Volume 28, Number 4 - Wilderness Medical Society
Volume 28, Number 4 - Wilderness Medical Society
Volume 28, Number 4 - Wilderness Medical Society
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nvironMent // outdoor //<br />
/ cPr // Backcountry // t<br />
/ eMergency // eMs e<br />
/ outdoor WiLdErNESS<br />
// sar<br />
// resc<br />
ackcountry MEdiCiNE // travel Wilder<br />
/ eMs education // envir<br />
/ rescue // avalanche //<br />
cP<br />
Take the Sting Out of<br />
Centruroides in Early August,<br />
the FDA approved Anascorp,<br />
Centruroides (Scorpion) Immune<br />
F(ab´)2 (Equine) Injection under<br />
priority review as an orphan drug.<br />
Centruroides scorpions are found<br />
primarily in Arizona and their<br />
venomous stings can be fatal,<br />
occurring most often in infants and children. Anascorp’s approval<br />
was based on a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled<br />
study of fifteen children and safety and efficacy data from over<br />
1,500 patients in various trials. It is licensed to the company Rare<br />
Disease Therapeutics. www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/<br />
PressAnnouncements/ucm266611.htm<br />
Nefarious Northern Exposure:<br />
<strong>Wilderness</strong> Students Victims<br />
of Bear Attacks In two separate<br />
incidents in July and August,<br />
young students were injured<br />
or killed by bears. In the first,<br />
a group of teens participating<br />
in a NOLS course north of<br />
Anchorage, Alaska, were attacked by a grizzly sow with cubs that<br />
seriously injured two boys. In the other, a teenager was killed by a<br />
polar bear while on a trip to the Svalbard Archipelago in Norway<br />
run by the British Schools Exploring <strong>Society</strong>. Several other<br />
members of the group were injured and evacuated to a hospital.<br />
www.wyomingbusinessreport.com/article.asp?id=58857<br />
www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-06/teen-killed-by-polarbear/<strong>28</strong>27116<br />
Hot Off the Press: Outdoor Emergency<br />
Care, Fifth Edition The long-awaited new<br />
edition of the text used by the National Ski<br />
Patrol has arrived. Developed by experts<br />
in outdoor emergency care, the book is<br />
part of a set of extensive resources used<br />
for the OEC curriculum, which contains<br />
applicable baseline knowledge and skills as<br />
set forth by the US Department of Transportation Emergency<br />
<strong>Medical</strong> Technician (EMT) National Standard Curriculum for<br />
the nonurban environment, and exceeds the knowledge and<br />
skill level of the US DOT’s Education Standards for Emergency<br />
<strong>Medical</strong> Responder (EMR) Training. It should prove very<br />
useful for a variety of emergency first responders who work<br />
in outdoor settings. www.bradybooks.com/store/product.<br />
aspx?isbn=0135074800<br />
It Wasn’t Such a Civil War View<br />
saws of many sizes, gruesome<br />
bloodletting devices, and the<br />
medicine used by doctors to<br />
help soldiers block out the pain<br />
like opium, ipecac and whiskey.<br />
A series of photos of surgery and<br />
medicine during the American<br />
Civil War was released by The National Museum of Civil War<br />
Medicine and the National Library of Medicine. Appreciate how<br />
sophisticated military medicine has become in 150 years!<br />
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2021188/Civil-warsurgery-The-grisly-photos-wounded-soldiers-treated.html<br />
or this: www.cbsnews.com/2300-204_162-10008746.html<br />
16 WILDERNESS MEDICINE // Fall 2011
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