• Non-freezing cold injuries (NFCI) is a class of tissue damage caused by sustained exposure to low temperature without actual freezing. There are several...
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    rewarming. The process of frostbite differs from the process of non-freezing cold injury (NFCI). In NFCI, temperature in the tissue decreases gradually...
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    at temperatures above freezing, and can be classed as a form of non-freezing cold injury. Onset can be as rapid as 10 hours. Risk factors include overly...
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    injuries. Cold-related skin injuries are categorized into freezing and nonfreezing cold injuries. Freezing cold injuries involve tissue damage when exposed...
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    condition caused by repeated exposure of skin to temperatures just above freezing. The cold causes damage to small blood vessels in the skin. This damage is permanent...
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    frequently when predisposed individuals, predominantly women, are exposed to cold and humidity. Ulcerated chilblains are referred to as kibes. Temperature-related...
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    as with a mallet finger. They can be damaged by cold, including frostbite and non-freezing cold injury (NFCI); and heat, including burns. The fingers are...
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    incapacitate the diver and are directly life-threatening. Non-freezing cold injury Regulator freezing: Entrapment by moving ice: Slipping on ice: Diving gear...
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  • temperatures below 12°C (53.6°F) can cause permanent damage. Tissue damage by freezing of the extremities is a hazard of ice diving, mainly when the diver is...
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    actual cause of death in cold or very cold water is usually lethal bodily reactions to increased heat loss and to freezing water, rather than any loss...
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    East Iceland Current – Cold water ocean current that forms as a branch of the East Greenland Current Labrador Current – Cold current in the Atlantic...
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    decompression sickness and arterial gas embolism due to lung overexpansion injury. decompression model A conceptual explanation for the physiological effects...
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    and to dump the supply to the environment if the water is too hot or too cold. The manifold distributes the water through the suit through perforated tubes...
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  • contains no footage that was shot the day he died, and that the footage of his injury and death had been destroyed. Justin Lyons, a cameraman for the documentary...
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    Consequences Barotrauma Decompression sickness Drowning Hypothermia Hypoxia Hypercapnia Hyperthermia Non-freezing cold injury...
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    the other hand to push the victim's jaw up. The corpses had no visible injuries, and were supplied to medical schools for money. Compressive asphyxia (also...
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    from entanglement NFCI Non-freezing cold injury: Permanent tissue damage due to low temperature exposure without any freezing damage. Subsection: Top...
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    Regional Headquarters Allied Forces North in 2002–2003. For much of the Cold War, the role of 21 SAS and 23 SAS was to provide stay-behind parties in...
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    of the political environment in America in the 1980s, the film presents a Cold War theme, with the looming tensions of nuclear warfare not featured in the...
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    Queensland. They had two children, Bindi and Robert. In 2006, Irwin died from an injury caused by a stingray while filming an underwater documentary in the Great...
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    World War II and the Korean War (1941–1953): 96 personnel Vietnam and the Cold War (1954–1989): 104 personnel Desert Storm and the war on terror (1990 –...
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    which in turn increases the risk of other injuries. Non-freezing cold injury can affect the extremities in cold water diving, and frostbite can occur when...
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    signals brought the survivor count to 767, four of whom later died from injuries sustained during the sinking. HMS Juno sortied briefly in contravention...
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    2018, a junior association football team was rescued from Tham Luang Nang Non, a cave system in Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand. Twelve members...
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    Consequences Barotrauma Decompression sickness Drowning Hypothermia Hypoxia Hypercapnia Hyperthermia Non-freezing cold injury...
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    capillaries instead of to the lungs. This process is useful to ectothermic (cold-blooded) animals in the regulation of their body temperature. Mammals, birds...
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    provided an approximation that described the tides that would occur in a non-inertial ocean evenly covering the whole Earth. The tide-generating force...
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    Consequences Barotrauma Decompression sickness Drowning Hypothermia Hypoxia Hypercapnia Hyperthermia Non-freezing cold injury...
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    Consequences Barotrauma Decompression sickness Drowning Hypothermia Hypoxia Hypercapnia Hyperthermia Non-freezing cold injury...
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    2024. Ward, Mike (9 April 2014). Scuba Regulator Freezing: Chilling Facts & Risks Associated with Cold Water Diving (PDF) (Report). Panama Beach, Fl.:...
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