Apparent Cooling Rate of 7°C per Hour in an Avalanche Victim

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 356-357

  Ströhle, Mathias ^a   Putzer, Gabriel ^b   Procter, Emily ^c   Paal, Peter ^b  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

accidental; afterdrop; altitude; avalanche; hypothermia; immersion; rewarming

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; LACTIC ACID; NORADRENALIN; POTASSIUM; SNOW;

ACCIDENTAL HYPOTHERMIA; ADRENAL HEMORRHAGE; ADULT; ALKALOSIS; ALUMINUM FOIL; ARTERIAL PH; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AVALANCHE; AVALANCHE VICTIM; BACTERIAL SUPERINFECTION; BODY COMPOSITION; CASE REPORT; CLOTHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DISASTER VICTIM; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FRACTURE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LARYNGEAL TUBE; LUMBAR SPINE FRACTURE; LUNG INJURY; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOHEMATOTHORAX; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RIB FRACTURE; SKIING; SPINE FRACTURE; STERNUM FRACTURE; THERMAL REGULATING SYSTEM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TYMPANIC THERMOMETER; WARMING; HYPOTHERMIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; THERMOREGULATION; TIME FACTOR;

AVALANCHES; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REWARMING; RISK FACTORS; SKIING; SNOW; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84952029716     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: 15578682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2015.0007     Document Type: Article

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