Wilderness Medicine Wednesday Ep 3 Hypothermia!
Вставка
- Опубліковано 27 лют 2024
- If you like this content you can support me by buying me a coffee, right here. ko-fi.com/adventureotaku
Here is the study about Paradoxical Undressing! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/541627/
My most popular books are now available on the Ko-Fi shop. Including the 16 page Guides Way pdf's. ko-fi.com/adventureotaku/shop
I offer free stroke consultation! Send me a video of you paddling with the camera in front of you, and I’ll send it back with notes! Brett@adventureotaku.com
The Gear I use:
By Clicking these links (and making a purchase) it sends a few pennies my way.
Kayak - Delta Seventeen - tinyurl.com/bd6p26zx
Paddle - Lendal Voyager
Paddle - Werner Camano - alnk.to/goZBilR (But I use the all carbon version)
Paddle - Werner Kalliste - bit.ly/3L7GPCD
PFD - Astral Greenjacket - bit.ly/3mF0RKI
Drysuit - Kokatat Gore-tex Meridian - bit.ly/3JkUoMH
Personal Locator Beacon - ACR Resqlink - bit.ly/3L7wHtG
Compass - Suunto M3D - alnk.to/9T7z0bb
Stove - MSR Whisperlite International - alnk.to/6xJamH6
I recently changed the dry bags I use, these bags made by Zen Bivy are
The best I have ever used. You can get them here! www.avantlink.com/click.php?t...
You can see a video about them here! • Are These the New Prem...
If you need help getting started paddling or backpacking, check out my books on Amazon and Apple Books. tinyurl.com/r79u9mnd
The Simple Guide to Kayak Camping - tinyurl.com/bdh55wb5
The Simple Guide to Kayaking - tinyurl.com/3kwmkcwr
GO! - the trip planning book -tinyurl.com/mrxa6vxy
The Simple Guide to Backpacking - tinyurl.com/mws2t92k
The Simple Guide to SUP - tinyurl.com/26y3m82d
The Adventure Journal - tinyurl.com/s8sefaw6
All my books for iPad - tinyurl.com/aya5pc3j
My Most Popular Videos:
Choosing a kayak - Length Matters - • Understanding Kayak St...
Choosing a kayak - Understanding rocker - • Choosing a Kayak Und...
3 season VS 4 season tents - • 3 season vs 4 season t...
First Aid Kits - • NOLS Wilderness First ...
Paddling in High Winds - • Kayak Instructor Life:...
KOA Campgrounds - • Now I understand KOA c...
Kayaking Skills Videos
Packing your kayak - • Packing for Kayak Camp...
Edging your kayak - • Edging your Kayak - Fo...
Turning a long Kayak - • Turning A Long Kayak*
Mastering the Forward Stroke - • Mastering the Kayak Fo...
Teaching the Forward Stroke - • Kayak Instructor Life ...
Tips for the outdoors:
Ten tips for Sea kayakers - • 10 Tips for Sea Kayakers
Ten more! - • 10 MORE kayaking tips!
The Ten Essentials - • The Ten Essentials For...
Follow me!
on Instagram / adventure.otaku
The Adventure Otaku Theme was composed and performed by IainB - and you can get it on Bandcamp - iainb.bandcamp.com
#outdoors #outdoorfun #outdoorgear #kayaking #safety #kayaksafety #outdoorsafety #kayak #paddler #paddleinstructor #seakayak #kayak #kayaker #kayaking #outdoors #outdoorlife #outdoorfun #outdoorgear #adventure #backpacking #backpack #backpacker #outdooreducation #outdoorgear - Спорт
Happened to me hiking a mountain in Finland on my own. Got caught in a blizzard in summer. Brain when nub and ran down the mountain to try warm up. Can only remember finding myself in a small mountain hut with two people with a stove lighting. Just can't remember how I got there
Yikes.
Had a young lady with mild hypothermia on a multi day wander in the wilderness many years ago. An unforecast cold storm came through when we were on the tops. Stopped and got her into my waterproof/windproof outer layer and some food and hot drink into her. Catching and dealing with it early makes life much easier.
With just about everything in Wilderness medicine. Early detection/prevention is key
The undressing thing does happen. One of the larger references to it was during the French retreat from Russia after Napoleon's failed invasion. There have also been a number of hikers found deceased and undressed after a distress call.
I find it important to understand that hypothermia arrives in many ways. The pathway for rapid onset hypothermia differs from a more gradual exposure based hypothermia. I've had both. Immersion is rapid onset and paddlers are more familiar with it.
Gradual onset can happen when sleeping in a system not warm enough, or hiking in a cold rain all day, paddling for hours in cold air or just being outside without enough layers.
