It ’s Going to Feel like 50 Below in the Midwest This Week. Here’s What Extreme Cold Does to Your Body
Parts of the Midwest are bracing for their coldest temperatures in decades this week, with Tuesday night conditions predicted to feel like 50 degrees below zero or colder in areas of the Dakotas, Minnesota and Iowa, according to AccuWeather. Temperatures in Chicago are also predicted to dip below negative 25 for the first time since the mid-1980s, AccuWeather says.
Health officials have warned residents to stay indoors as much as possible, since the brutal cold can become dangerous in just minutes. But what actually happens to your body in the frigid air? TIME asked Dr. Ronald Furnival, a pediatric emergency physician and ...
Source: TIME: Health - January 28, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized healthytime onetime weather Source Type: news
Moderate Hypothermia Risky for Post-Stroke Swelling Surgery
(MedPage Today) -- Mortality and adverse events increased in randomized trial (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - January 22, 2019 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
How to protect yourself in dangerous freezing weather
The freezing weather slamming much of the country is posing serious health risks. The frigid temperatures can lead to hypothermia, compromise lung function, cause breathing problems, and trigger confusion and other neurological effects. Dr. Tara Narula joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss how you can protect yourself in the icy weather. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - January 22, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Mapping hypothermia death vulnerability in Korea - Park SJ, Kim DW, Deo RC, Lee JS.
Despite largely indisputable evidence of global warming, abnormally cold temperatures frequently affect regions of the Northern hemisphere. As a result of cold, several countries have sustained considerable property damage and numerous human fatalities. To... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Environmental Issues, Climate, Geophysics Source Type: news
Death Toll from Russian Building Collapse Stands at 39
MOSCOW (AP) — After three-and-a-half days of fighting a mountain of concrete, cold weather and time, rescue teams in an industrial Russian city ended a search for people who were inside an apartment building where an explosion triggered a partial collapse, giving a final death toll Thursday of 39.
The massive operation launched by the Russian Emergencies Ministry in the jumbled maze of rubble where a section of a 10-story building stood in Magnitogorsk until Monday morning combined sophisticated equipment with grueling manual labor.
Russian officials said from the start that emergency crews were racing to reach survivors...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - January 4, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: International Major Incidents News Source Type: news
Baby Rescued Nearly 36 Hours after Apartment Explosion and Collapse in Russia
MOSCOW (AP) — Laboring through sub-freezing temperatures, Russian rescue workers were digging into a sprawling heap of jagged rubble from a collapsed apartment building when one heard the faintest sound.
It was the sound of life.
On Tuesday, to everyone's delight and surprise, they pulled a baby boy out of the rubble alive, nearly 36 hours after the disaster that blew apart his home. His father called it "a New Year's miracle."
Photos: Rescue at Russian Apartment Explosion
The building collapse in the Russian city of Magnitogorsk before dawn Monday has killed at least nine people so far, and officials say 32 pe...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - January 2, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: International Major Incidents News Source Type: news
How Seniors Can Prevent Hypothermia This Winter
SUNDAY, Dec. 30, 2018 -- In winter, older adults are at higher risk of losing body heat and slipping into potentially fatal hypothermia, U.S. health officials warn.
Older people can lose body heat quickly and find it harder to recognize the signs,... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - December 30, 2018 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Police Officers Save Infant after Dad Said He Drowned Her
GREENWOOD, Mo. (AP) — Two Missouri officers saved the life of a 6-month-old girl whose father walked into their police station and said he had just drowned his daughter, authorities say.
Greenwood police Chief Greg Hallgrimson and Cpl. Tom Calhoun rushed to a pond where the man said he had drowned his daughter Monday and pulled her out, performed CPR and warmed her up until she started breathing, said Lt. Aaron Fordham, who called the baby's survival a "miracle."
He said the father, 28-year-old Jonathon Stephen Zicarelli, showed no emotion when he stunned officers with his report that he had left his dau...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - December 18, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Associated Press (via The Kansas City Star) Tags: Cardiac & Resuscitation News Videos Patient Care Source Type: news
Police Officers Save Infant after Dad Said He Drowned Her
GREENWOOD, Mo. (AP) — Two Missouri officers saved the life of a 6-month-old girl whose father walked into their police station and said he had just drowned his daughter, authorities say.
