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Medical Aspects of Mountain Rescue by Helicopter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Georg Hossli  and
Christian Bühler
Georg Hossli
Affiliation:
Institute of Anesthesiology, Zurich University, Canton Spital and the Swiss Air Rescue, Zurich, Switzerland.
Christian Bühler
Affiliation:
Institute of Anesthesiology, Zurich University, Canton Spital and the Swiss Air Rescue, Zurich, Switzerland.
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In summer, mountain accidents may include falls, causing contusions and open wounds; fractures and torn ligaments; external bleeding;internal bleeding in the head, thorax and abdomen; injuries to the spinal column and extremities; falling rocks causing skull injuries; and falls into crevasses causing additional hypothermia, frostbite and drowning. In winter, there are skiing accidents with fractures and torn ligaments; and avalanches resulting in asphyxia, hypothermia and frostbite. In addition, there are mountain sickness; pulmonary edema of high altitude; snow blindness; heatstroke; sunstroke; heart attack; diarrhea and vomiting; pneumonia; snakebite; drowning in torrents or lakes; and burns, explosions and cuts acquired in huts. First aid, medical support and transport to hospital may vary widely.

Type
Section Four—Air Rescue
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 1 , Issue 1: Military and Disaster Medicine , Spring 1985 , pp. 70 - 71
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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