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…
Climbing in New Paltz
Tag: Wilderness Medicine
Rectal Resuscitation
We have had some cutting edge articles in the past but none have been so stimulating as the one that was presented by Nathan Reisman this month. If you are out in the wilderness and you come across a person…
Pit Viper Envenomations
We did not had a good article to post to the WM blog this month. However, I realized that I never posted Andrew Koping’s article on Pit Vipers from a little while back. So, here that one is: Pitviper Coagulopathy…
Montauk Wilderness Medicine Trip
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…
Anaphylaxis in the wilderness
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…
Lightning Strikes!
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…
The Yellow Scorpion
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…