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Auto-Injector Safety

Normal.dotm 0 0 1 262 1499 National Outdoor Leadership School 12 2 1840 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false I recently received a credible email account of a person with WFR training accidently discharging an auto-injector of epinephrine into...

Posted to Wilderness Medicine by Tod Schimelpfenig on 08-24-2010

Injury and Illness Encountered in Shenandoah National Park

This article by John Forrester and Christopher Holstege from the December 2009 edition of Wilderness & Environmental Medicine published by the Wilderness Medical Society presents an excellent model for understanding the most common types of illnesses...

Posted to Wilderness Medicine by Outdoor Ed on 08-08-2010

Filed under: common backcountry injury illness

Studies Show that Continuous Chest Compression CPR Very Effective

Tod Schimelpfenig first reported on 'Hands-Only CPR' here in the Wilderness Medicine Blog back in 2008. Two studies just released in the July 2010 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine show that in many cases Compression Only CPR results...

Posted to Wilderness Medicine by Outdoor Ed on 07-31-2010

Wilderness Medical Society Meeting WFA Discussion

On Sunday evening July 25 th Tony Islas MD, president of the Wilderness Medical Society (WMS) hosted a meeting of wilderness medicine providers at the summer meeting of the WMS. All of the major providers were represented, including the Red Cross and...

Posted to Wilderness Medicine by Tod Schimelpfenig on 07-26-2010

Filed under: Wilderness Medical Society, scope of practice, WFA

New Zealand Coroner's Report has Lessons for all of us

The New Zealand Mountain Safety Council (MSC) has issued a press release regarding the New Zealand Coroner's Report on the deaths of six high school students and a teacher on April 15, 2008 in a canyoning accident on a program run by the Sir Edmund...

Posted to Risk Management by Rick Curtis on 07-18-2010

Filed under: New Zealand, Coroner, OPC, Mangatepopo

Children & Nature Network releases Natural Leaders Network Toolkit

The Children & Nature Network (C&NN) was created to encourage and support the people and organizations working nationally and internationally to reconnect children with nature. The network provides a critical link between researchers and individuals...

Posted to Outdoor Education General by Outdoor Ed on 07-05-2010

Filed under: Children and Nature

Consensus Altitude Guidelines

Folks The Wilderness Medical Society convened an expert panel to develop evidence-based guidelines for prevention and treatment of acute mountain sickness, high altitude cerebral edema and high altitude pulmonary edema. These recommendations are published...

Posted to Wilderness Medicine by Tod Schimelpfenig on 06-26-2010

Filed under: high altitude cerebral edema, acute mountain sickness, high altitude, high altitude pulmonary edema

WFR Scope of Practice Draft

The group of wilderness medicine providers working on scope of practice documents have completed a draft of a Wilderness First Responder (WFR) Scope of Practice (SOP) Guideline to accompany the Wilderness First Aid (WFA) SOP published last fall. We’re...

Posted to Wilderness Medicine by Tod Schimelpfenig on 05-21-2010

Filed under: scope of practice, wilderness first responder, WFR

Outdoor Nation: Empowering the nation's youth outdoors

Outdoor Nation is a growing community of young Outsiders -- artists, athletes, advocates and ambassadors -- who have joined together to champion the outdoors. This new youth-led movement will reclaim, redefine and rediscover the outdoors - building an...

Posted to Outdoor Education General by Outdoor Ed on 05-09-2010

Filed under: outdoor nation

Bacterial Diarrhea

by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog Foodborne bacterial diarrhea is a common problem of backpackers, kayakers, divers - of anyone who ventures into the outdoors and is therefore associated with ingestion...

Posted to Wilderness Medicine by Paul Auerbach on 05-02-2010

Filed under: wilderness medicine, diarrhea, bacterial diarrhea, infectious diarrhea

Evolving Snake Venom

Have you heard the story of evolving snake venom? Apparently snake venom in general is becoming more potent and, gasp, snakes have been interbreeding and sharing potent neurotoxins. Alas, while this is good stuff for horror movies, it’s not yet...

Posted to Wilderness Medicine by Tod Schimelpfenig on 04-18-2010

Filed under: snake venom

Raynaud's Phenomenon and Altitude

by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog In a past issue of Wilderness and Environmental Medicine (Volume 20, Number 2, 2009), Andrew Luks and colleagues published an article entitled “Can People with...

Posted to Wilderness Medicine by Paul Auerbach on 03-21-2010

Filed under: high altitude, cold exposure, Raynaud's phenomenon

Wilderness First Aid Scope of Practice Update

Folks This is an update on the wilderness first aid scope of practice process and documents. Our group of colleagues have been working steadily on these documents.We have circulated several drafts of the Wilderness First Aid (WFA) Scope of Practice document...

Posted to Wilderness Medicine by Tod Schimelpfenig on 03-12-2010

Filed under: wilderness first aid, scope of practice

Tick-Borne Illness

by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog This is the next post based upon a presentation given at the Wilderness Medical Society Annual Meeting held in Snowmass, Colorado from July 24-29, 2009. The presentation...

Posted to Wilderness Medicine by Paul Auerbach on 03-06-2010

Filed under: wilderness medicine, lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, tick, permethrin

Future Trends in Outdoor Education

As we turn the corner away from the 00’s or the “aughts” or whatever historians will choose to call the last decade, it’s worth taking a moment to look ahead toward future trends and issues that will affect things in the outdoor...

Posted to GREENFIRE by Jay Roberts on 02-12-2010

Filed under: outdoor education

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