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warm cold colder

Posted By: tom
Date: Friday, 7 January 2000, at 10:13 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Fire and Ice (Ian Johnston)

This is one of the reasons you don't reheat a hypothermia victim with a high heat source. The
> restricted vessels will open up and the blood will flow but the surface of
> the body is colder than the blood so his core is cooled even more.

> I guess we need a doctors opinion on this one!

Ian About heat and hypo. Not a doc but I do have a bit of a background in this area. It generally is not considered to dangerous to reheat someone if they are still shivering. This is of course not absolute-you would not know if they are just about to stop shivering and are just on the edge of sever hypo. The other problem is you might not know what if any other medical problems they might have. If they have left the shivering stage behind reheating becomes something best done in hospital. The idea is if they are no longer shivering your job is to stop them from any further heat loss while help is summoned. However, if you are in a wilderness situation I suppose one would have little choice but to try and rewarm. A quick little note is that you should never move quickly or be rough in any way with a true hypo patient in that the heart is very unstable. tom

Messages In This Thread

Pomonkey Creek
Robert Woodard -- Monday, 13 December 1999, at 5:04 p.m.

Re: Pomonkey Creek
lee -- Monday, 13 December 1999, at 8:04 p.m.

Re: Pomonkey Creek
Robert Woodard -- Tuesday, 14 December 1999, at 3:53 p.m.

Re: no kidding
lee -- Tuesday, 14 December 1999, at 7:09 p.m.

Fire and Ice
Robert Woodard -- Tuesday, 14 December 1999, at 8:08 p.m.

Re: Fire and Ice
Ian Johnston -- Wednesday, 15 December 1999, at 3:45 a.m.

Re: Fire and Ice
Pete W P -- Friday, 17 December 1999, at 11:05 a.m.

Re: Hot/Cold - Wet/Dry
Ian Johnston -- Saturday, 18 December 1999, at 4:12 a.m.

Re: different responses to stress
lee -- Saturday, 18 December 1999, at 11:04 a.m.

Re: Hot/Cold - Wet/Dry
Pete W P -- Sunday, 19 December 1999, at 9:42 a.m.

warm cold colder
tom -- Friday, 7 January 2000, at 10:13 p.m.

Re: warm cold colder
Robert Woodard -- Saturday, 8 January 2000, at 7:48 p.m.

Re: so how was the water today?
lee -- Saturday, 8 January 2000, at 7:55 p.m.

Re: so how was the water today?
Robert Woodard -- Saturday, 8 January 2000, at 10:32 p.m.

Re: warm cold colder
Ian Johnston -- Sunday, 9 January 2000, at 7:56 p.m.

Re: Cold Hands and Caffeine
Mike Hanks -- Sunday, 19 December 1999, at 1:09 a.m.

Re: Cold Hands and Caffeine
Wes Boyd -- Sunday, 19 December 1999, at 5:32 p.m.

Re: Cold Hands and Caffeine
lee -- Sunday, 19 December 1999, at 5:53 p.m.

Re: Cold Hands and Caffeine
Ian Johnston -- Sunday, 19 December 1999, at 8:15 p.m.

Re: Pomonkey Creek
Pete W P -- Friday, 17 December 1999, at 10:30 a.m.

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