Question 114 · LDEK · Trauma
Optimum heating in posttraumatic hypothermia is:
- A. 0,1 to 0,2°C per hour.
- B. 0,3 to 0,4°C per hour.
- C. 1 to 2°C per hour.
- D. 3 to 4°C per hour.
- E. 5 to 6°C per hour.
Hint
Rewarming should be effective yet gradual enough to avoid vasodilatory and arrhythmic complications.
The answer, the explanation and a note on every option are available once you log in. The account is free: topic tests, a mock exam, mistake review and statistics.
More questions on Emergency medicine
- Select the correct emergency management of hyperkalaemia in patients with serum [K⁺] levels ≥6.5 mmol/L:
- Reversible causes of cardiac arrest (so-called 4H’s and 4T’s) do not include:
- A 53-year-old woman with a core body temperature of 31°C had a cardiopulmonary arrest. The correct management involves cardiopulmonary resuscitation…
- Which of the following is not recommended in a 73-year-old woman with a heatstroke?
- Select the false statement regarding a 70-year-old man with hemodynamic instability and tension pneumothorax:
- The reversible causes of cardiac and respiratory arrest include: