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Cold injuries

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Background

Frostbite occurs only when ambient temperatures are well below freezing
Nonfreezing cold injuries occur due to exposure to cold conditions above freezing

Differential Diagnosis

Cold injuries

Generalized
- Accidental hypothermia
- Therapeutic hypothermia
Freezing
- Frostbite
Non-freezing
- Trench foot
- Chilblains (Pernio)
- Cold panniculitis
- Cold urticaria
- Polar thigh

See Also

Therapeutic hypothermia

References

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Environmental

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