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Management

The UK National Health Service advises against putting a person in a hot bath, massaging their arms and legs, using a heating pad, or giving them alcohol. These measures can cause a rapid fall in blood pressure and potential cardiac arrest.

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Rewarming"Passive rewarming is recommended for those with mild hypothermia.[64]""Active external rewarming methods are recommended for moderate hypothermia.[64] these two seem fine. If you are using the same refs as in the text, leave the references and edit the text only."Survival rates with normal mental functioning have been reported at around 50%.[2] '''As discussed, find a more appropriate place for this evidence. You can move references once you are in the visual editor mode in the Wikipedia article.'''

When severe hypothermia has led to cardiac arrest, effective extracorporeal warming results in survival with normal mental function about 50% of the time.[2] See above comment

Rewarming shock (or rewarming collapse) is a sudden drop in blood pressure combined with a low cardiac output which frequently occurs during rewarming of a severely hypothermic person.[66][67] Whilst the real cause of rewarming shock is still unknown, it has been attributed to decreased blood volume, cardiac arrhythmias that arise from muscle movement, and continued core cooling after rescue known as Afterdrop.[2] In cases of rewarming shock, active external and passive external rewarming methods are advised.[2][48]

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Fluids

For people who are alert and able to swallow, providing the person with warm sweetened liquids can help raise their temperature.[2] Alcohol and caffeinated drinks should be avoided.[62]

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Many recommend that alcohol and drinks with lots of caffeine be avoided.

Cardiac arrest

In those without signs of life, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) should be continued during active rewarming.[2] For ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia, a single defibrillation should be attempted.[69] However, people with severe hypothermia may not respond to pacing or defibrillation.[69] It is not known if further defibrillation should be withheld until core temperature reaches 30 °C (86 °F).[69] In Europe, epinephrine is not recommended until the person's core temperature reaches 30 °C (86 °F), while the American Heart Association recommends up to three doses of epinephrine before a person's core temperature reaches 30 °C (86 °F).[2]

[ 81] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hypothermia/symptoms-causes/syc-20352682

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hypothermia/symptoms-causes/syc-20352682

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Comments
Thank you for your recommendations and for sharing them here. For some reason your citations link to the Wikipedia article, that is probably what Jytdog meant. As for the Mayo clinic, this is a tough one as per MEDRS. There are no references, no peer review, etc. Sometimes we may be able to use their docs for background info. There has been extensive debate on Wikipedia regarding this if you look at the WP:MEDRS talk page archive. You had no way of knowing this and have not done anything wrong!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=mayo+clinic&prefix=Wikipedia+talk%3AIdentifying+reliable+sources+%28medicine%29%2F&title=Special:Search&profile=default&fulltext=1

I can help you fix your citations (the ones linked to the WP article) and this may lead to strange coding being added in when you actually edit Wikipedia. I have time to look at this today, so lets work together to get this ready to add. Thanks for your patience in all of this. JenOttawa (talk) 9:32, 16 November 2018 (EST)

JenOttawa (talk) 10:23, 16 November 2018 (EST)