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Indoor accidental hypothermia in the elderly: an emerging lethal entity in the 21st century

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  • Peter Paal Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Hospitallers Brothers Hospital Teaching Hospital of the Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Simon Rauch Institute of Mountain Emergency Medicine, EURAC research, Bolzano, Italy Department of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital LMU, Munich, Germany Department of Sports Science, Medical Section, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Peter Paal, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Hospitallers Brothers Hospital Teaching Hospital of the Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg 5020, Austria; peter.paal{at}icloud.com
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Paal P, Rauch S
Indoor accidental hypothermia in the elderly: an emerging lethal entity in the 21st century
Emergency Medicine Journal 2018;35:667-668.

Publication history

  • Received June 27, 2018
  • Revised August 14, 2018
  • Accepted August 15, 2018
  • First published August 29, 2018.
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November 21, 2018

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