Cold injury remains one of the most complex and actual problems of emergency medicine. Frosting injuries are also observed in the regions with warm climate particularly in Uzbekistan able - bodies men suffer most often, 85-90% of them are admitted in the condition of alcohol intoxication. A retrospective review was performed of patients admitted to the Burn Department of the Centre of Emergency Medical Care with frostbite injury 92 individuals of 19 to 63 years of age. The data on each patient were collected including age, sex, period of injury, injuries of extremities, bacteriological investigations, along with general warming of victims, all patients were given intravenous injection of infusion spasm and to improve microcircula determination of the injury area and different general and local treatment. Treatment of these patients is very prolonged, expensive, frequently requiring crippling operations, resulting in disability.
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