A new study, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, has found that risk takers are not all of the same ilk. Some participate in high-risk activities as a way of controlling their emotions and their lives. Alpinist end to fall short in the relationship department, have difficulty describing their feelings and have […]

If you are at the Capanna Margherita Hut (@4554m!) in the Italian Alps this summer: Please join the Exhaled Breath Profile (EBP) study to validate a novel way to diagnose Acute Mountain Sickness in an early stage! Check: Facebook or on www.hoogteziekte.nl

A lot of news in the latest edition of our Newsletter; The 2nd edition of our Medicine in Exremes Conference will take place on the 23rd of May, in Artis Zoo, Amsterdam. We have set a location and date for our new Advanced Marine Life Support course, it will take place from the 24th of […]

Tourniquets have been adviesed against for many years to stop a bleeding extremity because of a higher chance of amputation of the limb. Latest insights and experience in the army have shown that tourniquets save lives in a pre-hospital setting and rarely cause harm to extremities. Continue reading here.

Maybritt Kuypers (Outdoor Medicine) and Richard Mastenbroek (Advisor Snakebites Havenziekenhuis Rotterdam) lectured on the acute management of snkebites on the yearly conference of the Netherlands Society of Emergency Physicians (NSEP/NVSHA). Richard took one of his snakes along, an albino Python, named ‘Fluffy’!