Hypothermia and hot shower.

[OH-JJ]

You can't possibly be a real physician... I am shocked to hear that you wouldn't know better than to plunge a person with a sub-normal temperature into hot water and would come to scuba board to verify your medical facts. You're a physician, for crying out loud, so ask one of your nurses... since they generally understand medicine on a practical level.

Maybe you should pick up some of your old textbooks and refresh before someone ends up permanently incommunicado?

I doubt that you know as much as you think you know.

The OP's patients are much more different than you think... But they do tend to be Cat'ish and Dog tired. the OP tends to require alot of CATscans and LABwork.
But in the end the OP does not give a horse's backside about your opinion. So stop being a jackass, or the OP may work on you.

 

[Wildcard]

I doubt that you know as much as you think you know. so stop being a jackass

The OP's patients are much more different than you think... But they do tend to be Cat'ish and Dog tired. the OP tends to require alot of CATscans and LABwork.
But in the end the OP does not give a horse's backside about your opinion.

ROTFLMFAO!

 

[LIVES4SHARKS]

OH-JJ you are a riot! Yeah..got to watch those CATS in the scanner...they tend to be finicky! MEOW!

Also, lets be nice y'all! I am just happy she is doing better, live and learn!

Carolyn :sharks:

 

[fisherdvm]

You can't possibly be a real physician... I am shocked to hear that you wouldn't know better than to plunge a person with a sub-normal temperature into hot water and would come to scuba board to verify your medical facts. You're a physician, for crying out loud, so ask one of your nurses... since they generally understand medicine on a practical level.

Maybe you should pick up some of your old textbooks and refresh before someone ends up permanently incommunicado?

Never claimed to be a real physician, I am a zit popper, remember?? Haven't listened to a heart for over 10 years !!!

That would really explain why my patients were dropping like flies in the heat of summer, eh??

The divemasters and old geezers here are soooo smart, I figure to pick on their brain for a while.

Now ask me what to do with a zit on your butt, I'll tell you in minute detail!!

You guys are just toooooo sarcastic, we all need to dive soon.

 

[fisherdvm]

Now, about the core warming.

Should you do this with a warm water enema, or should you put the patient in the microwave??

 

[LIVES4SHARKS]

Now, about the core warming.

Should you do this with a warm water enema, or should you put the patient in the microwave??

I VOTE FOR ENEMAS! I don't have a mircrowave that big. Plus it will help clean out all the crap! LOL!

*SMOOCHES*

Carolyn :sharks:

 

[TSandM]

Honestly, for rapid core rewarming, we use warm IV fluids, warmed ventilator air, warm bladder flushes through a catheter, peritoneal lavage with warm saline, and in the last extremity, extracorporeal circulation with warming.

Rapid external rewarming permits further core temperature drop, because it reverses the protective vasoconstriction, allowing blood to come out to the still relatively cool extremities.

In the case of someone who was merely chilled from a pool, and probably not significantly hypothermic, I would think the lightheadedness from a shower was more a reversal of vasoconstriction combined with mild volume depletion, in a person with a normal/low resting BP. I doubt there was enough total heat loss here to induce shock.

 

[fisherdvm]

Honestly, for rapid core rewarming, we use warm IV fluids, warmed ventilator air, warm bladder flushes through a catheter, peritoneal lavage with warm saline, and in the last extremity, extracorporeal circulation with warming.

Rapid external rewarming permits further core temperature drop, because it reverses the protective vasoconstriction, allowing blood to come out to the still relatively cool extremities.

In the case of someone who was merely chilled from a pool, and probably not significantly hypothermic, I would think the lightheadedness from a shower was more a reversal of vasoconstriction combined with mild volume depletion, in a person with a normal/low resting BP. I doubt there was enough total heat loss here to induce shock.

Is it me, or all SB staff's comments are soooooo boringggggg ....zzzzzz

 

[LIVES4SHARKS]

Is it me, or all SB staff's comments are soooooo boringggggg ....zzzzzz

May I suggest the following read:

"How to Win Friends and Influence People"

*hugs*
Carolyn :sharks:

 

[do it easy]

Is it me, or all SB staff's comments are soooooo boringggggg ....zzzzzz

To translate- for severe hypothermia, flush warm stuff through all your orifices and rinse with hot water inside and out. You gotta be pretty weak to get whooped by a hot shower. (just translating )

I always thought DVM was for veterinarians.