July/August 2008 ISSN-1059-6518 Volume 21 Number 4 SPINAL CORD INJURY MANAGEMENT Pre-hospital personnel are trained to treat all possible spinal cord injuries based primarily on the Mechanism of Injury (MOI), as well as signs and symptoms. It is equally important in the wild environment for rescue personnel and responders not only to be able to […]
This is the story about what powers the engine of life. In order to survive from second-to-second, minute-to-minute, and carry out the daily activities of life, you have to have energy, and you have to be able to extract that energy from the world around you. For most of life (with the exception of the […]
May/June 2008 ISSN-1059-6518 Volume 21 Number 3 By Frank Hubbell, DO Yellow fever is an acute hemorrhagic viral illness caused by the yellow fever arbovirus of the genus Flavivirus, family Flaviviridae. It occurs in many African, Central and South American countries, and several Caribbean Islands. There is an effective vaccine. The World Health Organization (WHO) […]
May/June 2008 ISSN-1059-6518 Volume 21 Number 3 Temperature’s Rising: FEVER You are five days into the wilderness on a 14-day trek across the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Russia. Early that morning, one of your fellow trekkers comes over to your tent to let you know that she felt feverish most of the previous night. Throughout […]
