Crews Rescue Five Trapped in Virginia Cave
CLEVELAND, Va. (AP) — Authorities say five men have been rescued from a cave in southwest Virginia where they became trapped after heavy rains.
Virginia Department of Emergency Management search-and-rescue coordinator Billy Chrimes said Sunday evening that all five men were taken to hospitals after being pulled from the cave Sunday, one by air transport. Chrimes said they were suffering from hypothermia and exhaustion.
Officials say six men entered Cyclops Cave near Cleveland and had planned to camp overnight Saturday until conditions worsened because of drenching rains. The rains also made it difficult for them to get o...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - April 30, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Rescue & Vehicle Extrication News Operations Source Type: news
Crews Rescue Five Trapped in Virginia Cave
CLEVELAND, Va. (AP) — Authorities say five men have been rescued from a cave in southwest Virginia where they became trapped after heavy rains.
Virginia Department of Emergency Management search-and-rescue coordinator Billy Chrimes said Sunday evening that all five men were taken to hospitals after being pulled from the cave Sunday, one by air transport. Chrimes said they were suffering from hypothermia and exhaustion.
Officials say six men entered Cyclops Cave near Cleveland and had planned to camp overnight Saturday until conditions worsened because of drenching rains. The rains also made it difficult for them to get o...
Source: JEMS Operations - April 30, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Rescue & Vehicle Extrication News Operations Source Type: news
Early prophylactic hypothermia for patients with severe traumatic injury: premature to close the case - Chin SM, Wion D.
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Language: en... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 29, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
QinFlow's Warrior is Proud to Be 100% Aluminum Free
PLANO, Texas — A recent study concluded that “using uncoated aluminum plates in fluid‐warming systems can lead to a risk of administering potentially harmful concentrations of aluminum when balanced crystalloid solutions are used” and that “even in a coated warming device, aluminum concentrations are detectable, but remain below the limit of quantification, LOQ (i.e. our methodology does not have the ability to differentiate between the concentrations we measured and the FDA threshold)” (Aluminium release by coated and uncoated fluid‐warming devices, T. Perl, N. Kunze‐Szikszay, A. Bräuer, M. Quintel, A. ...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - April 8, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: QinFlow (press release) Tags: Patient Care Press Releases Source Type: news
Predictors of hypothermia upon trauma centre arrival in severe trauma patients transported to hospital via EMS - Forristal C, Aarsen KV, Columbus M, Wei J, Vogt K, Mal S.
INTRODUCTION: Hypothermia in severe trauma patients can increase mortality by 25%. Active warming practices decrease mortality and are recommended in the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) guidelines. Despite this, many emergency medical services (EMS) ve... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 6, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Thai Cave Rescue: Details for Preventing Hypothermia, Panic Thai Cave Rescue: Details for Preventing Hypothermia, Panic
The medical team sedated the boys with ketamine to prevent the boys ' panic and reduce concerns about arrhythmia or medication-related drops in body temperature.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Emergency Medicine Headlines)
Source: Medscape Emergency Medicine Headlines - April 3, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Emergency Medicine News Source Type: news
First Aid Management of Accidental Hypothermia and Cold Injuries
Source: World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM). Published: 3/28/2019.
The audience for this one-hour, two-minute presentation is any pre-hospital first responder, whether a layperson or a health professional, to understand the updated Australian Resuscitation Council Guidelines for hypothermia and cold injuries. It describes the important distinction between “accidental hypothermia” and “induced hypothermia” as used in special circumstances in medical practice; the staging of accidental hypothermia; and the symptoms of heat loss.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - March 28, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Prehospital Management of Accidental Hypothermia and Cold Injuries
Source: World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM). Published: 3/28/2019.
The audience for this one-hour, two-minute presentation is any pre-hospital first responder, whether a layperson or a health professional, to understand the updated Australian Resuscitation Council Guidelines for hypothermia and cold injuries. It describes the important distinction between “accidental hypothermia” and “induced hypothermia” as used in special circumstances in medical practice; the staging of accidental hypothermia; and the symptoms of heat loss.
