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Wilderness and Travel Medicine: A Complete Wilderness Medicine and Travel Medicine Handbook (Escape, Evasion, and Survival) Paperback – August 7, 2019

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• Medications Guide: Information on the safe use of the medications in this book.
• Immediate First Aid: What to do in life-threatening medical situations.
• Secondary Exam: A secondary exam will help you to make an accurate medical diagnosis.
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• Environmental: Tropical diseases, heat and cold injuries, plants and animals, jetlag, etc.
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• Integumentary: Skin disorders, nail injuries, splinters, etc.
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Wilderness medicine: How to survive and thrive in the great outdoors

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The popularity of outdoor recreation exploded during the COVID-19 pandemic. Record numbers of people embraced activities such as hiking, camping, fishing, and kayaking. About 297 million people visited national parks in 2021 – up 60 million from 2020.

The increase in people enjoying the great outdoors came with an unintended consequence, though: a spike in wilderness-related accidents and fatalities. Media outlets from New York to China have reported steep increases in search and rescue missions amid the pandemic.

Exposure to unfamiliar geography, climate, altitude, plants, and animals can be dangerous if you are inexperienced or unprepared. The most common injuries and ailments in novice explorers include ankle sprains, broken bones, gastroenteritis from contaminated or improperly treated water, and heatstroke or heat exhaustion.

Growing up in the Kashmir region of India, I spent a lot of time hiking and camping. That turned into a passion for wilderness medicine during my residency in upstate New York, where I trekked the Hudson Valley and Adirondacks.

Wilderness medicine is a growing subspecialty that focuses on improvised care for patients in remote areas with limited resources and evacuation capabilities. My colleagues and I are considering developing a wilderness medicine curriculum within our Global Health track for UT Southwestern Medical School students, so they will be better prepared to treat urgent injuries outside the clinical setting.

Before your next adventure – whether it’s on one of the 52 trails around Dallas or in a more exotic locale – take time to prepare for any potential health emergency. Doing proper research, planning, and packing the right equipment will improve your chances of coming home with great memories of gorgeous scenery rather than a wilderness survival story.

Assessing the risks of your activity

Whether you are an experienced outdoor adventurer or just starting out, take time to familiarize yourself with potential risks related to your specific activity.

Some dangers are out of our control, but many risks can be reduced with proper planning and good judgment. For instance, avoid alcohol and drug use, which can cause dizziness, fatigue, or unexpected changes to blood pressure, blood sugar, or vision and can result in falls or other injuries. Some medications can also cause these side effects, so check the labels or talk with your doctor if you’re unsure.

The definition of “hiking” can range from walking on a flat, groomed trail to trekking over rocks and canyons in the mountains, which means the potential for injury varies by terrain. Two of the most common causes of injury and death while hiking are falls and exposure to the elements, such as heat-related illness or hypothermia. Other risks can include:

• Sprains and fractures
• Cuts and lacerations
• Dehydration
• Drinking contaminated water
• Lightning strike
• Insect and animal bites
• Becoming lost

Rock climbing and mountaineering

This sport has hit a growth spurt since the turn of the new century, due in part to the increase of indoor climbing walls. Falls are the most common cause of injuries and deaths, and other risks include:

• Altitude sickness
• Heat- and cold-related injuries

Approximately 3,000-3,800 mountaineers wind up in the emergency department each year in the U.S., and about 70% of climbing-related traumatic injuries are caused by falling to the ground, into a snowfield, or into a crevasse.

Water sports, such as boating, fishing, or kayaking

The main risks while using watercraft such as kayaks, canoes, or Jet Skis are hypothermia, head injury, and drowning. Approximately 4,000 people die each year from unintentional drowning.

Many fishing injuries are due to the hook piercing the body, particularly the eyes. If you are fishing from the bank or while standing in the stream, falls are possible. If you are in the water or in a boat, drowning is a risk.

Create a communication and safety plan

For many, part of the appeal of outdoor adventuring is leaving technology behind and flying solo. You can still achieve that feeling of solitude and freedom while also making smart decisions about your safety. Experienced and novice adventurers should create a communication and safety plan to prevent injuries or to get help quickly if an accident happens.

Tell someone where you are going. Especially if you are going alone, let someone know your destination, expected route, any backup routes, and when you plan to return. If possible, create checkpoints with expected time frames and a plan for what your contact should do if you miss one (such as come find you or alert the authorities).

Give your contact detailed information: For example, what you’re wearing, and the type of car you drive and its license plate. Carry a device with GPS and satellite calling capability if you’re headed into a remote area. You might also share your location through a location tracking app.

