Clinical Practice Guidelines from WMS

A physician and clinical educator in Greater Jacksonville, Florida, Dr. Richard Delacruz provides ER care through the Titan Emergency Group and teaches as an associate professor with the OPMC graduate medical education program. Dr. Richard Delacruz holds active membership in the Wilderness Medical Society (WMS).

For roughly four decades, the Wilderness Medical Society has been working to further the scientific knowledge and public outreach on subjects related to human health in a wilderness setting. Its Wilderness Medicine Clinical Practice Guidelines have proven an important part of these endeavors.

The WMS published the first edition of WMS Practice Guidelines for Wilderness Emergency Care to aid in the management of health problems in the wilderness and address specific wilderness-related physical trauma and illness. In 2017, the WMS began publishing its Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) in its official journal, Wilderness & Environmental Medicine. This transformed its CPG into an evidence-based and peer-reviewed resource relevant to scholarly medical literature. In 2014, the WMS updated its CPG in a Wilderness & Environmental Medicine supplement, covering issues that range from acute altitude sickness to lightning injuries.