Accidental hypothermia: Rewarming treatments, complications and outcomes from one university medical centre

Resuscitation

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1550-1555

  Van der Ploeg, Gert Jan ^a   Goslings, J Carel ^b   Walpoth, Beat H ^c   Bierens, Joost J L M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Accidental hypothermia; Complications; Outcome; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL HYPOTHERMIA; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLD EXPOSURE; CONVULSION; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IMMERSION; INJURY; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; INTOXICATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER FAILURE; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PARALYTIC ILEUS; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WARMING; WATER IMMERSION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REWARMING; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78149416747     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.05.023     Document Type: Article

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