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. […]

Deze week meldde wePowder dat er deze winter al 69 mensen zijn omgekomen in de Alpen door lawines. Ook voor lawines geldt: “voorkomen is beter dan genezen”. Om deze reden is kennis over lawines erg belangrijk voor degene die plannen om offpiste gaan. Naast instabiliteit van de sneeuwlaag en de aanwezigheid van een trigger (door […]

Michiel van Veelen, co-founder of Outdoor Medicine, published an article in the Emergency Physicians International Journal on how Outdoor Medicine training gives doctors the tools they need for everyday emergencies outside the hospital. In the article several dilemmas are illustrated which doctors encounter when faced with a medical emergency outside of their comfort zone, such […]

A very cold guideline to keep you warm this holiday season: The WMS has published an update for the guideline “prevention and treatment of frostbite”. We present you a useful summary and some recommendations. A simplified classification system for diagnosing frostbite is often used in the field. After rewarming, frostbite can be classified as superficial […]

De eerste editie van de Mountain Medicine cursus in Oostenrijk was een groot succes. Om een goede indruk van de cursus te krijgen hebben we een filmpje gemaakt met enkele van de hoogtepunten. De cursus zal in augustus 2015 opnieuw gegeven worden.