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’!

Welcome on our new website. We are very proud of the new fresh look and new functionality such as a photo gallery and a news blog. Now we will be able to keep you up to date of the newest developmenst, job offerings and our future plans. From now on it will be possible to […]

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