
Wilderness Medicine Podcast
Stay current with new and noteworthy cutting-edge topics in wilderness medicine and adventure through the Wilderness Medicine Podcast, the official podcast of the Wilderness Medical Society. You won’t want to miss our engaging approach to discussing current articles from the Wilderness & Environmental Medicine journal and highlighting adventures, programs, and other research related to this exciting field.
Latest episodes

Mar 30, 2020 • 1h 23min
March 2020 - Wilderness & Environmental Medicine Live!
March 2020 - Wilderness & Environmental Medicine Live
Wilderness & Environmental Medicine journal online: www.wemjournal.org
Questions/comments/feedback and/or interest in participating in WEM Live? Send an email to: wemlive@wms.org
>>>Special feature! Check out this special video with Covid-19 advice for medical providers in dealing with a restless public under stay-at-home orders, plus a drone video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRyWfO5sxxo&feature=youtu.be
Part 1: Article Review
Title: Pain Is Inevitable But Suffering Is Optional: Relationship of Pain Coping Strategies to Performance in Multistage Ultramarathon Runners
Authors: Kevin N. Alschuler, Brian J. Krabak, Anna L. Kratz, Mark P. Jensen, Dave Pomeranz, Patrick Burns, Joshua Bautz, Claire Nordeen, Crystal Irwin, Grant S. Lipman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wem.2019.10.007
CME Available: https://www.wms.org/members
Presenter: Kevin N. Alschuler
Reviewer: Darryl Macias
Part 2: Summary of WMS Hypothermia Clinical Practice Guidelines 2019 Update
Darryl summarizes the recommendations from the Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Out-of-Hospital Evaluation and Treatment of Accidental Hypothermia: 2019 Update by Dow et al.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wem.2019.10.002
Part 3: Avalanche Resuscitation Workshop from WMS 2020 Winter Conference
Darryl shares takeaways from the workshop.

Dec 17, 2019 • 1h 5min
December 2019 - Wilderness & Environmental Medicine Live
December 2019 - Wilderness & Environmental Medicine Live
Wilderness & Environmental Medicine journal online: www.wemjournal.org
Questions/comments/feedback and/or interest in participating in WEM Live? Send an email to: wemlive@wms.org
Part 1: Climate Change and Human Health
Darryl summarizes a recent session from the ACEP meeting.
Part 2: Improvised Medicine Lab
Darryl and his current wilderness medicine fellow, Risa Garcia, discuss takeaways from a recent improvised medicine lab, including improvised BVMs from a bike pump and IV coconuts. BONUS! Suturing video available here: https://youtu.be/3U9TmnBfj1I
Part 3: Frostbite Guidelines: Author Interview
Darryl sits down with Scott McIntosh to discuss the 2019 update of the WMS clinical practice guidelines for the prevention and treatment of frostbite.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wem.2019.05.002
Part 4: Article Review
Title: Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for Water Disinfection for Wilderness, International Travel, and Austere Situations
Authors: Howard D. Backer, Robert W. Derlet, Vincent R. Hill
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wem.2019.06.006
CME Available: https://www.wms.org/members
Presenter: Darryl Macias
Reviewer: Darryl Macias

Sep 4, 2019 • 55min
September 2019 - Wilderness & Environmental Medicine Live
September 2019 - Wilderness & Environmental Medicine Live
Wilderness & Environmental Medicine journal online: www.wemjournal.org
Questions/comments/feedback and/or interest in participating in WEM Live? Send an email to: wemlive@wms.org
Part 1: Article Review
Title: Cold Water Immersion Syndrome and Whitewater Recreation Fatalities
Authors: David J. Farstad, Julie A. Dunn
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wem.2019.03.005
CME Available: https://www.wms.org/members
Presenter: David J. Farstad
Reviewer: Darryl Macias
Part 2: Drones in SAR
Darryl chats with Jake McRae about his case study, published in the September 2019 issue of WEM, Using an Unmanned Aircraft System (Drone) to Conduct a Complex High Altitude Search and Rescue Operation: a Case Study; article DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wem.2019.03.004.
Part 3: What Exactly is “Wildernational Medicine”?

