You can find the new guidelines for prevention and management of avalanche and nonavalanche snow burial accidents in the latest edition of Wilderness & Environmental Medicine. Important recommendations on prevention, rescue and resuscitation are made. The authors state that avalanche avoidance should be the main method to mitigate risk of injury and death. If an avalanche incident […]

Daniëlle van Winden, A&E trainee (Reinier de Graaf hospital, The Netherlands) about her work for the Boat Refugee Foundation. In October 2016, I worked as a doctor for the Boat Refugee Foundation on a rescue boat on the Mediterranean sea. Hundreds of migrants and refugees try to cross this sea from Libya to Italy on […]

We proudly present our new course: Dive & Marine Life Support (DMLS). The DMLS course introduces you to essential elements of dive medicine, marine medicine, emergency medicine and wilderness medicine. DMLS is designed for medics and paramedics with an affinity with water sports and/or diving. The aim of the Dive & Marine Life Support course is to provide you […]

This biography of Dr. Griffith Pugh is written by his daughter Harriet Tuckey. Pugh was a physiologist and is one of the early pioneers in the field of high altitude medicine. The book describes Pugh’s life, including his role during the successful Everest expedition of 1953 in which he took part. He contributed to the […]

A few years back, Ninette van Es followed “‹an AWLS course from Outdoor Medicine. She worked as a ship’s doctor on more than 15 expeditions. She spoke about her work with LAD magazine. Read the article here (LAD-magazine, nr. 16, december 2016, in Dutch).