The Initial Responses to Cold-water Immersion in Man

Overview

Journal Clin Sci (Lond)

Specialties Biochemistry
General Medicine
Science

Date 1989 Dec 1

PMID 2691172

Citations 46

Authors

M J Tipton

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Abstract

This review is summarized in Fig. 1. It is concluded that the cold-shock response can result in the death or serious incapacitation of an individual long before general hypothermia develops. As such, this response is probably responsible for the majority of annual open-water immersion deaths.

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