A patient with polytrauma, hypothermia and cardiac arrest after delayed mountain rescue

Affiliations

¹ Emergency physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Bern University Hospital and Institute of Mountain Emergency Medicine, EURAC rescue, Bozen, Italy.
² Anesthesiologist, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Hochtaunus-Kliniken gGmbH, Bad Homburg, Germany; German Red Cross Mountain Rescue, Berlin, Germany.
³ Anesthesiologist, Department of Anesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care, Hospital Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany; Mountain Rescue Bavaria, Bad Tolz, Germany.
⁴ Anesthesiologist, Emergency Medical Service, Zermatt, Switzerland, and International Commission for Mountain Emergency Medicine (ICAR MEDCOM).
⁵ Anesthesiologist, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Cantonal Hospital, St. Gallen, Switzerland; Air Zermatt, Zermatt, Switzerland.
⁶ Emergency physician, Emergency Service, Lausanne University Hospital Center, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland; International Commission for Mountain Emergency Medicine.

Comment

Monika Brodmann Maeder et al. CMAJ. 2018.

. 2018 Oct 22;190(42):E1263.

doi: 10.1503/cmaj.70338.

¹ Emergency physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Bern University Hospital and Institute of Mountain Emergency Medicine, EURAC rescue, Bozen, Italy.
² Anesthesiologist, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Hochtaunus-Kliniken gGmbH, Bad Homburg, Germany; German Red Cross Mountain Rescue, Berlin, Germany.
³ Anesthesiologist, Department of Anesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care, Hospital Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany; Mountain Rescue Bavaria, Bad Tolz, Germany.
⁴ Anesthesiologist, Emergency Medical Service, Zermatt, Switzerland, and International Commission for Mountain Emergency Medicine (ICAR MEDCOM).
⁵ Anesthesiologist, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Cantonal Hospital, St. Gallen, Switzerland; Air Zermatt, Zermatt, Switzerland.
⁶ Emergency physician, Emergency Service, Lausanne University Hospital Center, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland; International Commission for Mountain Emergency Medicine.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

Use of extracorporeal life support for active rewarming in a hypothermic, nonarrested patient with multiple trauma.
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