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Accidental Hypothermia Simulation

MedEdPORTAL, 2013
This resource is an emergency medicine simulation designed to provide residents with a clinical experience that simulates diagnosis and treatment of hypothermia with septic joint in a patient presenting with altered mental status.
Deann Hoelscher, Raymond Ten Eyck
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Immersion and accidental hypothermia.

Acta Médica Portuguesa, 1979
The imrnersion or near-drowning syndrome is discussed and found to be closely related with accidental hypothermia. Pathophysiology and clinical picture of both are discussed, and particular emphasis is done to the treatment.
Knud Jessen
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Optimized life support in accidental general hypotermia (scientific and literature review)

Медицина неотложных состояний, 2022
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the conditions of accidental general hypothermia of an organism represents a certain medico-social problem of the present.
O.V. Kravets, V.V. Yekhalov, V.A. Sedinkin   +2 more
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Accidental Hypothermia [PDF]

Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 2005
Hypothermia is a multi-system disorder that significantly increases morbidity and mortality in the injured patient. It is an environmental hazard that can kill in its own right. The most difficult differentiation and management decisions are likely to be with victims in Stage II or Stage III hypothermia.
P R, Davis, M, Byers
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Facts and Fiction: The Impact of Hypothermia on Molecular Mechanisms following Major Challenge

Mediators of Inflammation, 2012
Numerous multiple trauma and surgical patients suffer from accidental hypothermia. While induced hypothermia is commonly used in elective cardiac surgery due to its protective effects, accidental hypothermia is associated with increased posttraumatic ...
Michael Frink, Sascha Flohé, Martijn van Griensven, Philipp Mommsen, Frank Hildebrand   +4 more
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The development and validation of a “5A” severity scale for predicting in-hospital mortality after accidental hypothermia from J-point registry data

Journal of Intensive Care, 2019
Background Accidental hypothermia is a serious condition that requires immediate and accurate assessment to determine severity and treatment. Currently, accidental hypothermia is evaluated using the Swiss grading system which uses core body temperature ...
Yohei Okada, Tasuku Matsuyama, Sachiko Morita, Naoki Ehara, Nobuhiro Miyamae, Takaaki Jo, Yasuyuki Sumida, Nobunaga Okada, Makoto Watanabe, Masahiro Nozawa, Ayumu Tsuruoka, Yoshihiro Fujimoto, Yoshiki Okumura, Tetsuhisa Kitamura, Shungo Yamamoto, Ryoji Iiduka, Kaoru Koike   +16 more
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Iatrogenic third-degree burn caused by off-label use of an infrared radiant heat lamp in a patient with accidental hypothermia

Burns Open, 2021
We report a case of third-degree burn involving 5% of the total body surface area caused by off-label use of Hanautherm®, an infrared radiant heat lamp for bed-warming, in a patient with severe accidental hypothermia.
Kosuke Ishikawa, Taku Maeda, Toshihiko Hayashi, Ryuji Shichinohe, Naoki Murao, Masahiro Hojo, Riri Ito, Masayuki Osawa, Yuhei Yamamoto, Emi Funayama   +9 more
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Successful resuscitation of an elderly man with deep accidental hypothermia using portable extracorporeal circulation in the emergency department: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2008
Introduction Deep accidental hypothermia (body temperature below 28°C) is rare and has a high mortality rate. Successful resuscitation usually occurs in the young, but a prompt intervention using a portable extracorporeal cardiopulmonary circulation ...
Cooper Simone S, Papadimos Thomas J, Campbell Jeffery A, Cerilli Gregory J, Omer Shuab, Braida Anthony L, Hassan Ali M   +6 more
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Deep accidental hypothermia accompanied with cardiac arrest after alcohol and drug poisoning treated with extracorporeal life support

Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2018
Deep accidental hypothermia is an unusual clinical entity in developed countries. We report a case of a 30 year old male Caucasian patient with accidental severe hypothermia who was transferred to the emergency department of our hospital after prolonged ...
Konstantinos Grapatsas, Vasileios Leivaditis, Ioannis Panagiotopoulos, Konstantinos Spiliotopoulos, Efstratios Koletsis, Manfred Dahm, Christoforos Kosmidis, Stella Laskou, Paul Zarogoulidis, Athanasios Katsaounis, Efstathios Pavlidis, Dimitrios Giannakidis, Charilaos Koulouris, Stylianos Mantalovas, Fotis Konstantinou, Aikaterini Amaniti, Alexandru Munteanu, Valeriou Surlin, Konstantinos Sapalidis, Isaak Kesisoglou   +19 more
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Maternal hypothermia from environmental exposure in the third trimester

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2020
A primigravida at 32 weeks gestation developed hypothermia after prolonged exposure to the elements at -30.0°C. Her core temperature dropped to 29.8°C with associated foetal bradycardia.
Margot Rosenthal, Vanessa Poliquin, Adelicia Yu   +2 more
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