• Aviat Space Envir Md · Jul 1980

    Initial treatment of profound accidental hypothermia.

    • R M Harnett, E M O'Brien, F R Sias, and J R Pruitt.
    • Aviat Space Envir Md. 1980 Jul 1; 51 (7): 680-7.

    AbstractThe performance of inhalation, heating pads, plumbed garment, inhalation + heating pads, inhalation + plumbed garment, and body-to-body heat exchange rewarming were compared to trunk immersion and spontaneous rewarming under laboratory conditions with mildly cooled volunteers. The experiment included 72 rewarmings. Trunk immersion exhibited the smallest afterdrop, shortest recovery period, and most rapid rewarming. Of the therapies suitable for use in the field, small afterdrops were seen with inhalation, inhalation + plumbed garment, inhalation + heating pads, and spontaneous rewarming. The largest afterdrops were seen with the heating pads and plumbed garment. Body-to-body heat exchange was seen to produce somewhat larger afterdrops than spontaneous rewarming. It is concluded that heating pads and plumbed garment should not be used in treatment of profound hypothermia. It is further concluded that, because of the depression in respiratory minute volume accompanying profound hypothermia, the heating pads and plumbed garment in combination with inhalation therapy should not be used. This leaves inhalation therapy alone as the recommended treatment for profound hypothermia in the field.

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