July, 2008

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Wilderness Medicine

Observations, questions and dialogue on wilderness medicine topics.
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    Epinephrine Roundtable

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    Last evening I sat on a roundtable discussion on the the use of epinephrine in the backcountry at the 25th Anniversary and Annual Meeting of the Wilderness Medical Society. Dave Johnson MD from Wilderness Medical Associates was the initiative on this...
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    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...
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    Splinting

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    A recent edition of an urban EMT magazine has an article on splinting that opens with a tale of a patient being transported with an un-splinted ankle fracture, and a reference to a study where only 25% of patients with extremity fractures had their injuries...
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    Tomatoes and Salmonella

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    by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog Let's just say that people who like to be outdoors are often the same people who like to eat tomatoes. Tomatoes are a staple food at cookouts, on backpacking trips...
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