PubMed · 2245101
[Frostbite: findings May 1990].
Abstract
Frostbites are a frequent pathology in mountain sports; we treat 80 cases per years in Chamonix. Usually due to a bad equipment, they are favoured by humidity, wind, the high altitude polycythemia and dehydration. Physiopathology associates a physic phenomenon (freezing) with a vasomotor response. Diagnosis is obvious; the forecast rests on the bone scintigraphy and treatment combines fast warm up, vasodilators, hemodilution and late surgery. Only 8% of our patients have amputations. The best treatment is prevention.
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B Marsigny, J Foray. 1990. [Frostbite: findings May 1990].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2245101/
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