Apparent Cooling Rate of 7 degrees C per Hour in an Avalanche Victim

作者：Stroehle Mathias; Putzer Gabriel; Procter Emily; Paal Peter

来源：High Altitude Medicine & Biology, 2015, 16(4): 356-357.

DOI：10.1089/ham.2015.0007

• afterdrop
• altitude
• avalanche
• hypothermia
• accidental
• immersion
• rewarming

Strohle, Mathias, Gabriel Putzer, Emily Procter, and Peter Paal. Apparent cooling rate of 7 degrees C per hour in an avalanche victim. High Alt Biol Med 16:356-357, 2015.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 approximate to 7 degrees C in approximate to 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.

• 出版日期2015-12-1