Do you have your emergency nutritional kit ready to go?  Listen as nutrition professor Kary Woodruff answers this and other important questions in the second installment of nutrition in the wilderness. 

Have you ever thought about what you should be eating and drinking when you go off into the wilderness?  Listen to nutrition professor, Kary Woodruff talk about the fundamentals of wilderness nutrition.  

Ultrasound is essential in hospital medicine, but can it be used in wilderness and austere settings?  What are the advantages and what are the challenges of bringing ultrasound into the backcountry? Listen as  Nicholas Weinberg, MD, Johndavid (Jd) Storn, MD and Jennifer Wray from the Emergency Medicine Department at Dartmouth-Hitchcock discuss this exciting topic. 

A cliff, a patient, unknown location and confusing symptoms.  This is an instructive story of a recuse high in the Wasatch Mountains, told by Dan Hadley of Salt Lake County Sherriff Search and Rescue. 

How do you go about looking for someone who is lost of injured in the backcountry?  For example, knowing the last known position of a person is essential.  This podcasts talks about the basics of search techniques.  

Searching and then rescuing someone starts with knowing how different people of different ages will behave when they get lost.  In this podcast  Dr. Jason Tanner outlines the behavior of lost individuals. 

This podcast tells of an eight hour rescue of a brother and sister who were going to freeze to death were it not for the expertise of the SAR team.  Listen as Dan Hadley recounts this fascinating and instructive story.

You have to know how to be safe if you are going to look for someone who is lost and try to rescue them.  This podcasts outlines the steps to remain safe as you put yourself at risk. 

All it takes is a snail, a worm and some freshwater to become infected. Once you are, the disease could persist for decades -- and prove fatal. The culprits come as a pair: freshwater snails harboring parasitic worms.  People cannot do their wilderness travel without knowing about this very prevalent disease. This podcast will tell you what you need to know. 

These are very important emerging diseases.  But before we discuss them, we must first ask where do emerging diseases typically come from?  The answer, they come from animals. Scientists estimate that more than six out of every ten known infectious diseases in people are spread from animals. We talk about this and more in this important podcast.