J. Wyatt, Robert G. Taylor, K. de Wit, E. Hotton, Robin J. Illingworth, Colin E. Robertson
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This chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Emergency Medicine investigates environmental emergencies in the emergency department (ED). It starts by examining the presentation and management of hypothermia, frostbite, and non-freezing cold injury. It examines drowning, near drowning, and diving emergencies, and also explores heat illness, electrical injury, and radiation accident.