accidental hypothermia

Accidental hypothermia usually happens after cold temperature exposure without enough warm, dry clothing for protection.

It was also the first successful use of a heart-lung bypass machine to rewarm a child whose temperature had plunged in accidental hypothermia.

Gilbert said "victims of very deep accidental hypothermia with circulatory arrest should be seen as potentially resuscitable with a prospect of full recovery.

When the doctors gauged what a drenching in a cold cell might do to a prisoner, they did their research, consulting a textbook entitled "Wilderness Medicine," in particular Chapter 6 on "accidental hypothermia," as well as a Canadian government pamphlet, "Survival in Cold Waters," according to footnotes.