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Risk Management & First Aid

The Risk Management and First Aid Group focuses on managing safety in outdoor programming.
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  • Blog Post: Spring is coming and so are the Ticks

    Spring is on the way in the Northern Hemisphere so it will soon be time to put away winter gear and get ready for other activities. Warmer weather also brings out ticks. Understanding the life cycle of ticks and tickborne illnesses is a critically important part of prevention. While exposure to ticks...
  • 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...
  • Blog Post: Tick Attachment Sites

    by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog The first issue of Volume 19 of the journal Wilderness & Environmental Medicine has just been published. It contains some very interesting information, some of which I will share with you in this and another post...
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