Dr Paddy Morgan talks to us about accidental hypothermia, what is it? How can we recognise it and how can we treat it in the prehospital environment.
Top 3 Points from this podcast:ICAR Guidelines
Original hypothermia
Accidental Hypothermia – an update
Accidental hypothermia Part 1- an update
Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Out-of-Hospital Evaluation and Treatment of Accidental Hypothermia: 2019 update
Comparison of three different prehospital wrapping methods for preventing hypothermia – a crossover study in humans
Effect of Hypoglycaemia on Thermoregulatory Responses
Severe Hypoglycaemia Reduces the Shivering Threshold
Termination of resuscitation
Paddy is a Consultant Anaesthetist and Trauma Team Leader based in Bristol (UK), and Consultant with Emergency Medical Retrieval and Transfer Service (EMRTS) Cymru, and Great Western Air Ambulance.
Prior to his medical studies, Paddy worked summer seasons as a surf lifeguard and went onto to instruct and mentor at a national level, retaining an active role in flood/swift water rescue. He is the honorary medical advisor to Surf Lifesaving GB, member of the UK governments Search and Rescue (UKSAR) Advisory Medical Group, previously sat on the Royal National Lifeboat Institute’s Medical & Survival Committee, is a member of the International Life Saving Federation’s (ILS) medical advisory committee, an Invited Honorary Member of the International Drowning Research Alliance (IDRA), and is Medical Director for HM Coastguard.
As a postgraduate student and independent medical officer for the Extreme Environment Laboratory at the University of Portsmouth, his areas of research interest include drowning, the cardio-respiratory responses to immersion and submersion in cold-water, hypothermia and the response of the human body in extreme environments. He has lectured internationally and has several publications related to these subjects.
Johnny Will - Urgent Care
Bernd Wallner & Hermann Brugger - CPR with restricted patient access.
Peter Lorrain-Smith – Police Scotland
Pam Barker and Duncan McDonald - Role of the Scottish Ambulance Service Special Operations Response Team (SORT)
John Aitchison - Scottish Fire and Rescue Service - Who are they and what do they do?
Damon Powell – Roles, Responsibilities and Capabilities of MRT
Stuart Braithwaite – RNLI
Paddy Morgan – Drowning and cold water immersion
James Stevenson - Major Incidents
Caitlin Wilson - Prehospital Feedback
Mark Worrall - Seizures in the Paediatric Patient
Mark Worrall - Paediatric Respiratory Emergencies part 2
Mark Worrall - Paediatric Respiratory Emergencies part 1
Mark Worrall - Anaphylaxis in the paediatric child
Caitlin Wilson - Hyperventilation Syndrome
Gail Topping - Are you OK?
Dave Strachan - Suspension Trauma
April Lochhead - Falls in the community
Winston de Mello - Prehospital management of burns
Lucy Powls - Obstetric Emergencies in the Pre-hospital Environment
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