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Empower Yourself with Mountain and Expedition Emergency Medicine

Clinical Corner will help you keep up to date

Each month we look for new papers that shed light on mountain medicine problems

and then share them with you.

We might do this as a short blog or part of a case review.

Heat blankets in hypothermia wraps

Chemical Heat Blankets

Read the article we have recently published in Environment and Wilderness Medical Journal on this topic. 

Research Paper

The Performance of Chemical Heat Blankets (pdf)

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Hypothermia walking cold patients off the mountain

At Mountain and Expedition Emergency Medicine - Learning Never Ends

We have recently been involved in a research study ti investigate the safety of walking mildly hypothermic patients from the mountains. 


Listen to the WMS Blog on this topic:


https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/35-walking-cold-patients/id1086264061?i=1000670528531



For more information the full paper reference is:   The Outcome of Walking Cold Patients with Potential Mild Hypothermia to Safety-A Mountain Rescue Case Series. Wilderness Environ Med. 2024 Sep;35(3):295-300. doi: 10.1177/10806032241259943.

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