For many years, drugs have been used to enhance performance in mountaineering. The UIAA (International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation – Union International des Associations d’Alpinisme) MedCom developed evidence-based guidelines for drug use and misuse in mountains. They conclude: “If using drugs not regulated by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), individuals have to determine their own […]

Adventurous trip through Botswana and Zimbabwe (Okavango Delta, Maghadighadi salt pan, Chobe National Park and the Victoria Falls). Medical workshops and lectures on wilderness and expedition medicine (e.g. envenomations and animal bites, hyperthermia, dehydration, tropical diseases, improvised trauma and wound care). Visit the African Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) and snake farm. Various outdoor activities: […]

The last AWLS course of this year took place in Soest, The Netherlands. Half of the 3-day course consisted of lectures (e.g. hyper- and hypothermia, dive medicine, avalanche, altitude illness) and the other half was a hands on experience (e.g. patient assessment, wound- and fracture management, patient transport, emergency evacuation, communication). Floris, one of our […]

Outdoor Medicine and 360 Travels & Expeditions offer a new course. After a 3-day theory course in the Netherlands and 7 days of theory and practice in the Écrins you are a certified Wilderness First Responder (First Aid) and you will have increased your knowledge on winter touring (e.g. tour planning, avalanche, group dynamics, building […]

We have organized the third edition of the Mountain Medicine course this year. A photo report can be found in the gallery. Excited? Follow our website, facebook and newsletter so you do not miss the opening of the registration for Mountain Medicine ’17.