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Show r"Tr S V-VH "' fi'"V"V: tvv Mi 11 rVVT'i MnO 'Minn i 4 s Park Record Thursday, March 19, 1987 Page B 11 fl&UOlto EDdDWDD Sports Medicine Keep warm to avoid chill of winter sports threats Park City trio wins Heuga Express with most vertical Hypothermia is definitely not something to take lightly. light-ly. Although the symptoms of mild hypothermia are most often mild, such symptoms should not go unrecognized. Hypothermia becomes significant only when environmental en-vironmental exposures cause body temperature to fall below 95 degrees Fahrenheit. Such exposures are relatively common and frequently fatal, probably because they often go unrecognized. Exposure to cold environment, participation in winter sports, and immersion in cold water can increase the incidence in-cidence of hypothermia. Treatment should be carried out whenever possible by specially trained physicians in well-equipped medical facilities. When an individual's core temperature drops below 95 degrees, an individual is considered to be in a hypothermic hypother-mic state. The core of the body is considered to be the contents of the skull, thorax and abdomen. The extremities ex-tremities and surface of the body make up the shell. There are three primary types of loss of body heat: chronic, subacute or acute. Chronic hypothermia results from exposure to a cold environment for a long period of time. Elderly people attempting at-tempting to conserve fuel and children under the age of one year are prime candidates. The elderly metabolize more slowly and cannot maintain a normal temperature when subjected to an environment below 64 degrees. At 95 to 91.4 degrees the patient is usually alert, cooperative and well-oriented. As the core temperature falls below 93.2 F or 91.4 F, the patient becomes drowsy, has increasing difficult in understanding and responding and has great difficulty in speaking. Amnesia usually occurs oc-curs when the temperature falls below 89.6 F. At 93.2 F to 89.6 F, the patient's face may be swollen and pink, the pulse slow and weak, blood pressure low and cardiac rhythm irregular. The elderly hypothermic seldom shivers. Symptoms are such that the physician might believe the patient is having or has had a stroke, or has Parkinson's Disease or cardiac problems. At 87.8 F to 86.0 F, the patient is stuporous but can be aroused to answer simple questions, although speech is deteriorated. At 84.2 F to 82.4, the patient can still answer questions but usually after a long delay. At 80.6 F to 78.8 F, only groaning responses are made and below 78.8 F, consciousness is usually lost. Subacute hypothermia occurs in patients suffering from cold exposure. Examples are a man who has spent a winter night outdoors after a fall while inebriate and one involved in a winter skiing accident, both with core temperatues below 91.4 F. Symptoms include a very cold patient who may or may not be shivering and may or may not be conscious, but who may have any or all of the following: low blood pressure, slurred speech, shallow breathing, cardiac arrythmia, focal weakness, dilated pupils, ataxic gait, and sensory lossf Acute hypothermia is a term generally reserved for cases of immersion in cold water below 70 F. Although man can become hypothermic when exposed to water of 70 F, acute hypothermia is usually seen clinically after exposure to water below 50 F. As the exterior of the body cools, vasoconstriction reduces blood flow to the limbs. This life-saving mechanism of the body renders the limbs useless after a short period of time. Such vasoconstriction is a part of the Mammalian Diving Reflexe, which slows many body functions when cold water or air makes contact with the bridge of the nose. It is one reason that near-drowning victims may be revived after long immersion with no permanent brain damage. As body temperature goes down, the victim becomes unconscious, and physiological activity slows. Body size, fat content, time of exposure and protective clothing are all factors that influence the rate of cooling. For this reason, the length of time a person may be immersed and still survive varies. The symptoms of mild hypothermia are usually subtle; sub-tle; they may appear in association with other symtoms or mimic a completely different illness. Lack of shivering should not preclude consideration of hypothermia because many people, especially the elderly, elder-ly, do not shiver even when their temperature has dropped drop-ped below 89.6 F, and shivering usually ceases when temperature drops below 86 F to 84.2 F. Injured sports enthusiasts should be insulated from the cold at the earliest possible moment. Space blankets, plastic bags and extra clothing all help to prevent heat loss. A team of Park City residents Adolph Imboden, Holly Flanders and John Carpenter skied their way despite injuries to winning the Jim-mie Jim-mie Heuga USA Express held at Snowbird, March 13. The event, which is a national fun-draising fun-draising ski marathon for the Jim-mie Jim-mie Heuga Center, vies teams of three against one another competing to gain the most vertical feet skied in one day. According to Flanders, retired member of the U.ST Ski Team, her team skied close to 99,000 vertical feet and was able to overcome injuries in-juries sustained by Imboden who dislocated his shoulder before breaking for the mandatory one-hour one-hour lunch period. Flanders admitted she was not in the best shape either after falling last week in a legends of skiing event held in Vail, Colo. Flanders said she was skiing "conservatively" on Friday Fri-day as a result. Flanders said that each run equalled approximately 1,000 vertical ver-tical feet, meaning the Park City trio skied a combined 9!) runs. ; , ' 1. - Y7 I --X t 1 iJ - ... i ft j -rn f A. r- Para-ski results: Men's Division 1. Mike Mangold 2. Dave Kaiser 3. Chris Tobler 4. Tony Fugit 5. Kevin Martain 6. Peter Levy 7. John Cashman 8. Jim Johnson 9. Pat Quaschnick 10. Bob Blanchard 11. Werner Kaufmann 12. Rick Rundell 13. Frank Radford 14. Wayne Bolt 15. Jim Breitsprecher 16. Scott Stewart 17. Robert Lennon 18. BiU Driver 19. Jeffrey Hove 20. Daryl Galloway Women's Division 1. Jill Gundersen 2. Michelle Cashman 3. Lynda Forney 4. Rolayne Mattsson 5. Laura Cannon 6. Denise Haas Men's Intermediate Division 1. LeeLindhardt 2. Steve Weaver 3. J.Winklekotter 4. Eric Vickery tun ma rTn Jin -v Unriut I Token Town Racer Shown above is Gary Loritz, president and owner of Spa Tenders, in the March 9, Town Race at the Park City Ski Area. 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