Jun 1, 2019 • 32min
June 2019 - Wilderness & Environmental Medicine Live
WEML#14 Show Notes
Wilderness & Environmental Medicine journal online: www.wemjournal.org
Questions/comments/feedback and/or interest in participating in WEM Live? Send an email to: wemlive@wms.org
Part 1: Article Review
Title: Chemical Heat Packs as an Intervention to Prolong Ultrasound Battery Runtime
Authors: Steven Roy, MD; Ryck K. Schielke, MD; Daniel Haffey, MD; Heather Coombs, MD
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wem.2019.02.005
CME Available: wms.org/members
Presenter: Darryl Macias, MD
Part 2: Darryl discusses the research possibilities of the terraXcube with Rachel Turner, Damian Bailey, and Sundeep Dhillon.
https://terraxcube.eurac.edu
Part 3: Darryl explores the idea of diversity in wilderness medicine. Items mentioned in this portion:
Diversity in Wilderness Medicine by Roople K Unia, MD: https://www.wms.org/magazine/1233/Diversity_in_Wilderness_Medicine
Films: An American Ascent, Stumped
Book: The Adventure Gap by James Mills

Mar 4, 2019 • 1h 9min
March 2019 - Wilderness & Environmental Medicine Live
WEML#13 Show Notes
Wilderness & Environmental Medicine journal online: www.wemjournal.org
Questions/comments/feedback and/or interest in participating in WEM Live? Send an email to: wemlive@wms.org
Part 1: Article Review
Title: Efficacy of Head and Torso Rewarming Using a Human Model for Severe Hypothermia
Authors: Kartik Kulkarni, Erik Hildahl, Ramesh Dutta, Sandra C. Webber, Steven Passmore, Gerren K McDonald, Gordon G. Giesbrecht
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wem.2018.11.005
CME Available: wms.org/members
Presenter: Darryl Macias, MD
Part 2: Exploring wilderness EMS education—what wilderness first aid, wilderness first responder, and wilderness EMT trainings are really about. We then discuss a new “wilderness alpine first responder (WAFR),” just taught in the Everest region.
Part 3: We catch up with mountaineer Conrad Anker to discuss his upcoming projects.

Nov 29, 2018 • 38min
December 2018 - Wilderness & Environmental Medicine Live
WEML#12 Show Notes
Wilderness & Environmental Medicine journal online: www.wemjournal.org
Questions/comments/feedback and/or interest in participating in WEM Live? Send an email to: wemlive@wms.org
Part 1: Article Review
Title: High Altitude Illness: Knowledge, Practice, and Attitudes of Porters in Nepal
Authors: Pranawa Koirala, Seth E. Wolpin, Janet T. Peterson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wem.2018.06.002
Presenter: Jacob Jensen
CME Available: wms.org/members
Part 2: Avalanche and Cold Weather Resuscitation
Host Darryl Macias prepares us for the upcoming winter season with a discussion of a recent study published in Resuscitation: Hypothermia Outcome Prediction After Extracorporeal Life Support for Hypothermic Cardiac Arrest Patients: The HOPE Score. Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2018.07.349
HOPE survival probability score tool: https://www.urg-admin.ch/hope/
Other articles mentioned in this part:
Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines for Prevention and Management of Avalanche and Nonavalanche Snow Burial Accidents. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wem.2016.10.004
“Cold Card” to Guide Responders in the Assessment and Care of Cold-Exposed Patients. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wem.2018.07.001

Sep 17, 2018 • 50min
September 2018 - Wilderness & Environmental Medicine Live
WEML#11 Show Notes
Wilderness & Environmental Medicine journal online: www.wemjournal.org
Questions/comments/feedback and/or interest in participating in WEM Live? Send an email to: wemlive@wms.org
Part 1: Everest Base Camp Rescue Chain Interview
Host Darryl Macias, MD interviews Andrew Nyberg, MD, co-author of the article Wilderness Mass Casualty Incident (MCI): Rescue Chain After Avalanche at Everest Base Camp (EBC) In 2015.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wem.2018.03.007
Part 2: Article Review
Title: Methoxyflurane for Procedural Analgesia at 4,470 m Altitude
Authors: Matt Wilkes, Eleanor C. Heath, Nicholas P. Mason
Presenter: Jacob Jensen, MD
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wem.2018.02.011
CME Available: wms.org/members

