General
The name of a medical condition that occurs when your body cannot keep itself warm enough.
What is Hypothermia?
This is what your muscles do to try to keep warm
What is shivering?
True or false: remaining in cold water speeds up the process of hypothermia
What is true?
The first thing you should do to help someone who has hypothermia
What is be gentle (handle them gently/don't massage or rub them)?
What is take off their clothes because they feel warm?
Body temperature that is considered "hypothermic"
What is below 95 degrees Fahrenheit?
These are symptoms of severe hypothermia that affect your brain
What is confusion, disorientation, and/or dizziness?
This type of cold weather condition strips away the layer of heat near the surface of the skin making it harder for you body to stay warm
What is windy or wind chill?
The third thing you should do to help someone who has hypothermia
What is move them to a warm dry place?
You can you give this to a person who has hypothermia if they are conscious and alert in order to help warm them up
What is a warm beverage (nonalcoholic & non-caffeinated)?
Normal body temperature
What is 98.6 degree Fahrenheit?
The type of breathing caused by severe hypothermia
What is slow and shallow breathing?
True or False: Staying in wet clothing can speed up the process of hypothermia?
What is True?
The second thing you should do to help someone who has hypothermia
What is cut away or remove any wet clothing?
These groups of people are most susceptible to hypothermia
What is the elderly, children, and homeless people?
When you have hypothermia your body pulls your blood here in order to try to survive
What is your vital organs and brain?
A symptom that affects your heart during severe hypothermia
Low blood pressure, low heart rate, and abnormal heart rhythm
Heat lost from unprotected surfaces of your body (i.e. not covering your body with appropriate clothing)
What is radiated heat?
Another step you should take to help someone who has hypothermia
What is cover them with blankets and make sure their body is not touching any cold surfaces?
Other answers acceptable....calories
True or false: You cannot get hypothermia from living in a house that is too cold
What is false?
True or false: Alcohol helps warm your body and can help prevent hypothermia
What is false?
This is what happens when tissues in your body are injured or die because of the extreme cold
What is frostbite?
Heat lost from direct contact of your body with cold material or surfaces such as the ground, snow, or water
What is conduction?
At the hospital, nurses and doctors can administer this treatment to patients to help warm them up
What is warm, intravenous fluids?
The lowest survived body temperature ever recorded (woman from video who was trapped in a lake for 80 minutes)
What is 56 degrees Fahrenheit?