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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: Achieving Initial Control with Antivenom in Snakebite Victims

    by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog When someone is bitten by pit viper snakes (examples include rattlesnakes, copperheads, and cottonmouths) in the U.S., they may or may not become envenomed, depending on a number of factors: the size of the snake...
  • Blog Post: Evolving Snake Venom

    Have you heard the story of evolving snake venom? Apparently snake venom in general is becoming more potent and, gasp, snakes have been interbreeding and sharing potent neurotoxins. Alas, while this is good stuff for horror movies, it’s not yet been scientifically demonstrated and probably isn’t...
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