The wilderness medicine division had an awesome fishing and camping trip out to Montauk last week. We went on a fluke fishing boat and caught a ton of fish. Four were large enough that we could keep them and cook them up. Everyone caught at least one, 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…