Topic: Wilderness Medicine

Immersion Foot

The view from my window is of the eastern slope of the Wind River Range.  The high country gleams white with snow.  The lower slopes

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Sea Bather’s Rash

From the month of May through September, oceangoers along the U.S. Gulf coast need to be concerned about a particular form of skin rash caused

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Hands-Only CPR

I imagine you have heard of or seen the media splash today on “Hands-only” CPR.   It’s not an April’s Fools Joke.   It stems from a

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Tick Attachment Sites

The first issue of Volume 19 of the journal Wilderness & Environmental Medicine has just been published. It contains some very interesting information, some of

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Avalanche Injuries

It was recently reported that a man buried by an avalanche for nearly 8 hours survived after being found with an avalanche probe. According to

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