May 31, 2018 • 37min
June 2018 - Wilderness & Environmental Medicine Live
WEML#10 Show Notes
Wilderness & Environmental Medicine journal online: www.wemjournal.org
Questions/comments/feedback and/or interest in participating in WEM Live? Send an email to: wemlive@wms.org
Part 1: Article Review
Title: International Commission for Mountain Emergency Medicine Consensus Guidelines for On-Site Management and Transport of Patients in Canyoning Incidents
Authors: Giacomo Strapazzon, MD, PhD; Oliver Reisten, MD, PhD; Fabien Argenone, MD; Ken Zafren, MD; Greg Zen-Ruffinen, MD; Gordon L. Larsen, MD; Inigo Soteras, MD, PhD
Presenter: Jacob Jensen, MD
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wem.2017.12.002
CME Available (06/01/18): wms.org/members
Part 2: Helicopter Rescue
Host Darryl Macias, MD interviews Oliver Kreuzer, flight paramedic and hoist operator for Air Zermatt, on the differences in helicopter rescue in the Alps, the US, and Nepal.

Feb 27, 2018 • 1h 6min
March 2018 - Wilderness & Environmental Medicine Live
WEML#9 Show Notes
Wilderness & Environmental Medicine journal online: www.wemjournal.org
Questions/comments/feedback and/or interest in participating in WEM Live? Send an email to: wemlive@wms.org
Part 1: Article Review
Title: An Update on Fatalities Due to Venomous and Nonvenomous Animals in the United States (2008–2015)
Authors: Jared A. Forrester, Thomas G. Weiser, Joseph D. Forrester
Presenter: Joseph Derek Forrester, MD
Current study: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wem.2017.10.004
Prior study: (Fatalities From Venomous and Nonvenomous Animals in the United States (1999–2007); published in 2012)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wem.2012.02.012
CME Available: wms.org/members
Part 2: Brown Recluse Spider Bites
Discussion from host Darryl Macias, MD about the article NOT RECLUSE-A Mnemonic Device to Avoid False Diagnoses of Brown Recluse Spider Bites from JAMA Dermatology May 2017.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamadermatol.2016.5665
Part 3: Khumbu Climbing Center Feature
Host Darryl Macias, MD presents a feature on the Khumbu Climbing Center (KCC) which includes a discussion on coaching/mentoring of climbing instructors; a recap of UNM Emergency Department International Mountain Medicine Center faculty members’ visit to the KCC, and an interview with KCC co-director Peter Athans.
Part 4: Working as an Expedition Doctor
Article review of Practical Tips for Working as an Expedition Doctor on High Altitude Expeditions from the September 2017 issue of High Altitude Medicine & Biology.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1089/ham.2016.0158

Dec 2, 2017 • 57min
December 2017 - Wilderness & Environmental Medicine Live
WEML#8 Show Notes
Wilderness & Environmental Medicine journal online: www.wemjournal.org
Questions/comments/feedback and/or interest in participating in WEM Live? Send an email to: wemlive@wms.org
Part 1: Drug Doping
Host Darryl Macias discusses the UIAA MedCom Consensus Guide on drug use and misuse in the mountains.
Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.1089/ham.2016.0080
Part 2: Article Review
Title: Exercise-Associated Hyponatremia, Hypernatremia, and Hydration Status in Multistage Ultramarathons
Authors: Brian J. Krabak, Grant S. Lipman, Brandee L. Waite, Sean D. Rundell
Presenters: Aaron Reilly, Trevor Mayschak
Article DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wem.2017.05.008
CME Available: wms.org/members
Part 3: Helicopter SAR Training
Host Darryl Macias provides a taste of what is involved with helicopter search and rescue training.
Postproduction audio editing of the WEM Live! podcast is provided by Tom Conklin Voiceover. www.tomconklinvoice.com.
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