December, 2007

Risk Management & First Aid

The Risk Management and First Aid Group focuses on managing safety in outdoor programming.

Wilderness Medicine

Observations, questions and dialogue on wilderness medicine topics.
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    NOLS Incident Database Paper Published

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    A new paper based on the National Outdoor Leadership School's Incident database has been published in the Journal of Wilderness and Environmental Medicine (18, 298-304(2007). It gives a perspective on injury and illness rates at NOLS from 2002-2005...
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    A Dislocation Tale

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    One of the illusions about wilderness medicine is that we teach our students techniques which are beyond our skill or experience, that really are the province of a physician. Some of the blame for this miss-perception lies in wilderness medicine instructors...
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    Defining Hypothermia

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    Why is it taught that hypothermia occurs whenever someone is shivering or their temperature drops by a degree or two? I’ve read in several medical texts that the definition of hypothermia is a core body temperature below 95F(35C). (A question from a student...
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    The Milch Technique for Reducing a Shoulder Dislocation

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    Medicine for the Outdoors Blog by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission This post is contributed by Dr. Jeremy Joslin, an avid outdoor enthusiast who is currently training to become an emergency physician. Here goes: After a long day trekking through...
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