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Whatever happened to Mercurochrome?

ISSN-1059-6518 Volume 28 Number 1 By Paul MacMillan, AEMT I remember, as will many of us “of a certain age,” will also recall that stinging, staining, red dye in a small brown bottle that was applied liberally with a glass wand attached to its cap to all our scrapes and cuts. (The blogger Chesapeake Bay […]

Medications That an EMT Can Administer or Help Administer

  ISSN-1059-6518 The Backpack or Traveling Pharmacy By Frank Hubbell, DO A group of long time friends, three couples and various children, were always coming up with new adventures to share. One of the couples loves to sail and suggested that they should all get together and rent a sailboat for a couple of days […]

Scene Size-up

ISSN-1059-6518 Volume 27 Number 5 We have asked several members of the SOLO staff who also work in remote settings to write up occasional first-hand experiences where some point or principle of wilderness medicine was underscored, relearned, or re-enforced. We are calling these new segments “Reports From the Field,” and you will see them periodically […]