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?
VS, mental status, observing for presence of shivering…
What is the Initial Assessment?
A patient whose temperature does not rise despite aggressive rewarming, and/or Serum potassium >12.
What are indications to stop rewarming efforts?
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?
Bair hugger, warmed IV fluids, warm blankets, probe temperature of monitoring.
What are ways to gently warm a hypothermic patient while monitoring their temperature?
(T/F)-You should always pop the blister that may form with frostbite.
What is false? (Patient needs to be seen by orthopedic surgeon for possible fasciotomy)
Circulatory disease, dehydration, alcohol or drug use, inadequate insulation…..
What are predisposing conditions for frostbite?
These are symptoms that affect your lungs during 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?
Removing any wet clothing and wrap the person in blankets, towels; offer warm food or drink; do not use hot drinks, water or electric blankets.
What are ways to you treat hypothermia?
These groups of people are most susceptible to hypothermia (hint: there are three)
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?
These symptoms affect your heart during severe hypothermia (3 things)
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 loss?
Dysrhythmias, volume depletion, poor metabolism of medications, high potassium, and high glucose.
What are common problems during rewarming?
Axillary and Oral Temperatures.
What are, inaccurate ways of measuring a hypothermia patient's temperature.
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 formation of ice crystals.
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 direct contact?
At the hospital, nurses and doctors can administer this treatment to patients to help warm them up
What is warm, intravenous fluids?
Moving a hypothermia patient into a vertical position, or abrupt position changes.
What can cause ventricular fibrillation?