Clinical Trial: Efficacy and Pathophysiological Implications of a New Asphyxiation Delaying Device
Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: RECRUITING
Condition: Avalanche, Landslide, or Mudslide
Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
Official Title: A New Device to Delay Asphyxiation in Subjects Critically Buried in Avalanche Debris: Efficacy and Pathophysiological Implications
Brief Summary:
Survival of fully buried avalanche victims depends in major part on a triad of hypoxia, hypercapnia, and hypothermia and therefore decreases rapidly after complete burial.Besides optimizing companion rescue, which still today and even by trained people often takes more than 15 minutes to the extraction of an avalanche victim, prolonging the ability to breath after critical avalanche burial increases survival probability by giving rescuers more time to find and unbury avalanche victims.Based on previous research,…
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