Next week the faculty of Mountain and Marine Medicine will accompany students of the Wilderness International and Improvisational Medicine Course to the Sandia Ski area. There, we lecture on hypothermia and frostbite, among other topics. At right is photo of a volunteer who was (temporarily) underdressed for the elements. Faculty and students have "chilled" outside for a few minutes. Students then practice rapidly rewarming these "victims" in a hypothermia wrap and plentiful hot chocolate.Students who will be joining us should look at this gear list:
Outdoor snow gear - ski wear - sunglasses/screen -swimsuit for some!
Daypack
Ski area: Alpine/Telemark or Snowboards
Backcountry: X-country skis or Snowshoes
Bring or buy lunch/drinks
You may rent cross-country skis/snowshoes at REI - (505) 247-1191
Other gear at Sportz Outdoor (505) 837-9400
Ski Systems (505) 296-9111
UNM outdoor shop 277-8182
Joe Alcock MD
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1 comment:
I was doing some research on hypothermia and ran across your blog.
We sell the Thermal Angel Blood and IV Fluid Warmer that runs on a battery, and we've been hearing quite a bit from search and rescue teams.
Here are a couple of resources that might be useful to your readers regarding hypothermia.
http://www.thermalangel.com/html/degrees-of-hypothermia.html
http://www.thermalangel.com/html/effects-of-hypothermia.html
I enjoyed reading your blog. Keep up the good work. :-)
Sincerely,
Jay Lopez
Chief Operating Officer
Estill Medical Technologies, Inc.
www.thermalangel.com
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