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

Autor: Ströhle M; 1 Department of General and Surgical Critical Care Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University , Innsbruck, Austria ., Putzer G; 2 Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University , Innsbruck, Austria ., Procter E; 3 EURAC Institute of Mountain Emergency Medicine , Bolzano, Italy ., Paal P; 2 Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University , Innsbruck, Austria .
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: High altitude medicine & biology [High Alt Med Biol] 2015 Dec; Vol. 16 (4), pp. 356-7. Date of Electronic Publication: 2015 Jul 28.
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2015.0007
Abstrakt: Avalanche victims can become hypothermic within 35 minutes of snow burial. However, reported cooling rates for avalanche victims are highly variable and it is poorly understood how much cooling is influenced by general factors (body composition, clothing, ambient conditions, duration of burial, and metabolism), unknown inter-individual factors or other phenomena (e.g., afterdrop). We report an apparent cooling rate of ∼7°C in ∼60 minutes in a healthy backcountry skier who was rewarmed with forced air and warm fluids and was discharged after 2 weeks without neurological sequelae.
Databáze: MEDLINE