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’!

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Under any circumstances, it’s not an easy task traveling along muddy rainforest tracks by motorbike and crossing swollen rivers by dugout canoe. Now imagine doing it while carrying a refrigerator. Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) mounts an expedition to test 40,000 people in remote villages of Congo (DRC) for sleeping sickness. For further reading https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/news-stories/news/through-northern-drc-fridge

Everest ER is packing up for spring 2013, no more summit attempts this season: Some surprising facts about people who actually reached the summit: – Arunima Sinha (India) first female with one leg – Yuichiro Miura (Japan) 80 yrs. the oldest climber – The first women from Saudi Arabia – The first woman from Pakistan