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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
I would like to thank Sally for presenting such a good paper on heat stroke this month at the wilderness medicine mini-fellowship meeting. If you would like to read that paper, it can be found here: heat stroke She was…