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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…
Dr. Sarah Spelsberg serves as the Director of U.S. Operations for World Extreme Medicine, the medical lead for Project NEPTUNE 100, works part time in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Mayo Clinic where she holds the academic rank of Assistant Professor and is a Wilderness Emergency Medicine physician.