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Hypothermia is the cause of at least 1,500 deaths a year in the United States. [2] It is more common in older people and males. [5] One of the lowest documented body temperatures from which someone with accidental hypothermia has survived is 12.7 °C (54.9 °F) in a 2-year-old boy from Poland named Adam. [6]
Targeted temperature management (TTM), previously known as therapeutic hypothermia or protective hypothermia, is an active treatment that tries to achieve and maintain a specific body temperature in a person for a specific duration of time in an effort to improve health outcomes during recovery after a period of stopped blood flow to the brain. [1]
For people with pre-existing cardiovascular disease, the additional workload can result in myocardial infarction and/or acute heart failure, which ultimately may lead to a cardiac arrest. A vagal response to an extreme stimulus as this one, may, in very rare cases, render per se a cardiac arrest. Hypothermia and extreme stress can both ...
Even on an 84 degree summer day, you can still get hypothermia on New England's beaches. The Atlantic Ocean is just that cold. Heather Cassani is warning about the dangers of hypothermia after her ...
Older adults are prone to dehydration for many reasons. Learn how to identify the symptoms of dehydration in older adults based on how they look and feel.
Each year, RSV infections cause about 177,000 hospitalizations and 14,000 deaths in adults aged 65 and older, per CDC data. It also leads to about 58,000 hospitalizations and 500 deaths in ...
A 2022 study on the effect of heat on young people found that the critical wet-bulb temperature at which heat stress can no longer be compensated, T wb,crit, in young, healthy adults performing tasks at modest metabolic rates mimicking basic activities of daily life was much lower than the 35 °C (95 °F) usually assumed, at about 30.55 °C (86 ...
Evidence of frostbite occurring in people dates back 5,000 years. [1] Evidence was documented in a pre-Columbian mummy discovered in the Andes. [7] The number of cases of frostbite is unknown. [5] Rates may be as high as 40% a year among those who mountaineer. [1] The most common age group affected is those 30 to 50 years old. [4]