Lessons from history: Morbidity of cold injury in the Royal Marines during the Falklands Conflict of 1982

Extreme Physiology and Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Golden, Francis St Clair ^a   Francis, Thomas James Roose ^b   Gallimore, Deborah ^c   Pethybridge, Roger ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b Diving Diseases Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF NAVAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cold sensitivity; Frostbite; Non battle related injury; Non freezing cold injury; Trench foot

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLD INJURY; COLD SENSITIVITY; EDEMA; FLUID INTAKE; HUMAN; HYPERHIDROSIS; INTERVIEW; MORBIDITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NUTRITION; PARESTHESIA; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; THERMOGRAPHY; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 84892368961     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20467648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2046-7648-2-23     Document Type: Article

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