(Video or Multimedia) (Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide fo...
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - March 28, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Epinephrine at 25 °C core body temperature and during rewarming: case report of successful infant resuscitation after cold water submersion - Mann C, Baer W, Riedel T.
Epinephrine plays a controversial role in accidental hypothermia (... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 6, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news
Death rates attributed to excessive cold or hypothermia among persons aged ≥15 years, by urbanization level and age group -- National Vital Statistics System, 2015-2017 - Cdcmmwr.
During 2015-2017, death rates attributed to excessive cold or hypothermia increased steadily with age among those aged ≥15 years in both metropolitan and nonmetropolitan counties.
Language: en... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 27, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Environmental Issues, Climate, Geophysics Source Type: news
Neuroprotective Effects of Targeted Temperature Management
Hypothermia has a number of potential neuroprotective effects; however, they can be broken down into two main properties: metabolic and neuronal protection.
When mammals hibernate, they experience acidosis both from lactate and carbon dioxide, resulting in hypoxia and hypoglycemia. These conditions are not unlike those that occur post-cardiac arrest: Hypothermia decreases metabolic rate by about 6% per 1 degree C reduction in brain temperature. If blood flow and demand are coupled, it’s possible to see a 50% decline in cerebral metabolic after cooling the brain to 32 degrees C.
The protective effects occur via reduction ...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - February 27, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Brian J. O ’Neil, MD, FACEP, FAHA Tags: Cardiac & Resuscitation Top Story Exclusive Articles Patient Care Heart of America Source Type: news
QuickStats: Death Rates Attributed to Excessive Cold or Hypothermia Among Persons Aged ≥15 Years, by Urbanization Level and Age Group --- National Vital Statistics System, 2015--2017
During 2015-2017, death rates attributed to excessive cold or hypothermia increased steadily with age among those aged ≥15 years in both metropolitan and nonmetropolitan counties. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - February 21, 2019 Category: American Health Tags: Hyperthermia MMWR Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Death Rates Source Type: news
Hiker Recalls Being Stuck in Quicksand in Utah Park
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man who was stranded for hours in frigid weather with his leg sunk up to the knee in quicksand at a creek in Utah's Zion National Park said Tuesday that he feared he would lose his leg and might die because the quicksand's water was so cold.
Ryan Osmun, 34, of Mesa, Arizona, told NBC's "Today" show that he hallucinated at one point while waiting several hours alone after his girlfriend Jessika McNeill left him last Saturday to get help.
"I thought for sure I would lose my leg," Osmun said. "And then toward the end I thought I wasn't going to make it."
Quicksand can fo...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - February 20, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Rescue & Vehicle Extrication News Patient Care Operations Source Type: news
Hiker Recalls Being Stuck in Quicksand in Utah Park
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man who was stranded for hours in frigid weather with his leg sunk up to the knee in quicksand at a creek in Utah's Zion National Park said Tuesday that he feared he would lose his leg and might die because the quicksand's water was so cold.
Ryan Osmun, 34, of Mesa, Arizona, told NBC's "Today" show that he hallucinated at one point while waiting several hours alone after his girlfriend Jessika McNeill left him last Saturday to get help.
"I thought for sure I would lose my leg," Osmun said. "And then toward the end I thought I wasn't going to make it."
Quicksand can fo...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - February 20, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Rescue & Vehicle Extrication News Patient Care Operations Source Type: news
Hiker Recalls Being Stuck in Quicksand in Utah Park
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man who was stranded for hours in frigid weather with his leg sunk up to the knee in quicksand at a creek in Utah's Zion National Park said Tuesday that he feared he would lose his leg and might die because the quicksand's water was so cold.
Ryan Osmun, 34, of Mesa, Arizona, told NBC's "Today" show that he hallucinated at one point while waiting several hours alone after his girlfriend Jessika McNeill left him last Saturday to get help.
"I thought for sure I would lose my leg," Osmun said. "And then toward the end I thought I wasn't going to make it."
Quicksand can fo...
Source: JEMS Operations - February 20, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Rescue & Vehicle Extrication News Patient Care Operations Source Type: news
