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Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, 7e
| Section 16. Environmental Injuries > |
Chapter 202. Frostbite and Other Localized Cold Injuries
Sections: Frostbite and Other Localized Cold Injuries: Introduction, Nonfreezing Cold Injuries, Freezing Injuries, Disposition and Follow-Up, Injury Prevention, Global Perspectives, References.
Topics Discussed: cold injury, localized; frostbite.
Excerpt:"Cold-related injuries have been described since antiquity in
the medical and historical literature.1 Their occurrence depends on the degree of cold exposure, as
well as environmental and individual factors. Cold-related injuries
develop either directly, by tissue cooling, or secondarily, through
cold-associated injuries causing straings, sprains, or other trauma
and predisposing a person to frostbite and other local cold injuries.
Injuries sustained in a cold environment may predispose a person
to nonfreezing cold injuries, frostbite, or hypothermia (Figure 202-0.1). Hypothermia is discussed in Chapter 203, Hypothermia...."
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