Wilderness Medicine Case Reports

In early 2017, WMT launched a new series of Wilderness Medicine Case Reports as a forum for shared learning about medical cases in the field that laypeople and medics alike have dealt with. Links to these email based cases are below. To contribute a case please first read WMT Wilderness Medicine Case Notes Submission Guidelines

Case Report 6 by Dr Duncan Gray – Machete wound published 6th April 2020

Case Report 5 by Dr Anna Wallace, Dr Nathan Hudson-Peacock and Dr Craig Miller – The use of oxygen to diagnose and treat high altitude headaches published 20th November 2019

Case Report 4 by Amandine Schaller MD – Severe abdominal pain at high altitude – published 18th July 2019

Case Report 3 by Dr Duncan Gray – Jungle wound management – published 3rd October 2017

Case Report 2 by Advanced Medicine alumni Tom Parkin 20 June 2017 – Dog bite in Luxor – a warning about potential rabies transmission

Case Report 1 by Dr Harvey Pynn 27 January 2017 – Fracture management while ski touring in Morocco