Self assessment exercises in cold weather remote medicine.
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1. You are in the middle of a three month deployment to Norway, undergoing Arctic training with your unit. While on a 3-day exercise, a 24-year-old corporal presents to you with numb index and middle fingers on his right hand, having been fiddling for over twenty minutes with a frozen ski binding. His index and middle fingers look waxy over the area of the finger pulp and although feel hard superficially the deeper tissues feel pliable. You suspect he is suffering from "frostbite".
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
دوره 147 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001