ALLMedicine™ Frostbite Center

Jan 19th, 2022 - Postsurgical and acute orthopedic patients are frequently treated with consecutive systematic cryotherapy despite the void of data to support treatment safety or effectiveness. The purpose of this study was to examine the occurrence of frostbite a...

Jan 4th, 2022 - Rapid rewarming for frostbite injuries, a logistic overlooked gap between theory and practice.|2022|Musi M,Dollbaum R,Mena N,Mcintosh SE,|

Dec 30th, 2021 - From July 2020 through June 2021, a total of 539 members of the active (n=469) and reserve (n=70) components had at least 1 medical encounter with a pri­mary diagnosis of cold injury. The crude overall incidence rate of cold injury for all active ...

Dec 27th, 2021 - The current standard of care for acute frostbite rewarming is the use of a circulating warm water bath at a temperature of 37 °C to 39 °C. There is no standardized method to achieve this. Manual management of a warm water bath can be inefficient a...

Dec 1st, 2021 - Service members of the US Military are at risk for cutaneous cold weather injuries due to the demands of military training, combat operations, and peacekeeping missions. In this article, we review common cutaneous cold weather injuries likely to b...

Jul 22nd, 2019 - The Wilderness Medical Society convened an expert panel to develop a set of evidence-based guidelines for prevention and treatment of frostbite. We present a review of pertinent pathophysiology. We then discuss primary and secondary prevention mea...

May 1st, 2019 - Who can participate? Adults who have OA and need a total knee replacement. What does the study involve? Participants are randomly allocated to one of three groups. For the interventions field, could you please provide a brief methodology for each ...

Oct 3rd, 2012 - Lidocaine finger blocks have been shown to provide analgesia for nearly 5 hours without epinephrine and approximately 10 hours with epinephrine - essentially doubling its duration.1,2 The analgesic effect of epinephrine on the duration of bupivaca...

Dec 14th, 2020 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. As health care administrators and federal officials coordinate COVID-19 vaccine distribution this weekend, they're paying attention to one of the ...

Aug 26th, 2019 - To the Editor: A 60-year-old man with a history of basal cell carcinoma, rosacea, and seborrheic dermatitis presented for a routine skin examination. The patient mentioned incidentally that both of his ears were “rock hard” and had been so for the.

Aug 26th, 2019 - To the Editor: A 60-year-old man with a history of basal cell carcinoma, rosacea, and seborrheic dermatitis presented for a routine skin examination. The patient mentioned incidentally that both of his ears were “rock hard” and had been so for the.

Jul 31st, 2019 - Guidelines on the prevention and treatment of frostbite were released in July 2019 by the Wilderness Medical Society.[1] Prevention Preventive measures include maintaining peripheral perfusion, exercise, and protection from cold. The following mea...

Jan 5th, 2018 - Weather reporters and storm forecasters have been sounding the alarm on below-freezing temperatures, with constant reports of deaths and damage wrought by the cold snap currently afflicting much of the country. But questions remain as to whether t...