First aid for hypothermia

The human body is capable of very quickly overcool, especially in frosts and cold seasons. As a rule, this applies to lovers of winter fishing, bathing at Epiphany, hiking in snow-covered mountains and other similar entertainments. In such cases, an important skill is at least a minimum first aid for hypothermia. It can save the victim not only health, but life, if the events will be held in a timely and correct manner.

What can not be done during the emergency first aid in hypothermia?

To begin with, consider actions that may seem useful, but in fact are capable of harming a person with hypothermia.

You can not:

1. To give alcoholic beverages.
2. Put in a hot bathroom.
3. Force to move actively, somewhere to go.
4. Apply hot compresses.
5. Too quickly warm the victim.

Such activities will provoke a severe deterioration in the patient's condition, sometimes up to a lethal outcome.

First aid for general supercooling of the body

Urgent measures should be carried out in the following order:

1. Call a team of specialists on the phone, specifying that the victim is overcooled.
2. Put the person in a warm room.
3. Remove cold or wet clothing, change it to dry.
4. Wrap the victim in a blanket.
5. Give any sweet and warm, but not hot, drink.
6. If possible, put a person in a bathroom with warm, not hot, water, temperature up to 37 degrees.

It is important not to try to warm the patient quickly, it can provoke a violation of cardiac and respiratory activity and lead to death.

First aid for severe severe hypothermia

If a person is severely injured, is unconscious, the list of emergency services excludes the patient's placement in the bathroom and warm drinking.

In this situation, one should constantly monitor respiratory activity and check the pulse, if necessary, do indirect heart massage and standard artificial respiration .