Locate the nearest hospital. Save or print directions to get there from your activity spot. This can literally be a lifesaver if you need help or encounter someone who does.

Research the climate and geography of your destination. Preparations may differ depending on whether you are heading into the desert or the mountains. Certain times of year – for example, a dry, rainy, or snowy season – will require different equipment and resources, even in a familiar locale.

Check the trail and weather conditions before you go. If the trail is not clear, for example if it is covered with snow, find another trail or try another day. If a storm is brewing, reschedule your plans to avoid a dangerous situation.

Be ready to turn back if necessary. Listen to weather announcements and follow park rangers’ advice – the trail or mountain will still be there tomorrow.

Take a wilderness medicine or first aid course. Knowing basic field medical techniques can save your life or someone else’s. Learn these key skills before heading into the wilderness: how to do CPR , clean and dress a wound, splint a limb, stabilize a neck injury, and apply a tourniquet – a simple device to apply pressure and stop blood flow from a wound.

The University of Utah School of Medicine offers free online wilderness medicine textbooks that can help you prepare, along with dozens of videos from NOLS , a national wildlife education organization.

Get a pre-adventure checkup. Outdoor activity can tax your heart, lungs, and muscles more than you’re used to or might anticipate. If you’re due for a physical, try to get one before your trip. That way, you can identify potential risks for sudden emergencies associated with exertion.

Related reading: What to do if someone collapses (or crumples) during exercise

Build a wilderness medicine kit

Your first-aid kit should be tailored to your activity, how long you’ll be gone, and how many people are in your party. Many lightweight, easy-to-carry first-aid kits can be purchased at an outdoors store or online.

Here are some basic supplies for a foundational first-aid kit:

• Antibiotic ointment or alcohol wipes
• Anti-diarrhea medication
• Aspirin or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
• Bandages, such as Band-Aids, gauze, athletic injury wrap, and medical tape
• Bug repellant
• Fire starter, such as matches, lighter, or flint
• Hand sanitizer
• Headlamp or flashlight
• Lifejacket, even if you’re a strong swimmer
• Map, compass, GPS unit
• Menstrual products
• Rain gear and extra warm clothing
• Signal flares
• Splint to immobilize a sprain or fracture
• Sunscreen , SPF lip balm, and sunglasses
• Swiss Army knife or multitool
• Tweezers to remove ticks or insect stingers
• Water and extra snacks
• Water filter, water purifier, chemical tablets, or tools to boil unfiltered water

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Here's what to do – and what not to do

Pack extras of your medications, such as insulin, glucose pills, EpiPens, and drugs to treat seasonal allergies and blood pressure, in case you are delayed.

One more suggestion: If you’re traveling to a locale where venomous snakes or spiders live, read up on what they look like and how they behave when agitated. While venomous bites are relatively rare, serious complications such as swelling, infection, and spreading of the venom can happen quickly. DO NOT attempt to suck out the venom, slice open the bite, apply ice or heat to the wound, or use a venom extraction device. Instead, get to the emergency department right away for proper treatment.

Accidents can happen, even among experienced adventurers. Knowing that you are prepared will help you stay calm while assessing and managing the situation.

The great outdoors is calling. Before you embark on your next adventure, do your research and learn the basics of wilderness medicine, so you are better prepared for a safe and enjoyable trip.

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Docs gone wild: The risks and rewards of wilderness medicine

Everest base camp. The ice cap of Greenland. Deep-sea diving destinations. With the growing popularity of adventure tourism and extreme sports comes the need for doctors trained in caring for patients under austere conditions with limited resources. So where do you sign up?

Emergency physician Alison Sheets, MD, knew how treacherous climbing the sheer rock walls in Eldorado Canyon, near Boulder, Colorado, could be. An experienced technical climber and guide, she had climbed most of them herself. So when a message came in on her pager late on a sunny afternoon in October 2014 — “climber with head injuries” — Sheets, who is the medical director for the Rocky Mountain Rescue Group, grabbed her rescue gear and rushed out.

After hiking the steep, rugged 30-minute approach — and joined along the way by other rescuers responding to the call — she spotted the injured climber on the rock face. He’d fallen 60 feet, stopped by a small juniper tree growing out of the rock about 30 feet from the ground. His legs were straddling the tree, his face against the rock, and he wasn’t moving. A fellow climber, on the wall with him, had wrapped a T-shirt around his bleeding head.

Sheets climbed up to join them. The fallen climber’s head was gashed and his legs and feet had sustained serious injuries. But what alarmed her most was when he said, “I’m weak, can’t push myself up.” She asked him to squeeze her fingers. “Here was a guy who had just made a very difficult climb, and he barely had any strength in his hands,” she remembers. That suggested that he had central cord syndrome, a compression injury to the upper spinal cord that makes any movement potentially very dangerous.

