Sentences with phrase «severely hypothermic»

A new study has shown that in the specific case of severely hypothermic victims with a core body temperature below 28 °C, resuscitation can be delayed and periodically interrupted for short intervals during transportation in the mountains without jeopardising survival.

In recent years, however, there have been some case reports in the Alps of severely hypothermic accident victims in cardiac arrest who have survived without any permanent damage despite several interruptions of chest compressions.

In practice, this means that if severely hypothermic cardiac arrest patients with body temperature below 28 °C need to be evacuated from difficult terrain and continuous resuscitation is not possible, it is justified to alternate five minutes of CPR with five minutes of transportation and continue this pattern until continuous resuscitation can be started.

The authors did a literature review that has led to the conclusion that short interruptions of CPR for the purposes of transportation can be made during resuscitation with severely hypothermic patients.