[Hypothermia in patients with burn injuries: influence of prehospital treatment].
Hypothermia following pre-hospital treatment of burn patients is a common risk with increasing lethality. Soon after admission to our burn unit, the body temperature of 212 adult patients with more than 5% total body surface area burned was documented. We found no influence of the time of pre-hospital care and cold-water treatment alone on the body temperature. If the patients were not anesthetized, the initial temperature was normal. Only the anesthetized and artificial ventilated patients were hypothermic. We conclude that hypothermia is not a problem of the non-anesthetized and cold-water-treated patient. However, all anesthetized patients must be carefully treated to avoid hypothermia as an important complication in the pre-hospital management.
Abteilung für Anaesthesie, Intensiv- und Rettungsmedizin, Berufsgenossenschaftliches Unfallkrankenhaus Hamburg.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000758:Anesthesia; D001831:Body Temperature; D002056:Burns / Q000150:complications* / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D003422:Critical Care; D017679:Cryotherapy; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007035:Hypothermia / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014867:Water
D014867:Water