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World Extreme Medicine Podcast

World Extreme Medicine

We’re committed to ensuring extreme medicine education can reach all medical, healthcare and supporting professionals working in austere environments. With regular updates, our team brings you the latest from across the broad spectrum of extreme medicine disciplines, including expedition, space, remote, pre-hospital and humanitarian medicine as well as a range of topics across performance and non-technical skills. Enhance your ability to tackle challenges with new skills you can take home or out

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00:46:10

Snakes, scorpions and Gila Monsters, Oh My! with...

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2022/06/14

Snake bites and scorpion envenomation is a frequent occurrence worldwide. For people who just enjoy the outdoors and especially for medical providers, it is important to know the species of snakes, scorpions and other venomous creatures that inhabit your area. In this episode, self-appointed “snake guy” Stephen P. Wood discusses snakes and scorpions with emergency medical doctor and toxicologist Michelle Ruha. Dr Ruha discusses some of the more important snake species in the United States, as well

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00:40:01

Solo-Backpacking for Women: Safety and Practicality...

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2022/05/24

Lisa van der Sluijs is a college senior and world traveler who shared her experiences as a solo female backpacker at Harvard College during Womens Week. She is joined by host Stephen P. Wood for a frank discussion on backpacking solo. One of the biggest issues pertains to gender equity for solo backpackers. There are many who advocate against this practice citing safety concerns for solo-backpacking women. Lisa counters with the fact that there is nowhere that is truly safe for women, and that this

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00:53:31

Safeguarding in the Humanitarian Arena with Zoe Clift

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2022/05/17

Zoe Clift is a physiotherapist, who works for Humanity & Inclusion, a charity that works along side vulnerable and disabled people in areas of poverty, disaster and conflict. Zoe is the UK Medical Team's Rehab Project Manager and spoke to World Extreme Medicine independently about her knowledge and experience about safeguarding in the humanitarian arena. Join Deb Swann as Zoe explores her pathway into her career, and her experience of this topic in our latest podcast. ReSurge Africa

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01:17:24

Disrupting the world of prosthetics, a double amputee...

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2022/05/10

Justin Oliver Davis is a retired soldier, amputee, mountaineer, adventurer and keynote speaker. In 2011, while serving with 2nd Battalion The Rifles, in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Justin was leading a Quick Reaction Force patrol to intercept a group of enemy insurgents that had ambushed another British call-sign. Justin was providing safe passage by searching for Improvised Explosive Devices, when unfortunately he stood on and detonated one resulting in the loss of both of his lower legs. Justin

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00:58:27

Medics4Ukraine Convoy update with Mark Hannaford &...

World Extreme Medicine Podcast ·

2022/05/05

Join us as World Extreme Medicine Founder and CEO Mark Hannaford and Luca Alfatti, Logistical Lead for the convoys discuss the progress of the work they have carried out so far. Following their live session last week their conversation with Shawna Pandya is now available to listen on demand. The team have transported medical supplies to the area in Ukraine where they are needed, here we discuss the team, what they have learnt, the potential dangers and how they manage this in country. Any donations

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00:41:39

'Patience' The untaught piece of the Quality...

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2022/05/03

In this conversation I’m talking with Carl Betts about his reflections on patience within quality improvement and change within ambulance trusts. Carl is a Paramedic and quality improvement fellow based in Sheffield working for the ambulance service. He has been a Paramedic for 9 years and has a 10-year extensive history of expeditions across multiple continents. He is not a stranger to the podcast and we had Carl on recently talking about re-framing critical analysis within practice. He has

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00:35:34

Bringing the fridge to the great outdoors: expanding...

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2022/04/26

Scott has been working in the field of connectivity, telemedicine, and cold chain supply in off-grid regions of Africa and Haiti since 2011. In that year, he initiated telemedicine live consults from the Maasai Mara region of Kenya and in 2011 was a presenter on telemedicine and satellite communications to the First International Congress on Pathogens at the Human-Animal Interface in Addis Ababa (he also spoke at their 2017 Congress in Qatar on solar powered cold chain supply for vaccines,

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00:54:30

Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) Personality...

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2022/04/12

Welcome to the World Extreme Medicine podcast….. In this conversation we are talking with Steve Wood the vice president of Delivery for Personal Strengths (UK) and is a facilitator, trainer and senior manager within the core strength group. He has extensive experience of developing and facilitating training focusing on leadership, team dynamics, conflict management and personal development. Steve has worked in partnership with a number of the UK's largest organisations in developing and delivering

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00:57:14

The Ukraine Crisis with Karen O'Neill

World Extreme Medicine Podcast ·

2022/04/06

In this episode we speak with Karen O’Neill; Advanced Clinical Practitioner and humanitarian around the unfolding Ukraine crisis. Karen has a wealth of experience of delivering aid programmes in various contexts including Sierra Leone, the Philippines, Malawi, Mumbai, and Uganda. In the episode we discuss the importance of collaboration within deployment of aid in Ukraine, the cluster approach designated and coordinated by the United Nations Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC). We also talk about

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00:48:45

Safety and Security during Humanitarian Missions with...

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2022/03/30

Richard Garner is a career safety and security professional with global expertise in risk mitigation and threat management. He retired from US Naval Special Operations and continued work in both high threat and personal protection operations domestically and abroad. Mr. Garner has managed and conducted security operations in support of non profit organisations, the US State Department and other government agencies. Having visited or worked in excess of 100 nations he brings a unique perspective to

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00:55:51

The Eye of the Storm: Ocular Emergencies in...

