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		<title>The CWS Blog has Moved!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>CWS to Sponsor 2010 Student Wilderness Medicine Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Conference is an exciting opportunity for medical students and health care professionals to learn about and gain hands-on experience treating patients in extreme environments...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildsafe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6010993&amp;post=51&amp;subd=wildsafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does Aspirin really help against a Heart Attack?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chewable aspirin is absorbed faster and is more effective than regular aspirin that is either swallowed whole or chewed and then swallowed, a new study shows. This "seemingly quite simple finding" could lead to improvements in the care of heart attack patients, researchers say. Sean Nordt, MD, of the University of California, San Diego, and colleagues, gave three different types of aspirin to 14 people between ages of 20 and 61...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildsafe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6010993&amp;post=44&amp;subd=wildsafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Donate Blood! Save a life!&#8230;. TODAY!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At many blood donor services, you can choose to donate whole blood or just specific blood components. All donations are greatly needed and appreciated.

<strong>Whole blood</strong>
The main components that make up blood are red cells, platelets, plasma, and white cells. When most people give blood, they give a pint of “whole blood” which means a donation containing all four blood...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildsafe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6010993&amp;post=46&amp;subd=wildsafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Wilderness Evacuation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has occured to me that a lot of emphasis is put on &#8220;macguyvering&#8221; or using whatever you have to self-evacuate a patient to definitive care. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, many wilderness first aid classes that I&#8217;ve seen have done a really great job of making some very creative (and sometimes even effictive) make-shift spine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildsafe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6010993&amp;post=45&amp;subd=wildsafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To DO or Not to DO: All about DNR&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since this topic has now come up several times in greater detail than I had anticipated in going into during CPR &#38; Wilderness First Aid classes, I figured that I would pass this information on to you all regarding the American Red Cross’s stance on Do Not Resuscitate orders and what you as a lay-responder [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildsafe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6010993&amp;post=37&amp;subd=wildsafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Re-Up my WFA cert early&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 19:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what prompted me to renew my cert almost a year early: Yesterday our kids were out riding motorcycles in the neighbor’s backyard on the small motocross course they have set up. One of the neighbor boys, Marshall, overshot the tabletop and crashed, went over the handlebars, and landed on his head. Garrett knew [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildsafe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6010993&amp;post=34&amp;subd=wildsafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Psychology Study done by local High School students</title>
		<link>http://wildsafe.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/psychology-study-done-by-local-high-school-students/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["...when he got home, he had to stop for a minute and wonder: what would’ve happened if it was real? It hit him pretty hard."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildsafe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6010993&amp;post=23&amp;subd=wildsafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bones</title>
		<link>http://wildsafe.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/bones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With bones, we have only 1 basic thing that can happen: fractures. Fractures can be either simple (broken or cracked &#8211; but still under the skin) &#8211; or compound (an obvious break; usually showing through the skin). Either way, we need to make certain that the patient is comfortable, and that we stabilize the fracture [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildsafe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6010993&amp;post=15&amp;subd=wildsafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A New Partner: Lake Fairfax Park</title>
		<link>http://wildsafe.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/new-partners-fcpa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Center for Wilderness Safety</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re very excited about our new partnership between the Center for Wilderness Safety and Lake Fairfax Park in Reston, VA!  We will now be offering a number of course available to the public starting in February of 2009. Those courses will include many American Red Cross and Wilderness Medicine courses that will be offered not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildsafe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6010993&amp;post=8&amp;subd=wildsafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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