Wilderness Medicine Updates

About Wilderness Medicine Updates

The podcast for medical providers at the edges, bringing you digestible updates at the growing edge of Wilderness Medicine, Wilderness EMS, Search and Rescue, and more.

Publisher

Patrick Fink, MD

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Jan 2023

Latest episode

10 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

40 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Sept 2026

   Ep. 34 - Icy Hot, a case of Heat Illness with Dr. Gavin Clark and Dr. Nick Daniel

   Dr. Patrick Fink interviews Dr. Nick Daniel and Dr. Gavin Clark about an in-hospital case of exertional heat stroke in a mid-20s runner who collapsed just before the finish of an October New England half marathon in 45°F weather. EMS treated presumed SVT with adenosine, but in the ED the patient was hypotensive, profoundly diaphoretic, and altered; an oral temperature was normal while a rectal core temperature was 105.5°F, highlighting that peripheral temps can’t rule out heat stroke. W...

2. 

   25 Aug 2026

   Fast Push #5 - TCCC Tourniquet Update

   Forty to seventy-five percent of tourniquets placed in the field are never actually needed. In Ukraine, tourniquets left on too long during delayed evacuations have cost people limbs that the original wound never would have. This fast push covers the new May 2026 TCCC Guidelines update and two CoTCCC training briefs on tourniquets, built around lessons from prolonged evacuations in the Russo-Ukrainian war. Topics: telling truly life-threatening bleeding from bleeding that just looks bad, the ...

3. 

   30 Jul 2026

   Ep. 33 - Heat Illness Fundamentals: Recognize the Spectrum, Cool First, Transport Second

   Dr. Patrick Fink reviews the spectrum of heat illness using 2024 Wilderness Medical Society guidelines, covering recognition, physiology, field treatment, and key mimics. He distinguishes heat edema, heat cramps (salt-depletion vs exercise-associated), heat syncope and exercise-associated collapse, and defines heat exhaustion by preserved mental status versus heat stroke by altered mental status in a heat context, warning not to wait for a temperature threshold. He explains heat stroke pathop...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

42

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

36 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

44 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 47 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

48

Social presence

0

YouTube

63

Engagement

51

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