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2022/03/23

in this episode, host Stephen P Wood and Dr. Pav Singh discuss ocular emergencies in expedition medicine. although a lot of attention is paid to high altitude cerebral edema, pulmonary edema and mountain sickness, eye injuries are quite common in expedition medicine as well. This can include anything from corneal abrasions, globe injuries, foreign bodies or infections. Stephen and Dr. Singh discuss some of the more common injuries, how do I identify them, how to treat them and when it's important to

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00:38:21

The Ultra Running Registrar - A conversation with...

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2022/03/15

Beth is a professional trail runner and NHS paediatric registrar based in Derbyshire, UK. Some career highlights include setting the Bob Graham round record, two x top-5 finishes at the UTMB and several GB vests at ultra-distances.In 2021 she took some time out from medicine and headed to the US to prepare for the Western States 100 race. She won the race inthe second fastest women's time in history, despite temperatures over 40°C.She enjoys running with her Kelpie trail dogs and a bit of cycling

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00:42:53

Amazon Uncharted: Redefining the Explorer with Lucy...

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2022/03/07

Lucy is a 29 year old explorer and speaker from Suffolk and is not stranger to extreme environments having previously summited Denali, crossed the High Sierra in California and been dramatically airlifted from the mountains in Tajikistan. In this episode WEM Medical Director Dr Will Duffin speaks to Lucy about her most recent adventure in the Amazon: a world first trek - through 250 miles of virgin rainforest in Guyana’s Kanuku Mountains. They discuss what motivates Lucy, how she crafted a unique

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00:36:32

Racing across the Atlantic with the EmergenSEA Duo

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2022/02/28

World Extreme Medicine Medical Director, Dr Will Duffin catches up with Charlie and Adam, two ED Doctors who have just completed a 3,000 mile rowing race across the Atlantic. The Emergensea Duo, Dr Charlotte Fleury & Dr Adam Baker, are a husband and wife pair of Emergency Medicine specialty doctors in Devon. You may have seen them recently become the first married couple in the world to complete the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge, a 3000 mile unassisted row across the Atlantic Ocean (having

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00:42:45

Gender Equity in Mountaineering with Julie Rak

World Extreme Medicine Podcast ·

2022/02/22

In this episode, Stephen Wood sits down with Julie Rak to discuss gender equity in mountaineering. Junko Tabei isn’t as much a household name as Edmund Hillary or Jon Krakauer, but she is one of the world’s most accomplished climbers. She was the first woman to summit Mt. Everest and has also the first woman to climb the seven summits. She is listed as a “housewife” in several sources, which couldn’t be further from the truth as she was an avid climber, environmentalist, author and teacher. This is

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01:04:08

The End of Blindness with Dr James Guzek MD and...

World Extreme Medicine Podcast ·

2022/02/10

Cataracts are the major cause of blindness and visual impairment in developing countries and contribute to more than 90% of the total disability adjusted life years. In 2020, an estimated 15.2 million (12.7-17.9) people worldwide aged 50+ years were blind due to cataract. In this episode, we talk with Dr James Guzek MD and Director AJ Martinson about the movie ‘The End of Blindness’ and the work being done in Ethiopia to combat cataract-related blindness. We talk about the awe-inspiring precision

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00:35:40

Anaphylaxis: The new Wilderness Medical Society...

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2022/02/07

In this episode Will Duffin and Eoin Walker talk about the recently released 'Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines on Anaphylaxis'. They examine and analyse the paper's remit, cohort involved, methodological structure,guideline recommendations, and variations compared to other guidelines (NICE, Resuscitation Council).One of the key seminal recommendations that are not mentioned in the episode but the hosts fundamentally agree with is the training of non-medical personnel to

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00:36:51

The wide-ranging benefits of taking part in...

World Extreme Medicine Podcast ·

2022/02/01

In this episode WEM Medical Director Dr Will Duffin is joined by two experienced humanitarian emergency medical responders from frontline medical aid charity UK-Med: Emergency Department nurse and UK-Med’s Health Referent David Anderson and Consultant Paediatrician - Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Stephen Owens. They discuss the findings of UK Med’s Global Health Responders Report (Sept 2021) and reflect on their own experiences of humanitarian deployments and how releasing NHS staff to do this

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00:50:47

My Guyana adventure, lessons from the amazon with...

World Extreme Medicine Podcast ·

2022/01/17

Harrison Carter is a conservation biologist, storyteller and explorer with a fascination with human/wildlife conflict that has taken him to some of the world's most extraordinary places. He has travelled and filmed in over 50 countries worldwide, and his expeditions include traversing the Guyanese jungle, Indonesian rainforests, and Sri Lankan lowlands in search of the world's most deadly snakes and their stories.Starting hiscareerinInvestment Banking and Management Consultancy, Harrison is now

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00:34:12

Taking the Path Less Travelled with Alex Taylor

World Extreme Medicine Podcast ·

2022/01/07

Alex is a trainee emergency medicine doctor based in Bristol, who wholeheartedly believes in taking the road less travelled. She joins us to share some of her insights into carving a career in expedition medicine, and how developing this passion has enhanced her NHS job. She has been working as an expedition medic since 2017 and took five years out of training to work for 18 months in New Zealand and then as an expedition medicine clinical fellow in Bristol. She has an additional interest in

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