Articles · Topic
Articles about Hypothermia
11 articles across 4 sections
Section
Community
Cooling, Warming and Cleaner Air Sites
How a house of worship can run a daytime cooling, warming, cleaner air or charging site: what to measure first, when to call 911 and when to close for the day.
Wellness Checks That Protect Privacy
Set up a voluntary check-in call program for your faith community: what to promise, what to record, the caller script and when a volunteer calls 911 first.
Section
Self-Reliance
Head, Dental & Environmental Emergencies: Heat, Cold & CO
First aid for head injuries, concussion, knocked-out tooth, dehydration, heat exhaustion, heatstroke, hypothermia, frostbite, and carbon monoxide poisoning.
Living in a Car With a Dog: Safety, Routine, and Gear
Living in your car with a dog: AVMA guidance on parked cars, signs of heat and cold stress, routine, food storage, ID, and parking lot hazards like antifreeze.
Sleeping Warm in Your Vehicle, Safely
How to stay warm sleeping in a car: the four carbon monoxide rules from CDC and CPSC, layering, battery heated blankets, and the signs of hypothermia.
Section
Preparedness
Staying Warm During an Apartment Power Outage
How to stay warm during a power outage when you live in an apartment. What works, what will kill you, when to leave, and why shared walls are your big
Staying Warm During an Outage
Maintaining safe temperatures during a winter outage. Room consolidation, safe supplemental heating, layering, carbon monoxide prevention, recognizing hypothermia, and when to leave.
Winter Storm: What to Do Right Now
What to do in a dangerous winter storm: staying warm without carbon monoxide risk, surviving a stranded vehicle, and the hypothermia and frostbite signs that mean call 911. Immediate action during a blizzard or winter storm.
Section
Gear and Buying Guides
Emergency Blankets, Bivvies & Tube Tents: The Definitive Buyer's Handbook
A calm, sourced buyer's handbook for emergency blankets, Mylar tube tents, emergency bivvies, and tarp shelters: why they are cover rather than shelter, condensation and breathable bivvies, what the 90 percent heat claim means, carbon monoxide and hypothermia safety, and honest prices for car, pack, and home kits.
Hot Water Bottles and Hand Warmers: The Definitive Buyer's Handbook
A calm, sourced buyer's handbook for personal warmers: how hot water bottles, air-activated hand warmers, and rechargeable hand warmers make heat, who should not rely on feeling the heat (diabetes, frostbite, babies, sleep), CPSC scald times, the 2026 recalls of rechargeable hand warmers and lithium-ion charging care, heating water safely in an outage without a camp stove indoors, what a warmer cannot do, honest prices, and what to check before buying.
Sleeping Bags and Sleeping Pads: The Definitive Buyer's Handbook
A calm, sourced buyer's handbook for sleeping bags and sleeping pads: what ISO comfort and lower limit ratings really mean, why the pad matters as much as the bag (ASTM F3340 R-values), down versus synthetic and bag shapes, wool blankets, sleeping warm in a cold house during a winter outage without fuel-burning heat indoors, what a sleeping bag cannot do (including for babies), honest prices, and what to check before buying.