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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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Sep 18 2009
Promethazine Warning
Injectable promethazine hydrochloride (former brand name, Phenergan) should carry a boxed warning to emphasize the risk for severe tissue injury when the drug is given incorrectly, the FDA announced on Wednesday. (Promethazine is used as a sedativ...
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Sep 17 2009
Thank You to Suture for a Living for Grand Rounds
Thank you to Suture for a Living for mentioning my post about an important water filtration device in this week's Grand Rounds. Grand Rounds is a weekly compilation of health care posts from around the web compiled by a host, who goes to great len...
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Sep 16 2009
Tips on Trauma and Orthopedics
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 about trauma and orthopedics. It was delivered by Douglass Weiss, MD of T...
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Sep 16 2009
CT kids
The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 15 September 2009doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61558-0Cite or Link Using DOIIdentification of children at very low risk of clinically-important brain injuries after head trauma: a prospective cohort studyOriginal ...
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Sep 12 2009
Sawyer Point One Filter
Water disinfection is unquestionably one of the most important public health strategies to prevent communicable diseases. In most industrialized countries, pure drinking water is taken for granted. Traveling to less well developed locations, and c...
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Sep 10 2009
Thank You to Medic999 for Grand Rounds
Thank you to Medic999 for mentioning my post about mechanical supports for ankle sprains in this week's 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 to ma...
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Sep 09 2009
Depending Upon Technology
This past December (2008), there was a report in Healthcare IT (Information Technology) News that got me thinking, of all things, about medical situations in outdoor wilderness environments. The substance of the report was that researchers at Vand...
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Sep 05 2009
bell's palsy
Corticosteroids and Antiviral Agents for Bell Palsy Patients with Bell palsy benefit significantly from corticosteroid therapy, and the addition of antiviral agents may confer even greater benefit, according to a JAMA meta-analysis.Researchers exa...
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Sep 04 2009
Mechanical Supports for Ankle Sprains
Much of how we know to practice medicine for the outdoors, including medicine in remote wilderness environments, comes from what we learn in the urban setting. For instance, I maintain my skills mostly in the Emergency Department at Stanford Unive...
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Sep 02 2009
Planning Food for Wilderness Expeditions
The Wilderness Medical Society held its Annual Meeting in Snowmass, Colorado from July 24-29, 2009. The meeting was very well attended and once again demonstrated that the Society is the hub organization devoted to advancing the science and clinic...
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