@article{ref1,
title="Preventing post-injury hypothermia during prolonged prehospital evacuation",
journal="Prehospital and disaster medicine",
year="2002",
author="Husum, Hans and Olsen, Tone and Murad, Mudhafar and Heng, Yang Van and Wisborg, Torben and Gilbert, Mads",
volume="17",
number="1",
pages="23-26",
abstract="INTRODUCTION: Post-injury hypothermia is a risk predictor in trauma patients whose physiology is deranged. The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of simple, in-field, hypothermia prevention to victims of penetrating trauma during long prehospital evacuations. METHODS: A total of 170 consecutively injured landmine victims were included in a prospective, clinical study in Northern Iraq and Cambodia. Thirty patients were provided with systematic prehospital hypothermia prevention, and for 140 patients, no preventive measures were provided. RESULTS: The mean value for the time from injury to hospital admission was 6.6 hours (range: 0.2-72). The incidence of hypothermia (oral temperature < 36 degrees C) before prevention/rewarming was 21% (95% confidence interval: 15% to 28%). The Prevention Group had a statistically significant lower rate of hypothermia on hospital admission compared to the control group (95% confidence interval for difference: 6% to 24%). CONCLUSION: Simple, preventive, in-field measures help to prevent hypothermia during protracted evacuation, and should be part of the trauma care protocol in rural rescue systems.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1049-023X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}