Sheets made a quick, critical decision. Instead of lifting him off the tree and lowering him down in his climbing harness, the team would place him on a stretcher right there on the rock wall, wrap him in a full body splint, and lower the litter down vertically, via ropes — an arduous and tricky rescue, but one that would protect his spine and possibly prevent more damage. “I knew he had multiple unstable injuries to the spine and extremities,” Sheets said. “I wanted to move or manipulate him as little as possible.”

Daylight was fading when Sheets and her team finally got the injured climber down off the cliff face. The stretcher was carried by hand and lowered by ropes over the rugged terrain to a waiting ambulance and then to a helicopter that brought him to the Level 1 trauma center at St. Anthony’s Hospital and Medical Campus in Lakewood, Colorado. There, with access to advanced equipment, trauma doctors ultimately confirmed Sheets’ seat-of-the-pants diagnosis.

After a week in intensive care and multiple surgeries for broken bones in his legs and feet, the climber began a slow path to recovery. And while he still has some sensory loss from the injury several years later, he is walking and back at the gym — thanks to Sheets’ quick thinking while she and her patient were on a sheer rock face, 30 feet off the ground.

The call of the wild

The call of the wild has always drawn people to explore the most remote and physically challenging areas on the planet. With the growing popularity of adventure tourism and extreme sports, the lure of the wilderness is as powerful as ever, and as potentially risky. Far from medical care, a fall from a rock, a spill into an icy river, heat stroke on a desert trek, or the bite of a venomous snake can quickly prove fatal. In Colorado’s Boulder County alone, according to an analysis by Sheets and her colleagues , 2,198 mountain and wilderness rescues occurred between 1998 and 2011. In a more sweeping analysis of search and rescues at national parks between 1992 to 2007 , researchers tallied 78,488 individuals involved in 65,439 search and rescue incidents. Although 2,659 of the victims died, 13,212 lives were saved.

To make sure adventurers in the most remote and austere environments get the best care possible under the most difficult circumstances, a growing cadre of physicians are training in a relatively new subspecialty called wilderness medicine.

“Wilderness medicine really began as mountain medicine — the earliest efforts to understand and treat conditions related to high altitudes. Today it draws from multiple disciplines, including emergency medicine, environmental medicine, travel medicine, and even sports medicine,” explains Eric Alan Weiss, MD, professor emeritus of emergency medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, who founded the country’s first formal fellowship in wilderness medicine at Stanford in 2003.

At the heart of the practice of wilderness medicine is the ability to improvise in an austere environment with limited resources. Luanne Freer, MD, medical director for Everest ER, a clinic at the base camp of Mount Everest in Nepal, knows firsthand what that entails. One of the biggest risks for climbers at high altitudes is pulmonary edema, or fluid in the lungs, and severe dehydration. Under most circumstances, it’s easy to rehydrate patients with an IV solution. But in the brutal cold of the base camp, the solution can freeze in the plastic tubing before ever reaching the patient. Freer has learned to keep the solution warm by placing the bag and tube inside a bystander’s down parka, using body heat to keep it flowing. She and her team have fashioned stretchers out of rope and hiking poles and even improvised chest leads on a monitor to perform an ECG on a patient with suspicious chest pain. “That kind of adaptability and improvisation are the key to delivering medical care in the wilderness,” Freer explains.

A young and growing subspecialty

Today, 15 medical schools offer wilderness medicine fellowship programs, including Harvard Medical School, Yale School of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, the University of Colorado School of Medicine at Anschutz Medical Campus (CU School of Medicine), University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine (UC San Diego School of Medicine), and the University of Utah School of Medicine. Many more offer electives in aspects of wilderness medicine. The subspecialty has its own professional society, which is called the Wilderness Medical Society (WMS) and was founded in 1983, and continues to serve as a hub for research, conferences, and training. WMS sponsors accredited continuing medical education (CME) conferences, publishes a peer-reviewed medical journal, and fosters student interest groups on 71 medical school campuses. WMS also collaborates with the international group Advanced Wilderness Life Support , which offers a wide variety of wilderness medicine CME courses around the world.

“Wilderness medicine really began as mountain medicine — the earliest efforts to understand and treat conditions related to high altitudes. Today it draws from multiple disciplines, including emergency medicine, environmental medicine, travel medicine, and even sports medicine.” Eric Alan Weiss, MD Stanford University School of Medicine

Wilderness medicine fellowships typically combine advanced clinical training in environmental emergencies such as frostbite, high altitude sickness, and hyper- or hypothermia, along with training in how to stabilize and evacuate sick or injured patients, and how to improvise under extremely austere situations and severe time constraints. Depending on the institution, participants may learn swift water rescue techniques, technical mountain climbing techniques using ropes and pulleys, or avalanche rescue techniques, among other skills.

