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Dr. Paul Auerbach is the world's leading outdoor health expert. His blog offers tips on outdoor safety and advice on how to handle wilderness emergencies.
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Mar 10 2010
Kounis Syndrome from Multiple Bee Stings
Bee stings are common afflictions outdoors. The common dreaded complication from a single bee, yellowjacket or wasp sting is a severe allergic reaction. Stings from multiple bees at the same time pose another group of problems, related to the volu...
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Mar 10 2010
Raynaud's Phenomenon and Altitude
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 Raynaud’s phenomenon Travel to High Altitude?” The purpose of their inquiry was to dete...
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Mar 10 2010
Thank You to Health Business Blog for Grand Rounds
Thank you to Health Business Blog for mentioning my post about the ankle rules for children in this week's edition of Grand Rounds. Grand Rounds is a weekly compilation of health care posts from around the web compiled by a host, who goes to great...
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Mar 06 2010
Thank You to Doctor Anonymous for Grand Rounds
Thank you to Doctor Anonymous for mentioning my post about copperhead snake bites in this week's edition of Grand Rounds. Grand Rounds is a weekly compilation of health care posts from around the web compiled by a host, who goes to great lengths t...
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Mar 06 2010
Tick-Borne Illness
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 was entitled “Lessons Re-learned: The US Army’s Experience with Tick –Borne I...
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Mar 03 2010
Ankle Safety and Treating Broken Ankles for Children
There are rules that have been advocated for doctors to use to determine the need for x-rays (radiographs) in the setting of a possible ankle fracture (broken ankle).
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Feb 27 2010
Disaster Medicine and Wilderness Medicine
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. Joy Crook, MD of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, with whom I had the great pleasure of trekk...
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Feb 23 2010
Copperhead Snakebites
The general perception that copperhead bites are less severe than those of other pit vipers, namely rattlesnakes, is no doubt true. It is also likely true that coagulopathy (propensity to bleed) is not as much of a problem with copperhead bites.
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Feb 20 2010
Dog Bite Deaths
Dog attacks are a major public health concern worldwide. In the United States, dogs bite more than 4 million people each year, occasionally resulting in fatalities.
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Feb 17 2010
Blue Jeans and Snakebite
When I was a medical student, I served a summer externship in 1975 with the Indian Health Service at Fort Belknap in Harlem, Montana. On some hot summer evenings, I went fishing at a place the locals called "Snake Lake," which was loaded with cutt...
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