The prehospital management of hypothermia-An up-to-date overview
Injury Nov 15, 2017
Haverkamp FJC, et al. - In this article, researchers sought to provide an up-to-date systematic overview of the currently available treatment modalities and their effectiveness for prehospital hypothermia management. Despite acceptance of prehospital warming as safe and advantageous, especially for a non-shivering hypothermic patient, findings revealed that no insulation/heating combinations stood significantly above all the others. However, modern designs of hypothermia wraps have shown promise and battery-powered inline fluid warmers are practical devices to warm intravenous fluids prior to infusion.
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