Case Study: Falling Through the Ice
What would you do to help a patient with hypothermia while winter camping?
What would you do to help a patient with hypothermia while winter camping?
Do you know how to prevent, recognize, and treat a non-freezing cold injury (NFCI)? Test your wilderness medicine skills with this case study.
Do you know how to help with first aid for winter injuries and illnesses?
Advice from the pros on how to take care of your feet when they get cold.
Taking care of your feet while camping is one of the best gifts you can give yourself.
Here you’ll find advice from the pros—NOLS instructors, employees, even our wilderness medicine curriculum director Tod Schimelpfenig—on how to take care of your feet when they get cold.
A WFR graduate recalls responding to a hypothermic patient while stuck in a hut in Norway's mountains.
4 Ways You Can Get Cold (And How Not To)
Be proactive. Check out these 7 tips for how to prevent frostbite in cold environments.
People always wonder about the value of a warm person snuggling with a cold person in a sleeping bag as a response to hypothermia in the wilderness.