Case Studies in Expedition Medicine: why every expedition needs a medic and what can happen when they don’t


Case Studies in Expedition Medicine: why every expedition needs a medic and what can happen when they don’t

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16/10/2026 00:00 - 00:00
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A researcher is bitten by a shark scuba diving in the South Pacific. A tourniquet is placed and left on for the 11 hour boat trip to Guam. Doctors want to amputate the arm. In a last ditch effort she calls her friend Dr De Silva in Gaza who happens to have WiFi briefly. He calls me who happens to be on night shift. I advise pumping the brakes on amputation because she is at the facility where they have a hyperbaric chamber…the hyperbaric doctor is consulted…