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).

Cricothyrotomy is an emergency procedure that is used to obtain an airway when other, more routine methods are ineffective or contraindicated. For most of us it is not part of our daily routine to perform a cricothyrotomy in the hospital, let alone in the outdoors. This case report describes an improvised cricothyrotomy performed with a pocket knife […]

Anne Brants, co-founder Outdoor Medicine, has written an article for the magazine \”Hike & Trekking\”. You can read the column here (in Dutch).