Racing across the Atlantic with the EmergenSEA Duo

World Extreme Medicine Podcast

World Extreme Medicine Medical Director, Dr Will Duffin catches up with Charlie and Adam, two ED Doctors who have just completed a 3,000 mile rowing race across the Atlantic.

The Emergensea Duo, Dr Charlotte Fleury & Dr Adam Baker, are a husband and wife pair of Emergency Medicine specialty doctors in Devon. You may have seen them recently become the first married couple in the world to complete the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge, a 3000 mile unassisted row across the Atlantic Ocean (having never rowed before). They both have a masters in Extreme Medicine and work as pre-hospital emergency medicine fellows with the Devon Air Ambulance and as honorary senior clinical research fellows with the University of Exeter. When they aren’t working they are itching for adventure and either on or in the water.

They talk about:

• What life has been like as frontline ed Docs in the lead up to doing this challenge
• How shift work as ED docs prepared them for the 2 hours on 2 Hours off routine during the row
• Why they thought a massive ship was bearing down on them…. Then realised it was the moon.
• How they operated as a close knit team during the challenge.
• Medical kit considerations and preparing for the threat of a Marlin spike piercing the hull
• What research work they conducted on board including mood states and rates of perceived exertion.
• How they celebrated Christmas and New Year at sea
• A ‘sneak peak’ on what we can expect to hear in their presentation at this years conference. ‘
• How completing the Masters in Extreme Medicine helped prepare them for this extreme challenge.

You can meet Charlie and Adam IN PERSON at the World Extreme Medicine Conference 2022! More details…

World Extreme Medicine Conference 2022

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