Most fellowship programs also offer opportunities to train and work in remote or wild areas. Fellows at the CU School of Medicine can do a stint at the National Science Foundation research center on the ice cap of Greenland, for example. The wilderness medicine program at the UC San Diego School of Medicine offers a curriculum that includes training in undersea diving and hyperbaric medicine and opportunities to work with Divers Alert Network , Flying Samaritans in Baja, Mexico, or a remote clinic in the Amazon basin . At Yale School of Medicine’s wilderness medicine program, fellows have an opportunity to learn crevasse rescue techniques in the Alps or on Mount Baker in the state of Washington. Several programs give participants a chance to work at the Everest base camp.

Wilderness medicine fellows are also encouraged to conduct original research in the field. “This is a young subspecialty, and there’s a push to expand the knowledge base with rigorously designed studies and to gain greater recognition in the larger field of medicine,” explains David Della-Giustina, MD, who directs Yale’s wilderness medicine fellowship. New insights from research have already led to refinements in managing high altitude sickness, hypothermia, and decompression syndrome, a hazard of deep sea diving, for example. The WMS has played a leading role in developing guidelines — such as how to prevent and manage avalanche incidents — that have helped establish standards of care in the field.

Doing what they love

Although there are a handful of full-time positions in wilderness medicine, most practitioners hold down traditional jobs, often in emergency medicine, and do wilderness medicine on the side, usually on a volunteer basis.

“The people who come to wilderness medicine begin with a deep love of the outdoors,” says Stephanie Lareau, MD, who directs the wilderness medicine fellowship program at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and serves as an emergency physician at the Carilion Clinic. “Studying wilderness medicine is a way to combine their love of wilderness activities with their work in medicine.” Lareau volunteers with the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, teaching wilderness skills to hikers, for example. The members of the Rocky Mountain Rescue Group, including its medical director, Alison Sheets, volunteer their time to keep climbers, skiers, and hikers safe.

Jennifer Dow, MD, an emergency physician at Alaska Regional Hospital in Anchorage, Alaska, serves as National Park Service Medical Director for the Alaska region, overseeing 23 parks, monuments, and rivers — a volunteer position she does “because I grew up going to national parks, and it’s important to me,” she explains. Part of her work involves establishing medical protocols and training park rangers in the basics of emergency care. But she’s also available 24/7 to consult with rangers via cell phone or satellite hook-up when there’s an illness or injury in a remote area. “We see frostbite, altitude-related illnesses, major fall injuries, drownings, heart attacks, almost anything you can imagine,” she says. During the peak summer season, she may field as many as a dozen emergency calls from rangers a week.

“What’s attractive about wilderness medicine for many of us is that it’s stripped-down medicine. It’s medicine at its most basic. There’s adventure, and a real sense of connecting with other people who love being outdoors, in the natural world. A lot of people rediscover why they got into medicine in the first place.” Christopher Davis, MD University of Colorado School of Medicine

The hours may be long and the work exhausting and even dangerous. But there are plenty of rewards. “This is a close-knit community, and there’s a tremendous sense of camaraderie,” says Lareau. “One of the things you learn, doing wilderness medicine, is to work together on a team where everyone matters equally. You definitely leave the hierarchy of the hospital behind. The physician may know more about a specific kind of spinal cord injury, but the paramedics are likely to know more about how to safely package and move that injured patient.”

At a time of deepening concern about physician burnout, advocates say, wilderness medicine can offer a powerful antidote to the stresses of high-tech medicine. “What’s attractive about wilderness medicine for many of us is that it’s stripped-down medicine,” says Christopher Davis, MD, who directs the fellowship program at the CU School of Medicine. “It’s medicine at its most basic. There’s adventure, and a real sense of connecting with other people who love being outdoors, in the natural world. A lot of people rediscover why they got into medicine in the first place.”

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UCSF CME: High Sierra Wilderness and Travel Medicine Conference 2020

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Join the University of California San Francisco - Fresno Department of Emergency Medicine at Bass Lake, California - gateway to Yosemite National Park - for the High Sierra Wilderness and Travel Medicine Conference.  The conference is designed to meet the needs of those who may encounter life-threatening situations with limited resources.  This includes not only emergency physicians, nurses and PAs, but also internists, family practitioners, backcountry rangers, EMS providers, members of the search and rescue community, and outdoor enthusiasts.  Through both lecture and hands-on skills workshops, we will explore topics including survival and field treatment of environmental illness, rescue techniques, wound care, and fracture management. This course is proudly presented by the University of California San Francisco- Fresno Wilderness Medicine Program.

