risk of Meds in the Woods

    Many of us have weighed in on the “Meds in the Woods” issue with the competing moral and legal issues keeping the industry from making a uniform statement as to the best practice. With Good Samaritan and epinephrine laws varying from state to state, the discussion becomes even more complicated...
    onWed, Nov 18 2009
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