Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines for Prevention and Management of Avalanche and Nonavalanche Snow Burial Accidents.

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To provide guidance to clinicians and avalanche professionals about best practices, the Wilderness Medical Society convened an expert panel to develop evidence-based guidelines for the prevention, rescue, and medical management of avalanche and nonavalanche snow burial victims. Recommendations are graded on the basis of quality of supporting evidence according to the classification scheme of the American College of Chest Physicians.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Wilderness Environ Med

Title: Wilderness & environmental medicine

Publisher: Elsevier BV

ISSN (Electronic): 1545-1534

ISSN (Print): 1080-6032

Publication date (Electronic): Mar 2017

Volume: 28

Issue: 1

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[1 ] Occupational, Travel, and Emergency Medicine Departments, Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital, Hood River, OR (Dr Van Tilburg); Mountain Rescue Association, San Diego, CA (Drs Van Tilburg, Zafren, Smith, and Wheeler). Electronic address: vantilburg@gorge.net.

[2 ] Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Intermountain Medical Center and the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (Dr Grissom).

[3 ] Mountain Rescue Association, San Diego, CA (Drs Van Tilburg, Zafren, Smith, and Wheeler); Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA (Dr Zafren); International Commission for Mountain Emergency Medicine (Drs Brugger, Paal, and Zafren).

[4 ] Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (Drs McIntosh and Wheeler).

[5 ] Iasis Healthcare Physician Group of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (Dr Radwin).

[6 ] International Commission for Mountain Emergency Medicine (Drs Brugger, Paal, and Zafren); Barts Heart Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom (Dr Paal); Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University Hospital, Innsbruck, Austria (Dr Paal).

[7 ] School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC (Dr Haegeli).

[8 ] Mountain Rescue Association, San Diego, CA (Drs Van Tilburg, Zafren, Smith, and Wheeler); Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Johns Medical Center, Jackson, WY (Drs Smith and Wheeler); Clinical WWAMI Faculty, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA (Dr Smith).

[9 ] Mountain Rescue Association, San Diego, CA (Drs Van Tilburg, Zafren, Smith, and Wheeler); Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (Drs McIntosh and Wheeler); Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Johns Medical Center, Jackson, WY (Drs Smith and Wheeler).

[10 ] Denali National Park & Preserve, Talkeetna, AK (Mr Weber); Intermountain Life Flight, Salt Lake City, UT (Mr Weber).

[11 ] Utah Avalanche Center, Salt Lake City, UT (Mr Tremper).

[12 ] International Commission for Mountain Emergency Medicine (Drs Brugger, Paal, and Zafren); EURAC Institute of Mountain Emergency Medicine, Bolzano, Italy (Dr Brugger).

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Publisher Item ID: S1080-6032(16)30237-X

DOI: 10.1016/j.wem.2016.10.004

PubMed ID: 28257714

SO-VID: d79c330a-f89f-4da3-aa0a-df20751d7bc2

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Keywords: hypothermia,snow burial,avalanche,wilderness medicine,resuscitation,airbags,rescue,air pocket

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Keywords: hypothermia, snow burial, avalanche, wilderness medicine, resuscitation, airbags, rescue, air pocket

Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines for Prevention and Management of Avalanche and Nonavalanche Snow Burial Accidents.

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