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  • Wilderness Medicine
    • Bites, stings and rashes in the wilderness
    • Heat-related illness
    • Cold-related illness
      • Accidental hypothermia
        • Introduction to hypothermia
        • Pathophysiology of hypothermia
        • Prevention of hypothermia
        • Classification of severity of hypothermia
        • Key investigations in hypothermia
        • Approach to management of hypothermia
        • Rescue and initial resuscitation in hypothermia
        • Rewarming of a person with hypothermia
        • Medical care in hypothermia
        • References
      • Frostbite and other localised cold injury
    • Altitude illness
    • Electrical injury
    • Diving medicine
    • Drowning

Prevention of hypothermia

Useful advice for people on ways to avoid hypothermia is available on the Better Health Channel and the Snowsafe website. Safe working guidance to manage work sites in cold climates is available from SafeWork Australia.

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