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  • Blog Post: Wilderness Medicine - 6th Edition released

    I want to let everyone know about the release of the 6th Edition of Wilderness Medicine, the premiere textbook on the subject, edited by our frequent contributor Dr. Paul Auerbach. There are not too many books out there that I personally consider as "classics" in our field (titles like Mountaineering...
    onSun, Jan 8 2012

  • Blog Post: Bacterial Diarrhea

    by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog Foodborne bacterial diarrhea is a common problem of backpackers, kayakers, divers - of anyone who ventures into the outdoors and is therefore associated with ingestion of fresh fruits and vegetables, travels to developing...
    onSun, May 2 2010

  • Blog Post: Tick-Borne Illness

    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 was entitled “Lessons Re-learned: The...
    onSat, Mar 6 2010

  • Blog Post: Pain Management in Children for Broken Bones

    by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog Pain management is a hot topic in medicine in general and certainly in medicine for the outdoors. Injuries in particular, and many illnesses, cause pain, which in turn causes the victim to suffer. To a great extent...
    onSun, Feb 7 2010

  • Blog Post: Canadian C-Spine Rule

    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-Hospital Validation of the Canadian C-Spine Rule...
    onSun, Dec 13 2009

  • Wiki Page: Legal Issues in Wilderness Medicine

    Legal Issues in Wilderness Medicine by Charles 'Reb' Gregg September 15, 2004 A student fractures a leg, dislocates a shoulder or lapses into a coma. Weather and terrain prevent radio communication. You are five hours from the trailhead and a telephone. Medical analysis and care are needed. Now...
    onThu, Jan 15 2009

  • File: Spider Strap Removal

    Use this technique to keep leaves, twigs, and pine needles out of the Spider Strap Velcro during wilderness medicine courses or actual patient use.
    onWed, Oct 22 2008
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