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Posts in category Assorted Flotsam and Jetsam

Tourniquets and Hemorrhage Control

Sep 19, 2020 ~ Author Surfing Medicine Staff
on the beach

Bleeding from an injury can be quite alarming, particularly for a surfer in the water where assessing an injury and quantifying the amount of bleeding can be difficult. Any significant bleeding should prompt a return to shore to further assessment. Most hemorrhage can be controlled by applying pressure directly over the wound […]

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Posted in Acute Surfing Injury

No Other Options (a true story)

Aug 31, 2018 ~ Author Robert Lawson, MD

It was the summer of 1970 and I had just graduated from Glendale High School in California. I had been working at the Glendale YMCA as a lifeguard and a swimming instructor for two years, and just finished teaching a Water Safety Instructors class. My younger brother Jim was one of my students. I talked […]

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Tagged Drowning, Evacuation, Surfing Injury

Druku’s Life

Aug 29, 2016 ~ Author Ethan Wilson, MD

The Tavarua community and the worldwide surfing community are mourning the passing of Ratu Sakiusa Nadruku Lalabalavu, or as he was know to many, Chief Druku, the chief of Tavarua Island. He was Tavarua’s oldest staff member, and he was one of the first Fijian surfers. He was, and always will be, the heart and […]

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Druku: SMA Remembers a Great Man

Aug 29, 2016 ~ Author Simon Leslie

Druku had a purpose led life and in the end a peaceful death. Born Ratu Sakiusa Nadruku Lalabalavu on 23rd July 1952 in the village of Yako, he spent his childhood in Nabila where his father was a copra farmer. Originally from Cuvu, the chiefly village of the province of Nadroga to which both Yako […]

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The SMA Scholarship Program

Dec 09, 2014 ~ Author Surfing Medicine Staff
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Paula Smith, LVN and former Director of the SMA is an icon in Fiji. In several villages, people or school children see her or her profile and they get excited at her presence. For better than 25 years, Paula has coordinated the annual SMA conference in Fiji, at Tavarua. Paula was instrumental in helping to […]

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Keeping the Stoke: Dealing with Declining Competence in the Aging Surfer

Oct 30, 2013 ~ Author Bill Jones, et al.

This conversation was started several months ago after the Tubesteak Tracy article in The Surfing Medicine Journal #25 was published. Following are some suggestions to enhance the surfing experience for maturing SMA members. Focus on more quality wave experience rather than the quantity. Look at alternative sports and activities that are water oriented. Kayaking, SUP […]

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Tagged Aging, Surfing

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