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Heat & Thermal Injuries

Cold Injuries

  1. Avellanasa ML, Ricart A, Botella J, et al. Management of severe accidental hypothermia. Med Intensiva 2012;36:200–212.

  2. Brown DJA, Brugger H, Boyd J, Paal P. Accidental hypothermia. New England Journal of Medicine 2012; 367: 193-8.

  3. Castellani JW, Young AJ, Ducharme MB, et al. American College of Sports Medicine position stand: prevention of cold injuries during exercise. [Review]. Med Sci Sports Exer 2006;38(11):2012–2029.

  4. Dunne B, Christou E, Duff O, et al. Extracorporeal-assisted rewarming in the management of accidental deep hypothermic cardiac arrest: a systematic review of the literature. Heart, Lung and Circul 2014;23(11): 1029–1035.

  5. Guly H. History of accidental hypothermia. Resuscitation 2011;82:122–125.

  6. Hildebrand F, Giannoudis PV, van Griensven M, et al. Pathophysiologic changes and effects of hypothermia on outcome in elective surgery and trauma patients. Am J Surg 2004;187(3):363–371.

  7. Konstantinidis A, Inaba K, Dubose J, et al. The impact of nontherapeutic hypothermia on outcomes after severe traumatic brain injury. J Trauma 2011;71(6):1627–1631.

  8. Larach MG. Accidental hypothermia. Lancet 1995;345(8948):493–498.

  9. Mallett ML. Accidental hypothermia. QJM 2002;95(12):775–785.

  10. Perlman R, Callum J, Laflammel C, Tien H, Nascimento B, Beckett A, & Alam A. A recommended early goal-directed management guideline for the prevention of hypothermia- related transfusion, morbidity, and mortality in severely injured trauma patients. Critical Care 2016;20:107.

  11. Petrone P, Asensio JA, Marini CP. Management of accidental hypothermia and cold injury. Current Prob Surg 2014;51:417–431.


Heat Injuries  

  1. Glazer JL. Management of heatstroke and heat exhaustion. Am Fam Physician 2005;71 (11):2133–2140.

  2. Yeo TP. Heat stroke: a comprehensive review. AACN Clin Issues 2004;15(2):280–293. 


Heat Stroke


  1. Casa DJ, Armstrong LE, Kenny GP, et al. Exertional heat stroke: new concepts regarding cause and care. Curr Sports Med Reports 2012;11:115–123.

  2. Hadad E, Rav-Acha M, Heled Y, et al. A review of cooling methods. Sports Med 2004;34(8):501–511. 3. Lipman GS, Eifling KP, Ellis MA, et al. Wilderness Medical Society practice guidelines for the prevention and treatment of heat-related illness: 2014 update. Wilderness & Environ Med 2013;24(4):351–361.

  3. Raukar N, Lemieux R, Finn G, et al. Heat illness—a practical primer. Rhode Island Med J 2015;98(7):28–31.

  4. Sharyn Ireland, Ruth Endacott, Peter Cameron, Mark Fitzgerald, Eldho Paul. The incidence and significance of accidental hypothermia in major trauma—A prospective observational study. Resuscitation 2001;82(3):300–306.

  5. Søreide K. Clinical and translational effects of hypothermia in major trauma patients: From pathophysiology to prevention, prognosis and potential preservation. Injury, Int. J. Care Injured 2014;45:647–654.

  6. Spence R. Cold Injury. In Cameron JL,editor. Current Surgical Therapy, 7th St. Louis, MO: Mosby, 2001.

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