Research

Filiberti AA, Davis SC, Spano SJ. Smoke Exposure and Respirator Use Among Wildland Firefighters: A Narrative Review. Wilderness Environ Med. 2025 Apr 23:10806032251326825. doi: 10.1177/10806032251326825. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40267327.

Davis SC, Mortimer RB, Spano SJ. Proposed Standardization of Protocols for Carbon Monoxide Studies: In Response to A Field Study of Carbon Monoxide Levels in Snow Caves During Short-Term Stove Use by Nielsen and Karlsen. Wilderness Environ Med. 2025 Mar;36(1):142-143. PMID: 39540252.

Lareau S, Diaz P, Chan-Golston AM, Spano S. Graduate Medical Education Fellowships Versus Specialty Society Curriculum: A Comparative Study on Alumni Outcomes and Academic Pursuits in Wilderness Medicine. Wilderness Environ Med. 2025 Jun 12: Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40509771.

Bauman J, Spano S, Storkan M. Heat-Related Illnesses. Emerg Med Clin North Am. 2024 Aug;42(3):485-492.

Binder WD, Spano SJ. Broadening Perspectives on Analgesia in Mass Casualty Incidents: A Response to Reader Feedback. Wilderness Environ Med. 2024 Mar 27:10806032241242224. doi: 10.1177/10806032241242224. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38533541.  

Fischer M, Storkan M. In Response to "Intranasal Fentanyl for On-the-Hill Analgesia by Ski Patrol". Wilderness Environ Med. 2024 Mar;35(1):106-107. doi: 10.1177/10806032231222375. Epub 2024 Jan 9. PMID: 38379477.

Binder WD, Kenefick RW, Rodway GW, Spano SJ. Changing Times and Shifting Priorities: Promoting Gender Equity at Wilderness & Environmental Medicine. Wilderness Environ Med. 2023;34(1):3-4. doi:10.1016/j.wem.2023.02.002

Dove A, Castaneda R, Spano S. Professional Outcomes and Satisfaction Among Graduate Medical Education Wilderness Medicine Fellowship Alumni in the United States. Wilderness Environ Med. 2022; 33(2):154-62. PMID: 35314106

Ettinger S, Long A, Ganti A, Mortimer RB, Chiang W, Spano S. Search and Rescue in the Pacific West States. Wilderness Environ Med. 2022; 33(1):43-49. doi: 10.1016/j.wem.2021.11.003. PMID: 34955362

Davis CA, Lareau S, Haston T, Ganti A, Spano SJ. Implementation of a Specialty Society‒Sponsored Wilderness Medicine Fellowship Match. Wilderness Environ Med. 2022 Dec 14:S1080-6032(22)00199-5. doi: 10.1016/j.wem.2022.10.007. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36526517.

Bunzel W, Spano S, Filiberti A, Ioannides K. In Response to "The Associations Between Visitation, Social Media Use, and Search and Rescue in United States National Parks". Wilderness Environ Med. 2022 Dec;33(4):489-490. doi: 10.1016/j.wem.2022.06.004. Epub 2022 Oct 13. PMID: 36243541.

Ganti A, Davis HE, Musi ME, Spano SJ. Epidemiology of ice climbing injuries among recreational ice climbers at the 2019 Ouray Ice Climbing Festival. Wilderness Environ Med. 2021;32(2):181-186. doi: 10.1016/j.wem.2021.01.010. Epub 2021 May 8. PMID: 33972162.

Spano SJ, Seymer JA, Crane DH, Auerbach PS. Impact of a Half Dome Cable Permitting Process on Search an d Rescue Activity, Hiker Mortality Rates, and Operational Costs Above Little Yosemite Valley. Wilderness Environ Med. 2019 Mar 4. pii: S1080-6032(18)30218-7. PMID: 30846401 

Young M, Kim T, Lessard E, Campagne D, Spano S, Farshidpour L, Stroh G. E Emergency Medical Services and Remote Medical Oversight in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, 2011-2013. Wilderness Environ Med. 2018 Oct. pii: S1080-6032(18)30116-9. PMID: 30309823.

