TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Apparent cooling rate of 7°C per hour in an avalanche victim
JO  - High altitude medicine and biology
A1  - Ströhle, Mathias
A1  - Putzer, Gabriel
A1  - Procter, Emily
A1  - Paal, Peter
SP  - 356
EP  - 357
VL  - 16
IS  - 4
N2  - 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.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1527-0297
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/ham.2015.0007
ID  - ref1
ER  -