Yapili is a web based platform that connects patients with local or international doctors in areas with a shortage of health workers. The platform is a safe, cloud based solution where consults can be requested by the local end user which can be followed up by doctors locally and even all over the world. Acces […]

With improvements of medical care, increasing numbers of people with underlying medical conditions are travelling to high altitude. These trips can lead to risks, including developing acute altitude illnesses, as well as the risk of infection associated with travel. Andrew Luks wrote a review focussing on transplant recipients travelling to high altitude. Aim of the […]

Recently, Maybritt Kuypers, one of the founders of Outdoor Medicine,  started a new job as “European Space Agency Flight Surgeon” in other words: Medical Doctor for the European Astronauts at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. We asked her to give us a general idea of what this job entails: “Before the spaceflight, the […]

Villafuerte and Corante have published a review on chronic mountain sickness (CMS) in High Altitude Medicine and Biology (June 2016). CMS or Monge’s disease is a highly prevalent progressive incapacitating syndrome. More than 140 million people live above 2500 m worldwide, and on average, 5-10% are at risk of developing CMS. It is caused by chronic hypoxic […]

Outdoor Medicine board members Maybritt and Wouter gave a workshop ‘medical kits, improvised splinting and patient transport at the Dutch Emergency Medicine Conference 2016 last week. They were supported by Reddingsbrigade Egmond aan Zee and Surfing doctors. The participants practiced a kitesurf accident scenario at the beach of Egmond aan Zee. Two kite surfers had […]