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Severe hypothermia

Authoring team

Severe hypothermia is treated with:

  • warm humidified oxygen - 42 to 46øC
  • warm i.v. fluids - 43øC
  • peritoneal lavage with warmed fluids - 43øC
  • arrest - open chest massage with mediastinal irrigation or femoral-femoral bypass

The prognosis is more guarded.

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