Environmental Cold-Induced Injury

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 247-267

  Jurkovich, Gregory J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ALOE VERA EXTRACT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; IBUPROFEN; MAFENIDE; MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; NIFEDIPINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PENICILLIN G; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PRAZOSIN; RESERPINE; SULFADIAZINE SILVER; THROMBOXANE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TOLAZOLINE;

AMPUTATION; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLD INJURY; COLD STRESS; CREAM; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXERCISE; HUMAN; HYDROTHERAPY; HYPOTHERMIA; INFECTION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SYMPATHECTOMY; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION; WARMING; WOUND DRESSING;

COLD; DEBRIDEMENT; FROSTBITE; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; REWARMING; SKIN TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33751218019     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2006.10.003     Document Type: Review

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