Portable prehospital methods to treat near-hypothermic shivering cold casualties

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 125-130

  Oliver, Samuel J ^a   Brierley, Jennifer L ^a   Raymond Barker, Philippa C ^a   Dolci, Alberto ^a   Walsh, Neil P ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

frostbite; hypothermia; multiple trauma; rewarming; thermogenesis; wilderness medicine

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BODY TEMPERATURE; COLD; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZATION; SHIVERING; SKIN TEMPERATURE; WARMING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY TEMPERATURE; COLD TEMPERATURE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REWARMING; SHIVERING; SKIN TEMPERATURE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84959463801     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wem.2015.11.012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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