The severely hypothermic patient must be handled and moved extremely carefully as the hypothermic myocardium is predisposed to ventricular fibrillation (VF) on patient handling.
The management of hypothermia requires:
Selecting the right treatment
The appropriate intervention depends on:
As severity of hypothermia increases, treatment needs to become more aggressive.
Other considerations
Other medical factors that should be considered and treated concurrently include:
Next steps
The following measures should be taken:
Rewarming
The general treatment of any coagulopathies is by rewarming, not by administration of clotting factors.
Rewarming strategies can be active or passive, and invasive or non-invasive.