It's the gradual onset that is sneakiest. I spent a 10 degree night in a 20 degree sleep system and felt chilly most of the night. Got up in the morning and walked around camp chatting with the other campers, then just became dizzy and face planted in the snow.
The undressing phenomena tends to happen when someone is trudging on while dipping into more severe levels of hypothermia (like a lost hiker or a retreating soldier without shoes). Since they are moving up until the end, the heart is still pumping and the lungs burning. I'm not aware of any survivors after they've undressed that were interviewed, but I imagine their failing brains sent some sort of signal that they were overheating and not freezing. If you did find someone in that state still living, the shock from an attempted resuscitation would probably finish them.
The part paddlers need to worry most about with that 1-10-1 rule is that your immersion usually means you've capsized. An involuntary inhale when you're upside down can lead to an almost immediate drowning. I've "heard" of skilled paddlers being found still attached to their kayaks with their skirts. They knew how to roll, but the initial shock paired with inhaling cold water kept them from ever getting to the ten minute part.
And it does take a lot to recover, even in ideal circumstances. It generally takes me a warm night's sleep from moderate hypothermia, and I feel zapped until then. Not something you just shrug off and keep moving from.
I don’t think the paradoxical undressing doesn’t happen, but I think it is pretty rare. And If I can arrange it, I want to do a drowning video soon. A doctor and outdoor educator I know is one of the premier experts on drowning.
@@AdventureOtaku Do us a favor and talk about it without demonstrating it!
Hmmm…that might be a good idea.
I had Hypothermia as a kid, it is horrible, I have never felt so helpless before or since.
I was about 9 or 10 at the time and we when to a Lock in Scotland Called Lock Indorb which had a Island
in the middle of it with a ruined Castle. I was playing in a rubber dingy with my older sister when she pushed me out with out the oars. I ended up drifting out very near to the Castle as the wind had taken me that way. I was already having trouble. I tried
to wave to my family and Family friends for help. they just waved back at me thinking I was having a very good time floating on the water. Luckily the wind had a slight change of direction and start to move me to the shore of the Lock. I could barely move
and tried to paddle with my hands to help get me back to the shore. This is when my Dad noticed things were not as they should be and ran over to where i was coming in. I couldn't walk or talk much sense as I was shivering uncontrollably. I was taken back
to our car when every towel we had between the two families was wrapped around me. My Mum was a Axillary Nurse before we moved to Scotland. It was a lovely hot summers day, but the Lock was a bit on the cold side at the shore and it got colder and colder the
more I drifted out, as it just sapped any heat away from me. I can't remember the journey home or feeling cold after being wrapped up n towels in the back of the car, I don't remember even going to bed that night. it is all a blank.
A few years ago friends of ours, that we normally meet up with every summer on the Ilse
of Mull in the Summer for two weeks. He is a former Outdoor Instructor and still very active on the water. questioned why I had bought a 5 mm wetsuit for snorkeling as he normally wears a 3mm one as I have done in previous years. The we went off snorkeling
a bit farther off shore and he then realised why I have a 5 mm suit now as he got cold and I was still out an hour after he had come back to our Motorhomes. I used to get cold in places and would then find a nice warm current to warm up in I would spend hours
out there. Didn't go snorkeling once last year as I was to busy having fun in my Kayak.
I would love to go back on that Lock in my Kayak and land on the Island. To add to things
that day there was two Canoeist (kayakers) as they were called then on the water and they didn't even come over and check on me. as I was waving for help by then. That was even in the days you could talk to a child without anyone think the worse of it.
Oy, what a story.
Been there, it ain’t fun! Great video. You should do one on heat emergencies too. I’ve had to deal with a couple of those climbing and paddling
It’s on the list! Thanks. I’ll do this one closer to the summer. Thanks for watching.
Great video - this is a topic I've been interested in after taking up winter paddling. What was the temperature of the water the day you filmed this?
If I recall correctly right around 40 degrees
WMW!
You and I might be the only ones watching these.....
I hope you take this constructively...your videos are fantastic, very informative and helpful. The transition music volume between your into and beginning of the segment is horrific and really, really needs to be fixed, the volume is the issue, not the content...I can't possibly be the 1st person to comment on that....with that said, I really do think your videos are fantastic!!
Im glad you like the videos! I have gotten that complaint twice before, and both times I have lowered the volume of that opening track. I will do so again - but keep in mind I have like three weeks of videos already produced so it will take a bit before you notice the change. Sorry.
@@AdventureOtaku It doesn't stop me from watching, Thanks for responding. I'm looking forward to your future video!