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Medical clearance for remote and desert endurance events requires practitioners to evaluate unique environmental risks to safely guide participating adventurers.
This article outlines the unique risks of endurance events in wilderness and remote settings to help practitioners guide adventurers.
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Warrants consideration of unique environmental risks in pre-event screening; extends guidance for remote endurance events but leaves open prospective validation.
Endurance events are increasing in popularity in wilderness and remote settings, and participants face a unique set of potential risks for participation. The purpose of this article is to outline these risks and allow the practitioner to better guide the wilderness adventurer who is anticipating traveling to a remote or desert environment.
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Sedgwick et al. (2015) studied this question. Medical clearance for remote and desert endurance events requires practitioners to evaluate unique environmental risks to safely guide participating adventurers.
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