PMID: 9422179Mar 1, 1995Paper

Accidental hypothermia: incidence, risk factors and clinical course of patients admitted to hospital

European Journal of Emergency Medicine : Official Journal of the European Society for Emergency Medicine
Joost J L M BierensJ T Knape

Abstract

This study was initiated to identify the incidence, risk factors and outcome predictors of patients admitted to hospital in the Netherlands because of accidental hypothermia. Information about these patients was available for study through the National Health Care Data Bank. Between 1987 and 1990, 612 accidental hypothermic patients were admitted: 185 hypothermic patients also suffered from submersion (HYPSUBS), but this was not the case in the remaining 427 patients (HYPNOTSUBS). Patients in the HYPNOTSUBS group were older (average age 55.2 years versus 38.9 years; p < 0.001), remained longer in hospital (average 20.8 days versus 9.2 days; p < 0.001) and had a higher death rate than those in the HYPSUBS group (16.9% versus 5.9%; p < 0.001). In HYPNOTSUBS, increasing age correlated with increases in the length of hospital stay and death rate. This relationship was not found in HYPSUBS. Trauma was the major associated problem in both groups; these patients had the highest death rate (22.8% versus 16.7%; not significant). Death occurred within 2 days in 54% of HYPNOTSUBS non-survivors and 73% of HYPSUB non-survivors. HYPNOTSUBS admitted to university hospitals showed a lower death rate (5.9%) compared with HYPNOTSUBS admitted to ...Continue Reading

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