Deep accidental hypothermia with core temperature below 24°c presenting with vital signs

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 58-63

  Pasquier, Mathieu ^a   Zurron, Noemi ^b   Weith, Barbara ^b   Turini, Pierre ^c   Dami, Fabrice ^a   Carron, Pierre Nicolas ^a   Paal, Peter ^d  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b Department of Anesthesiology Intensive Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine   (Switzerland)

^c Centre Hospitalier du Valais Romand   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Emergency medicine; Endovascular procedures; Hypothermia; Rewarming

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ACCIDENTAL HYPOTHERMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BREATHING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CORE TEMPERATURE; EGO DEVELOPMENT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY CARE; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MEDLINE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; STAGING; SURVIVAL; SURVIVOR; VITAL SIGN; WARMING; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; BLOOD; BODY TEMPERATURE; COMPLICATION; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; HYPOTHERMIA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; REWARMING;

EID: 84897142908     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: 15578682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2013.1085     Document Type: Article

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