Disease Information for Hypothermia, accidental/exposure (Clinical Manifestations)
Synonyms:
Hypothermia, Hypothermia due to exposure, Hypothermia due to exposure (disorder)
Prolonged lowered body core temperature from environment and weakened body physiologic response; core temp usually below 34 centegrade or 93 F; treatment is physical warming;cardiac arrhythmias are often lethal during the warming phase
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Clinical Manifestations
- Signs & Symptoms
- Paradoxical shedding of clothes/heat-cold distorsion
- Arrhythmia signs/irregular pulse
- Blue lips
- Bradycardia of about 30 beats/min
- Capillary Refill Time/CRT Abnormal
- Cardiac Symptoms/Signs
- Cyanosis
- Decreased peripheral pulses
- Dorsalis pedis pulse decreased
- Falling blood pressure/progessive/signs
- Hypotension with Relative Bradycardia
- Low Blood Pressure
- Orthostatic drop in blood pressure
- Peculiar warm tingling body sensatiom
- Regional pallor/vasospasm
- Signs of Poor Perfusion
- Slow pulse/Bradycardia
- Vasospasm of extremities/Signs
- Cold clammy skin
- Skin cold/diffuse
- Cold hands/fingers and toes
- Cyanotic extremity
- Muscle stiffness/rigidity
- Muscle tone/decreased
- Stiffness in Extremities
- Weak/Weak as a kitten (symptom)
- Absent knee reflexes
- Acute ataxia
- Altered mental status Mental status change
- Ankle reflexes absent
- Ankle reflexes decreased
- Apathy/Indifference
- Ataxia
- Ataxia
- CNS symptoms/signs
- Cognitive defect
- Confusion/agitation on exam
- Confusion/Disoriented
- Coordination/signs
- Delirium
- Delirium/Agitated delirium
- Drowsiness/somnolence
- Dysarthria
- Fine-motor coordination problems
- Hung reflexes (prolonged relaxation)/Woltman sign
- Hyporeflexia/DTRs decreased
- Impaired judgement/signs
- Intoxicated state/ataxia/slurred speech
- Irritability/short tempered
- Limb Ataxia
- Limb ataxia/clumsiness child
- Numbness/distal fingers and toes
- Obtunded/poorly responsive status/signs
- Pupils fixed/dilated
- Slow speech
- Slurred Speech/Acute
- Staggering Gait
- Stupor/poor reponse to stimulus
- Sudden unconsciousness
- Unconscious/Narcosis status
- Weak reflexes
- Blue nailbeds
- Bradypnea Decreased respiratory rate
- Hypoventilation Signs
- Hallucination/visual
- Oliguria/Decreased urine output
- Acutely ill patient/signs
- Chills
- Cold clammy pale status
- Enervated/extreme acute fatigue
- Intoxication/overdose syndrome
- Listlessness/lassitude
- Low body temperature
- Mucous membrane pallor
- Neonatal edema/anasarca
- Pallor
- Shivering
- Weakness non-neuromuscular/systemic
- Pupillary reaction/sluggish
- Typical Clinical Presentation
- Coma with normal Head CT Scan
- Clinical Presentation & Variations
- Disease Progression
- Course/Acute
- Course/Acute only
- Signs & Symptoms
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