Wilderness Medicine Podcast

The episode works best as a tight lesson in mountain judgment and emergency logistics, using a rescue in Torres del Paine to ground the discussion.

The episode brings together ultrasound, diving, and high-altitude medicine, then closes with a short primer on radio communications. The ultrasound section is the most immediately useful: it focuses on substitute gels and notes that wipes, energy gel, sunscreen, and other sticky…

The episode plays like a field guide to wilderness medicine. It starts with a March 2023 check-in from the WMS Winter Conference in Tahoe, then moves through high-altitude solar water disinfection, mountain rescue in British Columbia, and a brief marine-medicine segment.

The episode keeps its footing in practical field medicine, starting with heat blankets and a prolonged care case before moving through layer order, vapor barriers, and where heat sources should sit. Dr.

The Wilderness Medicine Podcast uses its December 2025 issue to shift from the old butter-on-burns joke into burn clinical practice guidelines, then keeps the focus practical. Dr.

The June 2024 Wilderness Medicine Podcast follows a Grand Canyon norovirus outbreak and the public-health work behind it. It moves through the 2022 acute gastroenteritis outbreak among Colorado River rafters and backpackers, touching on groovers and wastewater, drinking water,…

Climate change is the thread running through the episode, but the focus stays practical rather than abstract. It treats the issue as a creeping pressure on the outdoor industry and on the people making calls in the field, then moves quickly into what heat, air quality, and cold…

The March 2026 Wilderness Medicine Podcast moves from avalanche science to pregnancy-related environmental risk, then on to Chilean Patagonia rescue work and a later Mount Aconcagua update.