Richardson G, Spano S. Death on the Dome: Epidemiology of Recreational Deaths on Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. Wilderness Environ Med. 2018;28(4):369. DOI: 10.1016/j.wem.2017.08.020. PMID: 29887349

Storkan M, Spano S. Environmental and Navigational Problems Experienced by Long-Distance Backpackers in the Sierra Nevada (abstract). Academic Emergency Medicine. 2017;20(5):S21.

Spano S, Crane D, Seymer J, Auerbach P. Impact of a Half Dome Cable Permitting Process on Search and Rescue Activity, Hiker Mortality Rates, and Operational Costs above Little Yosemite Valley. (abstract). Academic Emergency Medicine. 2017;25(5):S21.

Meyer D, Constantino A, Spano S. Implicating Factors of Diarrheal Illness Among Long-Distance Backpackers in the Sierra Nevada. Wilderness Environmental Med. 2017;28(1):4-9.

Luck JB, Campagne D, Falcón­Banchs R, Montoya J, Spano SJ. Pressures of wilderness improvised wound irrigation techniques: how do they compare? Wilderness & Environmental Medicine. 2016 Dec; 27(4):476­481.

Meyer DJ, Young M. Expanding Wilderness Medicine Fellowship Eligibility Beyond Emergency Medicine. Wilderness Environ Med. 2016 Jun;27(2):338-40. PMID: 26961846

Weichenthal L, Crane D, Rond L. Needle Thoracostomy in the Prehospital Setting: A Retrospective Observational Study. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2016 May-Jun;20(3):399-403. PMID: 26807605

Sunde C, Spano S. Wilderness Care of Acute Traumatic Wounds Curriculum. Trauma Cases Rev. 2016; 2:039.

Spano, S: Medicine in the National Park Service. In Auerbach P, et al. (ed): Wilderness Medicine, 7th Edition, St Louis, Missouri, Elsevier Health Sciences USA, 2016.

Hooker R, Young M, Hendey G:  Hyperkalemia Frequently Presents as Symptomatic Bradycardia in the Prehospital Setting (abstract).  Academic Emergency Medicine 2015;22:S86.

Weichenthal L, Crane DH, Rond L, Roche C. Needle Thoracostomy for Patients with Prolonged Transport Times: A Case-control Study. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2015 Jul 8:1-5. PMID: 26152549

Campagne D, Young M, Wheeler J, Stroh G, Pediatric Tape: Accuracy and Medication delivery in the National Park Service. West JEM 2015 Sept(5):665-670.

Spano SJ, Vohra R, Macias F: Long-Term Complications of Rattlesnake Bites: A Telephone Survey From Central California. Wilderness Environ Med. 2014 Feb 4. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 24507436

Spano SJ, Dimock B: They Had Me in Stitches: A Grand Canyon River Guide’s Case Report and a Review of Wilderness Wound Management Literature. Wilderness Environ Med. 2014 Jan 10. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 24418453.

Spano SJ, Reagle Z, Evans T: Symptomatic hypotonic hyponatremia presenting at high altitude. Wilderness Environ Med. 2014 Mar;25(1):69-74. PMID: 24411978.

Spano S, Campagne D, Stroh G, Shalit M. A Lightning Multiple Casualty Incident in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Wilderness Environ Med. 2014 Sep 30. PMID: 25281586

Spano S, Macias F, Snowden B, Vohra R:  Snakebite Survivors Club: Retrospective Review of Rattlesnake Bites in Central California. Toxicon. 2013;69:38–41.

Vohra R, Spano S. Circus Venomous: A New Tool in Toxinology Education. Toxicon 2013;69:126-30.

Weichenthal L, Spano S, Horan B, Miss J:  Improvised Traction Splints:  A Wilderness Medicine Tool or Hindrance? Wilderness and Environmental Medicine 2012;23:61-64.

Weichenthal L, Spano S, Horan B, Schmitt E: EMS in Rural and Wilderness Areas. In Tintinalli J, et al. (ed): EMS, A Practical Global Guidebook, Shelton, Connecticut, People’s Medical Publishing House–USA, 2010:575-587.