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The medical preparation of expeditions: the role of the medical officer

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2005
[Extract] The easy question ‘what is expedition medicine?’ needs to be analysed from a number of viewpoints. Firstly, there needs to be an answer to ‘what is an expedition?’ An expedition can be defined as an organised journey with a purpose.1 Such a purpose can be: an exploration of a particular location, a mission of academic or scientific research ...
Marc T M Shaw
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Medical Incidents and Evacuations on Wilderness Expeditions

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, 2007
Objective Expedition activities such as mountaineering, rock climbing, river running, sea kayaking, and canoeing all involve an element of risk. Organizations that provide group wilderness and adventure experiences are responsible for managing the risk of their courses.
Scott E Mcintosh
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Preliminary Evidence-Based Method of Medical Kit Design for Wilderness Expeditions Modeled by a High-Altitude Expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro

Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2022
BACKGROUND Wilderness expeditions require extensive planning and the correct medical supplies to ensure clinical care is possible in the event of illness or injury. There are gaps in the literature regarding evidence-based methods for medical kit design.
Megan Paul, Connor TÜKEL, Dana Levin
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Medical Incidents and Evacuations on Wilderness Expeditions for the Northwest Outward Bound School

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, 2018
Introduction Outdoor education (OE) expeditions travel far from definitive care and have unique epidemiology. Most OE expedition studies have examined a single organization and results may not generalize.
Craig R Warden
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Medical support for the Antarctic expeditions

Военно-медицинский журнал, 2022
E.A. Soldatov   +2 more
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A Review of Medical Evacuations Related to Dental Emergencies and Oral-Maxillofacial Injuries.

Journal of special operations medicine : a peer reviewed journal for SOF medical professionals, 2023
A literature review was performed to determine the frequency of medical evacuations (MEDEVAC) that are required for dental emergencies (DE) and oral-maxillofacial (OMF) injuries.
Iram Qureshi   +2 more
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What is an expedition medic?

Journal of Paramedic Practice, 2021
In the third instalment of Paramedic Roles, Jakki Owens reflects on the multidisciplinary nature of expedition medicine, and details areas that can be the most far-ranging from a paramedic's natural environment.
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Medical Planning for Expeditions

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 1992
Medical planning requires the expedition physician to draw from many aspects of the knowledge base of wilderness and environmental medicine and to learn and use lessons from those that have gone before. The medical plan is dependent on parameters of the expedition objective, scope, and resources and is developed cooperatively with the overall ...
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