Description

The Wilderness Medical Society (WMS) reported a simple staging system for accidental hypothermia.


Patient selection: accidental hypothermia

 

Clinical Findings

Core Temperature

Category

normal mental status; shivering; unable to care for self or to function normally

32-35°C

mild

conscious with abnormal mental status; variable shivering'

28 to 31.9°C

moderate

unconscious

< 28 °C

severe

 


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