{"id":1858,"date":"2014-01-26T12:51:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T12:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/?p=1858"},"modified":"2019-04-16T11:46:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T11:46:33","slug":"what-is-hypothermia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/basic-meteorology\/what-is-hypothermia\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Hypothermia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3802 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/iAlert.com-warning-signs-of-hypothermia-1024x535.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/iAlert.com-warning-signs-of-hypothermia-1024x535.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/iAlert.com-warning-signs-of-hypothermia-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/iAlert.com-warning-signs-of-hypothermia.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Hypothermia <\/em><\/strong>occurs when body temperature falls below 95 degrees Fahrenheit. Visible warning signs include uncontrollable shivering, memory loss, disorientation, incoherence, slurred speech, drowsiness, and exhaustion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The U.S. governments Occupational Safety &amp; Health Administration (OSHA) recommended steps for a person suffering from hypothermia:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Call 911 immediately in an emergency; otherwise seek medical assistance as soon as possible.<\/li>\n<li>Move the person to a warm, dry area.<\/li>\n<li>Remove wet clothes and replace with dry clothes, cover the body (including the head and neck) with layers of blankets; and with a vapor barrier (e.g. tarp, garbage bag). Do<strong> not<\/strong> cover the face.<\/li>\n<li>If medical help is more than 30 minutes away:\n<ul>\n<li>Give warm sweetened drinks if alert (no alcohol), to help increase the body temperature. Never try to give a drink to an unconscious person.<\/li>\n<li>Place warm bottles or hot packs in armpits, sides of chest, and groin. Call 911 for additional rewarming instructions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>If a person is not breathing or has no pulse:\n<ul>\n<li>Call 911 for emergency medical assistance immediately.<\/li>\n<li>Treat the worker as per instructions for hypothermia, but be very careful and do not try to give an unconscious person fluids.<\/li>\n<li>Check him\/her for signs of breathing and for a pulse. Check for 60 seconds.<\/li>\n<li>If after 60 seconds the affected worker is not breathing and does not have a pulse, trained workers may start rescue breaths for 3 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Recheck for breathing and pulse, check for 60 seconds.<\/li>\n<li>If the worker is still not breathing and has no pulse, continue rescue breathing.<\/li>\n<li>Only start chest compressions per the direction of the 911 operator or emergency medical services<sup>*<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>Reassess patients physical status periodically.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hypothermia occurs when body temperature falls below 95 degrees Fahrenheit. Visible warning signs include uncontrollable shivering, memory loss, disorientation, incoherence, slurred speech, drowsiness, and exhaustion. The U.S. governments Occupational Safety &amp; Health Administration (OSHA) recommended steps for a person suffering from hypothermia: Call &hellip;<span class=\"more\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/basic-meteorology\/what-is-hypothermia\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,397],"tags":[386,441,396,395,254,398,446],"class_list":["post-1858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basic-meteorology","category-weather-glossary","tag-glossary","tag-hypothermia","tag-meteorology-glossary","tag-meteorology-terms","tag-preparedness","tag-weather-glossary-2","tag-winter-weather-preparedness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3804,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions\/3804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}