Hypothermia: Safe and efficient methods of rewarming the patient: Postgraduate Medicine: Vol 88, No 8

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Environmental extremes place the body under enormous physiologic stress. Because human beings are essentially adapted to warm weather and ill-adapted to cold weather, hypothermia is a common occurrence. Dr Dexter reviews some of the basic pathophysiology of hypothermia and discusses predisposing factors, diagnosis, current treatment concepts, and prevention.

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