Hypothermia Wounds and Injuries Conditions and Diseases
Exposure to cold temperatures can cause serious or life-threatening health problems. To stay safe, you should know what to do if a cold-weather health emergency arises.
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SARBC Hypothermia Page - Information about Hypothermia, what it is, how it affects you and its treatment. By the Search and Rescue Society of British Columbia.
- eMedicine Health - Hypothermia - Consumer health resource center providing information on the conditions and diseases wounds and injuries causes, symptoms, and treatment.
- eMedicine Health - Frostbite - Consumer health resource center providing information on the causes, symptoms, and treatment.
- BBC News: Hypothermia: The facts - News article: Exposure to the cold is estimated to cause 30,000 deaths a year in the UK.
- Cold Weather Camping with the Ol' Buffalo - Essay on camping comfortably in cold weather. Covers hypothermia recognition and treatment of hypothermia and frostbite. Written hypothermia by Alaskan who was trained in arctic survival hypothermia skills by the US Air Force and the hypothermia Alaska Army National Guard.
- Spinal Cord Injury and Hypothermia - Because of spinal cord injury, the temperature of the body has an increased tendency to fluctuate according to the temperature of the environment.
- Winter Camping & Hiking Survival - Hypothermia information compiled from various sources and authors conditions and diseases by Chuck Bramlet.
- Management of Hypothermia - Management of hypothermia in a clinical setting. Much of the hypothermia information is also useful in the field. By John Hickey.
- Hypothermia Prevention, Recognition and Treatment - Articles, protocols and research on the life-saving skills of keeping hypothermia victims alive by core rewarming techniques.
- Immersion Hypothermia and Near-drowning - Special dangers of cold water to scuba divers. conditions and diseases Outlines of diagnosis and treatment. From Diving Medicine conditions and diseases Online.
- Frostbite - Provides general information, symptoms, and treatment on frostbite. wounds and injuries wounds and injuries From Survive Outdoors Inc.
- Working Outside in Winter - How to stay safe if you have to conditions and diseases be outside for extended periods when it\\'s cold conditions and diseases and windy or wet.
- Outdoor Action Guide to Hypothermia and Cold Weather Injuries - Traveling in cold weather conditions can be life threatening. When wounds and injuries going into cold conditions it is your responsibility to learn wounds and injuries the latest information. By Princeton University.
- Staying Safe Outdoors in Winter Weather - Exposure to cold temperatures can cause serious or life-threatening health wounds and injuries problems. To stay safe, you should know what to do wounds and injuries if a cold-weather health emergency arises.
- Hypothermia Rescue - Hypothermia protocol by Charlottesvile-Albemarle (Virginia) Rescue Squad.
- Rural Family Medicine - Links to useful sites on cold-weather injuries.
- Cold Weather Camping - Details about comfort and safety including clothing, bedding, wounds and injuries conditions and diseases and references.
- Hypothermia: A Cold Weather Hazard - The danger of hypothermia to older people. How hypothermia to avoid wounds and injuries it, how to recognize the symptoms, hypothermia what to do if wounds and injuries you think someone hypothermia might have hypothermia.
- Chamonix Hospital Cold Injury Page - Research, evaluation, prevention and information in Mountain Medicine hypothermia and Traumatology. By Mountain Medicine and Traumatology Department hypothermia of Chamonix Hospital.
- Survive Outdoors: Hypothermia - Description of this condition, common symptoms, recommended treatment wounds and injuries hypothermia in the field.
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