Keeping with tradition, I chose a paper to talk about for our first Wilderness Medicine meeting of the new academic year. I chose this paper which addressed the use of stonefish antivenom to neutralize scorpionfish envenomation. stonefish antivenom This is a topic near and dear to my heart since I, Read more…
Dr. Ben Kaufman did a great job this month presenting this paper that talks about the most recent trends for the treatment of frostbite. That paper can be downloaded here: Frostbite tPA Dr. Kaufman was also kind enough to put together a nice succinct summary for that paper. You can Read more…
This week we had a great wilderness meeting during which Dr. Hinds talked about insect repellents. This is a really important topic if you are going to visit one of the regions of the world where infectious agents such as Malaria or Dengue exist. However, don’t forget that Lyme’s disease can Read more…
This month we had a great meeting where Dr. Janairo reviewed the Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines for the treatment of Pitviper Envenomations in the United States. This was a great review article discussing crotalid envenomations and can be downloaded here: Pitviper Envenomations Pam was also kind enough to put Read more…
This week Dr. Bogoch discussed a nice review article that talked about how common illnesses can be exacerbated by going out into the wilderness. These diseases could by fueled by climbing up or diving down or just about any other wilderness adventure you could imagine. If you want to read Read more…
This month Monalisa talked about 2 great articles on snow blindness. Both of those articles can be downloaded here: Snowblindness in Antartica Snowblindness She did a great job going through them and also provided a nice short summary if your attention span can’t take you though 2 articles this month. Read more…
This month we were lucky enough to have Dr. Bryan Jarrett present an interesting paper on exercise induced pulmonary edema occurring at high altitude monitored by ultrasound. If you would like to read that paper, it can be found here: Exercise Induced Pulmonary Edema Occurring at Altitude Dr. Jarrett was Read more…
This month in the WM meeting, we spoke about jellyfish envenomations. The paper we discussed can be found here: Jellyfish Paper This was a great paper that covered a lot of information about the different jellyfish in different parts of the world and how each should be treated. If you Read more…
This month in the wilderness medicine group meeting we spoke about using therapeutic plasma exchange to treat refractory systemic loxoscelism after a brown recluse spider envenomation. The paper that describes that treatment modality can be found here: Brown recluse envenomation-therapeutic plasma exchange (J Med Toxicol 2015) We had a pretty Read more…
This month we discussed a great review on the resuscitation of avalanche victims given by Dr. Rolston-Cregler. If you want to read that paper in its entirety, please click this link: AVALANCHE RESUS GUIDELINES Louis was also kind enough to put together a summary of that paper and it can be found Read more…