Emergency physician with interests in wilderness and prehospital medicine. Medical Director of the Texas State Aquarium, Padre Island National Seashore, Robstown EMS, and Code 3 ER | EBM gone Wild | @EBMGoneWild |
You can overdo heat stroke treatment
Venom extraction kits. Seriously, just don’t.
A novel prevention for acute mountain sickness
Necessity is the mother of tourniquet invention
Want to really repel mosquitoes?
Use hematoma blocks for wilderness anesthesia
Femoral traction splints, helpful or not?
If you don’t use it, you lose it
How you wash your utensils matters
Maybe clothing technology hasn’t gotten better