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1 Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines for the Out-of-Hospital Evaluation and Treatment of Accidental Hypothermia  Ken Zafren, MD, Gordon G. Giesbrecht, PhD, Daniel F. Danzl, MD, Hermann Brugger, MD, Emily B. Sagalyn, MD, MPH, Beat Walpoth, MD, Eric A. Weiss, MD, Paul S. Auerbach, MD, Scott E. McIntosh, MD, MPH, Mária Némethy, MD, Marion McDevitt, DO, MPH, Jennifer Dow, MD, Robert B. Schoene, MD, George W. Rodway, PhD, APRN, Peter H. Hackett, MD, Brad L. Bennett, PhD, Colin K. Grissom, MD  Wilderness & Environmental Medicine  Volume 25, Issue 4, Pages (December 2014) DOI: /j.wem Copyright © 2014 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions

2 Figure 1 Questions considered by the authors.
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3 Figure 2 Recommendations for out-of-hospital evaluation and treatment of accidental hypothermia. ECG indicates electrocardiogram; CPR, cardiopulmonary resuscitation; HPMK, Hypothermia Prevention Management Kit; IV, intravenous; IO, intraosseous; ETCO2, end-tidal carbon dioxide; VT, ventricular tachycardia; VF, ventricular fibrillation; AED, automatic external defibrillator; US, ultrasound; ICU, intensive care unit; ECC, extracorporeal circulation. Wilderness & Environmental Medicine  , DOI: ( /j.wem ) Copyright © 2014 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions


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