A look at the problem of death from hypothermia (on the example of cases of hypothermia-related resuscitations)
https://doi.org/10.25789/YMJ.2018.62.21
Abstract
In the Far North, one of the main environmental risk factors is the cold, which lasts for 8 months. The problem of the effect of cold on the human body has always been and remains relevant. Annually, about 3,000 people around the world are frozen to death, of which about 200 cases take place in Yakutia.
The article describes a unique case of resuscitation of a frozen patient, which gives grounds to revise algorhythm of actions in relation to frozen patients, both from medical and legal points of view
About the Author
A. G. Egorova
Yakut Science Centre of Complex Medical Problems
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Egorova Aitalina Grigor’evna – PhD
677010, 4 Sergelyakhskoe Shosse Yakutsk
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Egorova A.G. A look at the problem of death from hypothermia (on the example of cases of hypothermia-related resuscitations). Yakut Medical Journal. 2018;(2):73-75. https://doi.org/10.25789/YMJ.2018.62.21
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