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Management of Frostbite Involving Hands or Feet

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Are you evaluating a person with frostbite injury of a hand or foot?

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Is there evidence of deep injury on clinical examination?

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Is the limb salvagable on triple phase scan?

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Management of Frostbite Involving Hands or Feet

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Management of Frostbite Involving Hands or Feet

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Purpose:

To manage a patient with frostbite injury of a distal limb using the algorithm of Greenwald et al.

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Emergency Medicine
Critical Care

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T35.6

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