The review below was written by Roy Salden, resident anesthesiology Utrecht, and participant of the first edition of Mountain Medicine Winter Edition. Can’t wait to go yourself after reading his story? Keep an eye on the website for the next edition and sign up for the newsletter! The course catalogue of Outdoor Medicine has recently […]

The theme of the latest edition of the Hoogtelijn (mountaineering magazine of the Royal Dutch Climbing and Mountaineering Association) is Ultra – an adjective increasingly used in the world of endurance sports. You will read about a 12-hour climbing event, a mountain bike rally of 648 kilometers including 27,000 altimeters and about the Ultra Trail […]

In the early morning of February 6th, residents of Turkey and Syria were struck by a powerful earthquake, followed by an aftershock 9 hours later. The epicenters were located close to the Turkish city of Gaziantep. The earthquakes, magnitudes of 7.8 and 7.5, were felt as far as parts of Lebanon, Cyprus, and Iraq, and […]

Most people understand that spending time in space causes the breakdown of muscle. But did you know that astronauts are at greater risk of developing a back hernia? And that they are more likely to have ocular abnormalities? And, how do you resuscitate somebody without gravity? For answers to these questions, read the article ‘Aerodokters’, […]

I remember well when Joost Hopman, a medical microbiologist at Radboud UMC, lectured on an Outdoor Medicine day about parasites. With tremendous fascination and admiration for nature, he presented “phenomenal parasites” that target us. These professional parasites inhabit our bodies. In this process, they seriously damage our organs, leave the body like a house party […]