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  • Title: One night in a snowbank: a case report of severe hypothermia and cardiac arrest.
    Author: Moser B, Voelckel W, Gardetto A, Sumann G, Wenzel V.
    Journal: Resuscitation; 2005 Jun; 65(3):365-8. PubMed ID: 15919575.
    Abstract:
    Hypothermia < 28 degrees C is rarely compatible with life, with only a few cases described surviving such low temperatures. We present a case of a man who survived with a core body temperature below 21.0 degrees C after spending a night in a snowbank with an ambient temperatures as low as -20.0 degrees C. Prolonged CPR and early initiation of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation enabled survival without neurological deficit at hospital discharge. Frostbite was limited to both hands and all toes only; although the entire upper and lower extremity appeared to be deeply frozen on admission, amputation of both hands was inevitable and resulted in permanent disability.
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