Browsing: Wilderness Medicine

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Wilderness Medicine

Angling for Success: Techniques for Fishhook Removal in the ED

8/9/2017 Kayvon Izadpanah, MD , Amita Sudhir, MD
Angling for Success: Techniques for Fishhook Removal in the ED An 11-year-old boy presents to the emergency department. While fishing, he was startled by a dog. He began to run away but tripped, land
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Wilderness Medicine

Improvised Medicine: Lessons from the Wilderness

8/9/2017 Geoff Comp, DO, FAWM , Charles Duke, MD, PhD
Improvised Medicine: Lessons from the Wilderness Improvised medicine might be viewed as a skill reserved for the wilderness — for the people who can whittle an entire trauma bay out of a few sticks.
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EMRA MedWAR , Events & Activities , Wilderness Medicine

EMRA MedWAR Rolls to Record Heights in Red Rock Canyon

11/4/2016 Geoff Comp, DO, FAWM , Carrie Jurkiewicz, MD
EMRA MedWAR Rolls to Record Heights in Red Rock Canyon In its inaugural year, the 2016 EMRA MedWAR raced into the record books, with 30 competitors and nearly 40 volunteers staging a wildly successfu
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EMRA MedWAR , Events & Activities , Wilderness Medicine

MedWAR: Are You Up for the Challenge?

5/25/2016 Landon Pratt, MD , Jennifer Miller, DO
MedWAR: Are You Up for the Challenge? You are in a canoe with two friends crossing a lake when suddenly one of them loses consciousness and falls overboard, tipping the canoe and all of its contents
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Clinical , Toxicology , Wilderness Medicine

5-Step Approach to Marine Envenomations

4/7/2016 Navneet Cheema, MD , Carrie Jurkiewicz, MD
5-Step Approach to Marine Envenomations When medical toxicologist Matthew Sztajnkrycer, MD, FACEP, was a second-year resident, he answered a truly strange telemetry call. EMS had arrived on scene of
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Clinical , Wilderness Medicine

When Lightning Strikes

12/3/2015 Brett Van Leer-Greenberg, MD , Abdullah Bakhsh, MD, MBBS
When Lightning Strikes A 54-year-old male is brought in by ambulance after being struck by lightning while wiring a house with grounding poles. He was awake at the scene and does not believe he lost
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Clinical , Wilderness Medicine

Wilderness Medicine Races

2/15/2015 Leah Feazel, MD , Jason Block, MD
Wilderness Medicine Races “On your mark, get set, go!” My five teammates and I charge up the snow-blanketed hill, venturing into the dense timber of the state park. Armed with our essential survival
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Wilderness Medicine

Management of Hypothermia from Wilderness to the ED

4/14/2014 Nicholas Daniel, DO
Management of Hypothermia from Wilderness to the ED Wilderness medicine entails the treatment of exposure-related maladies in the middle of nowhere. Well, not always. While this blossoming field of e