Greenwood police Chief Greg Hallgrimson and Cpl. Tom Calhoun rushed to a pond where the man said he had drowned his daughter Monday and pulled her out, performed CPR and warmed her up until she started breathing, said Lt. Aaron Fordham, who called the baby's survival a "miracle."
He said the father, 28-year-old Jonathon Stephen Zicarelli, showed no emotion when he stunned officers with his report that he had left his dau...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - December 18, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Associated Press (via The Kansas City Star) Tags: Cardiac & Resuscitation News Videos Patient Care Source Type: news
Stranded Man Rescued after Setting Fire on Mountain
SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee official says a man stranded for three days on a mountain after crashing an all-terrain vehicle has been rescued after setting a fire to draw rescuers to his location.
Walden Creek Fire Chief Tim Baker told news outlets that crews responded Monday evening to a report of a blaze on Bluff Mountain in Sevier County. He said it took volunteer firefighters about three hours to reach the man, who was suffering from hypothermia, a broken ankle and broken ribs. Baker said they got the injured man to an ambulance around 6:30 a.m. Tuesday.
State Division of Forestry crews battled the 20-acre b...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - December 4, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Associated Press/WVLT (video) Tags: Rescue & Vehicle Extrication News News Videos Source Type: news
Stranded Man Rescued after Setting Fire on Mountain
SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee official says a man stranded for three days on a mountain after crashing an all-terrain vehicle has been rescued after setting a fire to draw rescuers to his location.
Walden Creek Fire Chief Tim Baker told news outlets that crews responded Monday evening to a report of a blaze on Bluff Mountain in Sevier County. He said it took volunteer firefighters about three hours to reach the man, who was suffering from hypothermia, a broken ankle and broken ribs. Baker said they got the injured man to an ambulance around 6:30 a.m. Tuesday.
State Division of Forestry crews battled the 20-acre b...
Source: JEMS Operations - December 4, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Associated Press/WVLT (video) Tags: Rescue & Vehicle Extrication News News Videos Source Type: news
Microscopic examination of pituitary glands in cases of fatal accidental hypothermia - Doberentz E, Madea B.
In cases of death caused by hypothermia, histological analysis can be used to determine the cause of death. Certain histological alterations of the pituitary glands in hypothermia have been reported in the literature, including haemorrhage, hyperaemia and ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 4, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Environmental Issues, Climate, Geophysics Source Type: news
Is Cold and Dark Weather a Trigger for Heavy Drinking?
There is a commonly held belief that winter conditions — that are characterized by extreme cold and low sunlight — are connected to heavy drinking.
Whenever we think of countries in Northern Europe we instantly think of sub-zero temperatures, dark clouds and polar landscapes. We also imagine its inhabitants tucked in a bar drinking their sorrows away. What creates this image is the perception that strong spirits and binge drinking are a staple of many Northern countries.
However, scientific and factual evidence shows a more nuanced picture.
Statistical Verdict
The argument that countries with a colder climate e...
Source: Psych Central - November 29, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Claudiu Revnic Tags: Addictions Substance Abuse alcohol use Alcoholism heavy drinking Holiday Blues Holiday Season Public Health Winter Source Type: news
New'Cold Card' Helps First-Responders Treat Hypothermia New'Cold Card' Helps First-Responders Treat Hypothermia
Search and rescue teams and first responders have a new resource for assessing people who have been exposed to extreme cold.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Critical Care Headlines)
Source: Medscape Critical Care Headlines - November 20, 2018 Category: Intensive Care Tags: Emergency Medicine News Source Type: news
Hypothermia Use Falling in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Hypothermia Use Falling in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
There has been a decline in application of therapeutic hypothermia in people who experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, according to a large retrospective study.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Emergency Medicine Headlines)
Source: Medscape Emergency Medicine Headlines - November 20, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
