Up to date review and in depth analysis of Wilderness Medicine topics
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…
This week we talked about concussions that happen out in the wilderness. Dr. McHugh discussed this paper: Concussions in the Wilderness He did a great job and has highlighted all the salient facts in this nicely worded discussion. You can read it here if you don’t have time to read Read more…
Dr. Carmelli was kind enough to share a great article with the wilderness medicine division this month on “inflight medical emergencies.” he talked about how often they occurred and what type of gear is packed away on a plane’s emergency kit. The article he reviewed can be found here: Inflight Medicine Read more…
The Wilderness medicine mini-fellowship met again this month and had a great conversation about snake bites in the New York region. It was really interesting to see how many venomous snakes live in our region and how many bites occur from them. Lucky for us, most are dry bites or Read more…
Last week at the Wilderness Medicine Club meeting, we had a great evening discussing fish hook removal over some delicious burgers at Dram Shop on 9th street, followed by some excellent group bonding around a mildly competitive and mostly entertaining game of bocce ball at Union Hall. The paper that Read more…
Everyone had a great time this weekend on our WM trip to New Paltz. After arriving at our rental house on the first day we took a short “hike” where we were not lost at all although I don’t think we were ever on a trail. It was the sound Read more…