Indoor accidental hypothermia in the elderly: an emerging lethal entity in the 21st century

Emerg Med J. 2018 Nov;35(11):667-668. doi: 10.1136/emermed-2018-207804. Epub 2018 Aug 29.

Authors

Peter Paal¹, Simon Rauch^{2

3

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Hospitallers Brothers Hospital Teaching Hospital of the Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.
² Institute of Mountain Emergency Medicine, EURAC research, Bolzano, Italy.
³ Department of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital LMU, Munich, Germany.
⁴ Department of Sports Science, Medical Section, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.

PMID: 30158146
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2018-207804

No abstract available

Keywords: cardiac arrest; emergency care systems; environmental medicine, hypothermia; resuscitation.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Housing / standards*
Housing / trends
Humans
Hypothermia / complications
Hypothermia / etiology*
Middle Aged