Environmental injuries (cold and heat)

How do humans primarily produce heat?

• Burning glucose to create energy

• By eating hot foods and liquids

• By resting and gathering our energy

This type of heat loss- Is where you loose heat from your body into the air

• Conduction

• Convection

• Radiation

• Evaporation

This type of heat loss- Is where you loose heat from being on or against a cold surface

• Conduction

• Convection

• Radiation

• Evaporation

This type of heat loss- Is where you loose heat from being exposed to wind and cold

• Conduction

• Convection

• Radiation

• Evaporation

This type of heat loss- Is where you loose heat from being exposed wet skin or clothes

• Conduction

• Convection

• Radiation

• Evaporation

How should you dress for cold weather?

• With layers of clothes that breathe and protect you from the wind including hats, gloves and warm socks

• With one big outer layer with a a cotton base layer

• With 3 layers of cotton and a cotton beanie

The body has a built in way to detect a cold illness like hypothermia

• True

• False

Which is not a sign of hypothermia?

• Shivering

• Clumsiness or lack of coordination

• Slurred speech or mumbling (umbles) Stumbling

• A feeling that they are too cold and should seek help

• Confusion or difficulty thinking Poor decision making, such as trying to remove warm clothes Drowsiness or very low energy

How should you treat hypothermia? choose all the correct answers

• Move the person out of the cold

• Remove wet clothing

• Rewarm the person with dry clothes/blankets

• Give them warm beverages that are not caffeinated or alcoholic.

• Bring them to the nearest bathtub and run a HOT bath for them.

Frost bite is when the skin...

• is very cold

• starts to freeze

• get really red and hot