Casualty Care in the cold. Casualty management priorities, Formula 1 pit stop team approach; Hypothermia wraps/protection & heat loss prevention in the field:
Formula 1 pit stop hypothermia approach . Heat loss / Cold needs to be managed from the outset. It’s something most of us in the outdoor/expedition medical world have been doing for decades. It’s nothing new. We do this by using group shelters / bothy bags and also other interventions. Good skills to have the wider team trained to do this in parallel at the very start of the very longstanding CABCDE approach. It’s exactly why our ‘Check cards’ have been headed by a ‘Cold Card