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Hypothermia and drowning

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Still, after a quick Google search, you realise that hypothermia potently affects potassium shift from the extracellular to the intracellular and extravascular spaces. Still, after a quick Google search, you realise that hypothermia potently affects potassium shift from the extracellular to the intracellular and extravascular spaces.

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emDOCs Podcast – Episode 102: Hypocalcemia in Trauma and the Diamond of Death

EMDocs

Previous triad of death = hypothermia, acidosis, and coagulopathy. HypoCa is common in trauma patients and is associated with poor outcomes. Liver dysfunction, secondary cirrhosis, critical illness, trauma, and hypothermia reduce citrate metabolism. Hypothermia also leads to hypoCa. Whole blood does contain less citrate.

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What Are the Complications of Sickle Cell Trait?

Pediatric Education

Other states which could also affect sickling would be dehydration, acidosis, hypoxia and hyperthermia. High-quality studies in the SCT population are needed to clarify the health-outcomes as many studies are necessarily smaller or not able to be performed as rigorously. Clinical Outcomes Associated With Sickle Cell Trait.

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EM@3AM: Hyperthermia

EMDocs

football players, military). Broad-spectrum antibiotics (A) for septic shock are not inappropriate given the hyperthermia, tachycardia, and hypotension. As you attempt to examine the patient, he has a generalized, tonic-clonic seizure. What is your diagnosis, and what are your next steps in evaluation and management?