Objectives:

Upon completion of the High Sierra Wilderness Medicine Conference, attendees should be able to:

• Apply evidence-based management of medical problems that are unique to the wilderness setting, including environmental exposure, and wound care.
• Utilize necessary skills for remote medical care such as patient assessment and trauma care, including needle decompression and management of wounds and orthopedic injuries.
• Apply basic principles of survival and rescue, from trip planning to behaviors that are likely to result in a successful rescue.

Accreditation:

The University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

UCSF designates this live activity for a maximum of 15 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ . Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

15 hours of California EMS continuing education credits are also available.

The UCSF High Sierra Wilderness & Travel Medicine Conference is a “green” meeting. Syllabus will be emailed to all participants 1 week prior to the conference.

Course Outline:

Monday April 20, 2020

7:00 - 8:00 Registration and Breakfast

8:00 - 8:45 Altitude Illness and Hypothermia – Greg Richardson, MD

8:45 - 9:15 Patient Assessment – Danielle Campagne, MD

9:15 - 9:45 Water Safety – Arun Ganti, MD

9:45 - 10:15 Snake Bites – Nick Brandehoff, MD

10:15 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 11:00 Suspension Trauma – Roger Mortimer, MD

11:00 - 1:20 Hands-on Stations - Patient Assessment - Knots to save your life - Dislocations in the Wilderness - Carries and extraction techniques - Throw bags for water rescue

1:20 Lunch and afternoon on your own

Tuesday April 21, 2020

7:30 - 8:00 Keynote Address - Jordan Benjamin

8:00 - 8:45 What Lies Beneath - Mike Darracq, MD

8:45 - 9:30 Facial Trauma - Robert Julian, MD

9:30 - 10:00 Skills to Save a Life – Andrea Long, MD

10:00 - 10:10 Break

10:10 -1:25 Hands on Skills Stations - Tourniquet Use and improvised Tourniquets - Bleeding Control - Cricothyrotomy - Needle Thorocostomy - Splinting – Upper/lower Extremity - Critters that Kill (and some that don’t) - Eye Foreign Bodies - MCI Triage Drill - Traction Splint

1:25 Lunch and afternoon on your own

Optional 1:30 - 3:30 Beer and Gear - Join our supporters for snacks and explore their products

Wednesday April 22, 2020

8:00 - 8:45 Travel Medicine: What’s New? - Steve Stoltz, MD

8:45 - 9:20 Airplane Emergencies – Sue Spano, MD

9:20 - 10:40 Animal Attacks - Janak Acharya, MD

10:40 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 11:15 When Good Times Go Bad – Helicopter Rescue in the Wilderness- Rusty Hotchikiss, CHP Air Operations

11:15 - 12:15 Multi-Casualty Incident - What to Do with Multiple Patients? - James McCue, MD

12:15 - 1:15 Hands on Session: Putting your New WM Skills to Work! Case scenarios with moulage patients to utilize your new skills

1:15 Lunch and afternoon on your own

Danielle Campagne, MD, FACEP Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine

Arun Ganti, MD Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine

UCSF Fresno Course Faculty

Janak Acharya, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine

Nick Brandehoff, MD Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine

Danielle Campagne, MD Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine

Michael A Darracq, MD Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine

Robert Jullian, MD Professor of Oral Maxillary and Facial Surgery

James Leoni, MD Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine

Andrea Long, MD Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery

Fernando Macias, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine

James McCue, MD Clinical Instructor of Emergency Medicine

Roger Mortimer, MD Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine

Susanne Spano, MD Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine

Steve Stoltz, MD Chief, Division of Hospital Medicine, Professor of Medicine

Michelle Storkan, MD Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine

Geoff Stroh, MD Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine

Outside Faculty:

Cara McAnaney, MD Family Medicine Pittsburgh, PA

Shane Clark, RN Skylife Area Manager Air Methods

Russell Hotchkiss Flight Officer/Paramedic California Highway Patrol

Greg Richardson, MD Emergency Medicine Chicago, IL​

Jordan Benjamin Herpetologist and Wilderness Paramedic Founder and Executive Director Asclepius Snakebite Foundation

Travel & Lodging:

The Pines Resort 54432 Road 432 Bass Lake, CA 93604 Phone number: 877 693 1951

Cancellation Policy:

Cancellations received in writing before 3/6/20 will be refunded, less a $50 administrative fee. No refunds will be made on cancellations received after that date.

Please email your requests to [email protected] .