Mike Grocott Expedition and Wilderness Medicine lecturer speaks to the BBC about the Caudwell Extreme Everest Expedition

Everest trip helps critically ill
Copyright  Michelle Roberts
BBC News health reporter

Dr Grocott and the Caudwell team plan another trek in 2009

The lessons learned by medics from a trip to Everest could help the treatment of critically ill patients.
The team that braved the Himalayan summit to study the body’s responses to extreme adversity has recorded the lowest [...]

Expedition and Wilderness Medicine support for Commonwealth Championship for Mountain Running and Ultra Distance.

Expedition & Wilderness Medicine  are to provide the medical cover for the Commonwealth Championship for Mountain Running and Ultra Distance. The events will run over four days in September 2009, and Keswick has been chosen as the venue.
Expedition & Wilderness Medicine Director, Dr Sean Hudson is acting as the Medical Director for the event and [...]

Expedition Medicine launches a new course on Dartmoor

Our highly rated Expedition and Wilderness Medicine Training Course is heading south.
We are really excited about our new course – following the same schedule as our Lakeland course and with many of the same inspirational faculty we have linked up with Dartmoor’s premier training faculty, the Heatree Centre located near Newton Abbot to provide an [...]

A Case of Splenic Infarction at High altitude in Sickle Cell Trait by Dr Alison Cook

 
 
A Case of  Splenic Infarction at High altitude in Sickle Cell Trait
About the author – Dr Alison Cook is a G.P. with a keen interest in expeditions and the medical issues in remote locations.  She has attended the Expedition and Wilderness Medicine course in Keswick and has worked as an expedition medic for Across the Divide Expeditions in [...]

Medicine in the Himalayas – Dr Kirstie Nicol

Working for the Himalayan Rescue Association in Nepal
About the writer.  Dr Kirstie Nichol is a G.P. with a keen interest in expeditions and the medical issues or remote locations.   She has attended the Expedition and Wilderness Medicine course in Keswick and the Polar Medicine training course in Alta, Northern Norway and worked as an expedition medic [...]

Mountain Medicine Course

Most of the UK Expedition and Wilderness Medicine Faculty has a background in Mountain Medicine, and like many British expedition medics most of us started climbing in the Alps before moving to the bigger mountains in Nepal. Following the same theme as our other extreme environment courses, the main thrust of the mountain medicine course [...]

A participant’s write up – Polar Medicine Training Course February 2008

The setting for this year’s polar medicine training course was Alta, a small settlement, 72 degrees north and well within the arctic circle. A place with a deserted high street where you would be lucky to see one other passer by every 15 minutes, easily explained by a temperature at least ten degrees below [...]