Arctic Medicine: Arctic Medicine, Day 2: Frostbite

 

Friday, January 02, 2009

Arctic Medicine, Day 2: Frostbite

Today, I was on-call at the Emergency at the only hospital north of the Arctic Circle. 

The first guy that walked in was an Inuit man in his late 30's. One look at him and you knew there was something wrong because his face was lopsided, swollen, red, raw, and oozing with bright yellow fluid that crusted over his face. His face was so swollen you couldn't even see his eyes! I had no idea what was wrong with him at first. 
After listening to his story, I learned that he had travelled by skidoo without covering his eyes at 90km/h on the ice road from Aklavik, which is 1.5 h away. That made me think that this patient was my first case presentation of frostbite.
Treatment for this was to give him NSAIDs, and drain the liquid from his facial swelling. We admitted him.

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