This week we asked you whether you should start with chest compressions or rescue breaths when you are performing CPR on a lightning victim. We will explain you why rescue breaths are the best approach.  When struck by lightning the current can cause a simultaneous cardiac and respiratory arrest. Due to cardiac automaticity the heart […]

By Anne Brants, Emergency Physician and co-founder Outdoor Medicine So when I mentioned basecamp is ready for the next step, I didn’t mean a natural disaster. When the ground started to shake I was in a camp below mine. The expedition leader was reassuring people when we saw a big snow avalanche coming towards us. […]

You have undoubtly seen the footage of the earthquake in Nepal. A natural disaster on a grand scale that came very close to us through the experiences of one of our board members Anne Brants currently on the job as an Expedition Docter at Everest Basecamp. 

By Anne Brants, Emergency Physician and co-founder Outdoor Medicine I am on my way to Everest Basecamp, returning to where I left things a year ago working as an expedition doctor. It is great to trek through the  Khumbu valley again surrounded by beautiful snowy peaks but last years avalanche is haunting me along the way. […]

Last week wePowder reported 69 deaths due to avalanches in the Alps this winter. Since “prevention is better than cure”, knowledge on avalanche risk is important for those of you who are planning to go off-piste. Besides instability of the snowpack and the presence of a trigger (human or natural), specific terrain features can increase […]