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AORE 2008 Conference - A Climate for Change, San Diego, CA: October 30-November 1st, 2008

Registration Now Available The backbone of the AORE conference is the high quality presentations made by outdoor recreation and industry professionals and students. Included below are the workshops currently scheduled to be offered at the AORE 2008 conference...

Posted to Conferences by Outdoor Ed on 08-19-2008

Filed under: Conferences, AORE

2008 Wilderness Risk Management Conference - Sneak Peak

Here's a sneak peak at what is one of the premiere conferences of the upcoming fall conference season. I've been going for years and what's so great about the Wilderness Risk Management Conference (WRMC) is that it is both more narrowly focused...

Posted to Conferences by Outdoor Ed on 08-17-2008

Filed under: Conferences, risk management

Wilderness Therapy Symposium Early Bird Discount ends August 15

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Wilderness Therapy Symposium Integrating Nature and the Therapeutic Process At Naropa University September 12-14, 2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The deadline to receive the...

Posted to Conferences by Outdoor Ed on 08-08-2008

Filed under: Wilderness Therapy Symposium

Summer Health Tips

by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog I was recently invited by Revolution Health to offer their readers a few summer safety tips to beat the "silent summer spoilers." The following is a modified...

Posted to Wilderness Medicine by Outdoor Ed on 08-03-2008

Filed under: wilderness medicine, Auerbach, insect repellent, sunburn, poison oak

Jumping the Railing: Is Outdoor Education Losing Its Sense Of Adventure?

I recently returned from leading a semester program to New Zealand for college students interested in environmental studies. As part of the semester, we travelled with a guide to Arthur's Pass National Park on the South Island to learn more about...

Posted to GREENFIRE by Jay Roberts on 07-30-2008

Filed under: outdoor education, new zealand, ethics

Additional thoughts... on my last post

Hey, A quick addition to thelast post... I had this article in mind when I wrote that post and I couldn't find it. But alas, I found it. Sylvia Dresser (ACCT Executive Director)wrote "ACCT’s Accreditation Program and Practitioner Certification...

Posted to Facilitator's Corner by Chris Ortiz on 07-28-2008

Filed under: Camp, challenge course, practioner

Epinephrine Roundtable

Last evening I sat on a roundtable discussion on the the use of epinephrine in the backcountry at the 25th Anniversary and Annual Meeting of the Wilderness Medical Society. Dave Johnson MD from Wilderness Medical Associates was the initiative on this...

Posted to Wilderness Medicine by Tod Schimelpfenig on 07-28-2008

National Estimates of Outdoor Recreational Injuries

by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog In Volume 19, Number 2 (2008) of the journal Wilderness & Environmental Medicine appears an original research article entitled "National Estimates of Outdoor...

Posted to Wilderness Medicine by Outdoor Ed on 07-26-2008

Filed under: outdoor injuries

Why does your summer camp(or school, college, etc.) have a challenge course?

After finishing a whirlwind of camp trainings to kick off the summer, I thought maybe I could put together a top 10 list of tips for the summer challenge course program. I am realizing that this may be a bit off the mark timing wise as the programs are...

Posted to Facilitator's Corner by Chris Ortiz on 07-19-2008

Filed under: Camp, challenge course, practioner

Splinting

A recent edition of an urban EMT magazine has an article on splinting that opens with a tale of a patient being transported with an un-splinted ankle fracture, and a reference to a study where only 25% of patients with extremity fractures had their injuries...

Posted to Wilderness Medicine by Tod Schimelpfenig on 07-12-2008

Tomatoes and Salmonella

by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog Let's just say that people who like to be outdoors are often the same people who like to eat tomatoes. Tomatoes are a staple food at cookouts, on backpacking trips...

Posted to Wilderness Medicine by Outdoor Ed on 07-07-2008

Filed under: wilderness medicine, Salmonella, disinfection, tomato

Laceration Repair in the Wilderness

by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog . I'm delighted to present another guest post from Jeremy Joslin, M.D., entitled "Laceration Repair in the Wilderness": The Scenario It always happens...

Posted to Wilderness Medicine by Outdoor Ed on 06-24-2008

Filed under: wilderness medicine, cut, laceration

Disinfect, or drink?

We all need to drink water in the backcountry, but do we need to disinfect it? The latest edition of the Journal of Wilderness and Environmental Medicine (Vol 19, Num 2) has an article looking at risk factors for contaminated water in the Sierra Nevada...

Posted to Wilderness Medicine by Tod Schimelpfenig on 06-11-2008

Treatment Principles

In Dr. Jerome Groopman’s “How Doctors Think” there is a tale of medical students from two different schools being told that two entirely different approaches to a problem are the gold standard. As they started to practice medicine they...

Posted to Wilderness Medicine by Tod Schimelpfenig on 06-06-2008

David Breashears' Storm Over Everest - a Risk Management Case Study

If you missed the spectacular Frontline documentary on PBS by David Breashears on the 1996 Everest tragedy you can watch the full two hour episode online at Frontline . There are also interviews with expedition members and interactive maps of the mountain...

Posted to Risk Management by Rick Curtis on 05-18-2008

Filed under: risk management, Everest

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