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Preventing post-injury hypothermia during prolonged prehospital evacuation.
Prehosp Disaster Med
October 2002
Tromsoe Mine Victim Resource Center (TMC), PO Box 80, N-9038 University Hospital of Northern Norway.
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.