Cooling rate of 9.4°C in an hour in an avalanche victim

Resuscitation

Volumn 93, Issue , 2015, Pages e17-e18

  Pasquier, Mathieu ^a   Moix, Paul André ^b   Delay, Dominique ^c   Hugli, Olivier ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b Air Glaciers SA et GRIMM Maison FXB du Sauvetage   (Switzerland)

^c Hopital de Sion   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AVALANCHE; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORE TEMPERATURE; DISASTER VICTIM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; LETTER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RETURN OF SPONTANEOUS CIRCULATION; WARMING; BODY TEMPERATURE; COMPLICATION; FATALITY; PROCEDURES; THERMOGRAPHY;

AVALANCHES; BODY TEMPERATURE; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; REWARMING; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84937518500     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2015.05.009     Document Type: Letter

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