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September 18, 2022
The case: tick paralysis. The setting: simulation suite. A five-year-old girl presents with rapidly progressive weakness, ataxia, dysarthria, drooling, and urinary incontinence.
Meet Diana Biggs, MD, Fellow at the University of Colorado, at the summit of Mount Rinjani in Lombok, Indonesia.
September 1, 2022 • Wilderness Photo Contests
Catch a slide show of stunning landscapes and thrilling wilderness adventures some our members embarked on this past year!
May 22, 2022 • Wilderness Section
This has been a difficult season for me. I never thought I’d actually feel burnout. I thought: ‘Nah, that’ll never happen to me, I’m too tough for that; I don’t need as much sleep as ‘they’ do...
May 22, 2022
I recently had the opportunity to serve the people of Ukraine as the country endures over 2 months of military attack. Over 12 million people have been displaced from their homes. Many evacuated with ...
I have just returned from the Namib Desert of Namibia after serving as medical director for RacingThePlanet’s 250km self-supported ultramarathon. This stage race had competitors complete a daily marat...
Poor regulation of body heat, excessive exercise, and extreme weather conditions can each be dangerous. What if you combined all of these? Ultramarathon running pushes athletes to their mental and phy...
During stressful times, it’s human nature to want to simplify and return to the basics. During the early COVID lockdown, I turned to the outdoors. It not only felt good to get outside in safe spaces ...
"Never say no to adventures. Always say yes. Otherwise you will lead a very dull life." -Ian Fleming
Meet these Wilderness Fellows: Nicholas Black, UC San Diego; Ashlee Davis, UMass-Baystate Health; Liz Hamilton, Dartmouth Hitchcock; and Cal Staben, Wake Forest
May was Mental Health Awareness Month, and in case you missed it, the May issue of ACEP Now featured articles focused on behavioral health, including The Importance of System-Level Wellness, How to Ap...
November 4, 2021 • Wilderness Photo Contests
Catch a slide show of stunning landscapes and thrilling wilderness adventures some our members embarked on this past year! COVID reduced the ability to travel to exotic wilderness destinations, but ou...
October 19, 2021 • Wilderness Section
The Wilderness Medicine Section will be hosting its annual meeting in person during ACEP21 in Boston. A virtual option is also available to section members. Tuesday, October 26, 2021 4:30 PM – 7:00 PM...
October 18, 2021
Hello friends, colleagues, and fellow wilderness explorers! I hope this letter finds all of you doing well as we slide right into the fall months. I’m not sure how time always seems to pass so fast, b...
Participation in ultraendurance races has rapidly gained popularity over the past two decades. Although delayed from the continuously increasing participation rate in marathon running, ultramarathons ...
I pulled into the parking lot, just a glimmer of sun visible in the pre-dawn darkness. Only one other car was in sight, which meant my 4:30am wakeup and 30 minute drive to the Wilderness Information ...
I spent most of my early life living on the flatlands where the adventurous would summit upwards of 6000 ft. These could be arduous journeys to be certain but lacked the constant spectre of hypobaric...
Meet Alex Herndon, MD, Wilderness Medicine Fellow at University of California, Irvine; Ty Stannard, MD, Wilderness Medicine Fellow at Virginia Tech- Carilion School of Medicine and Tina Drake, MD, Wil...
EMRA will be hosting the 6th annual MedWAR event at ACEP on Thursday, October 28th, 2021.
Vertical Social Distancing, Unnamed goat and Hope in Mount Hood, Oregon
April 28, 2021
Hi everyone! I'm Mia Derstine, the current wilderness medicine fellow at the University of Colorado. I'm originally from Hong Kong/Chicago, did med school at University of Michigan, and EM residency a...
Greetings friends and colleagues! I can hardly believe we are moving briskly into the spring months of 2021. I am personally very happy to welcome warmer weather and more hours of sunlight in the day,...
April 27, 2021
As part of the Medical College of Georgia Wilderness Medicine Fellowship curriculum, I attended a survival skills course put on by the Mountain Shepherd Adventure School in Catawba, Virginia.
Breathing clean air in California (COVID safe and wildfire free) Rae Lakes Loop, Kings Canyon / Sequoia National Park Patrick Burns, MD Feeling small in the San Juans Island Lake, CO David Young, MD “...
Many have fears rooted in experience or the unknown. The 1990 ‘comedy’ film “Arachnophobia” started mine even though my suburban childhood was filled with tales of Charlotte spinning words in webs and...
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