Posted on December 12, 2008 by Mark Hannaford
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 [...]
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Posted on April 10, 2008 by Mark Hannaford
Hyperbaric Chamber
The concept behind the 3 main portable hyperbaric chambers is they effect a physiological descent by inflating the air impermeable bags above ambient atmospheric pressure. The extent of the descent is dependent on the altitude at which the bag is used and the pressure to which they can be pumped. The patient is placed [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2008 by Mark Hannaford
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 [...]
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Posted on February 4, 2008 by Mark Hannaford
Andy McAlea was the man behind the camera for this piece showing the Air Ambulance assisting on the Expedition and Wilderness Medicine training course in the Lake District.
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Posted on January 25, 2008 by Mark Hannaford
We where privileged at EML to have the Everest Base Camp MD Luanne Freer join our lecture team in the Lake District during here recent visit to the UK
She has a great website for those of you interested in altitude medicine and the video below illustrates the difficulties of operating at [...]
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