Last week Dr. Paulson discussed this excellent review that went over the manifestations, pathophysiology and treatment of heat related illness. This paper can be found by clicking here. The Evaluation and Management of Heat Injuries in the Emergency Department Dr. Paulson was also gracious enough to summarize that article in Read more…
This month’s wilderness medicine meeting took place in Brooklyn Heights and we talked about how to deal with anaphylaxis if it occurs in the out-back. Julie Waldman did a nice job discussing the following paper: Anaphylaxis Wilderness Julie also put a nice summary together if anyone is interested in reading Read more…
This months wilderness medicine club meeting discussed a great paper talking about lightning strikes. You can download the paper here: lightning Zina was also nice enough to put together a fast summary of the highlights of this article. Here they are: Wilderness Medical Society Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment Read more…
This is my first attempt to post the papers from our monthly wilderness medicine meetings so please bear with me. Last month Dr. Grock reviewed a nice paper discussing the dangers of messing around with the yellow scorpion. Lucky for us, you won’t find them in this part of the Read more…
I just wanted to take a second to introduce you all to a new section of our KCH blog. It is going to be called Boundless in Brooklyn and it is going to feature wilderness medicine topics. I hope you all enjoy it and follow our conversations there. Enjoy.