Welcome to the recess room podcast.

Five, four, three, two, one, fire.

So hi, and welcome back to the recess room podcast. I'm Simon Lang.

I'm Rob Fenwick, and I'm James Yates.

And we're very aptly back with another

roadside to recess on hypothermia in this chilly February. You say aptly, Simon, I do feel like

we missed the boat slightly because I'm looking out of my window and all of the snow has gone. So I feel

like we, you know, we peaked. We had this idea when it was cold and now it's just got that kind of slightly rubbishy, wintery, English stuff going on. I'm with James. We've missed the boat

on us. But anyway, let's play. Let's hope for a cold march. It's be great for next year.

I was really trying to engage the listeners there, but thanks very much. We'll do that for you, mate. You just crack on with the editing. I'll just sit here

in my speedos in the lovely warm weather and carry on. Luckily, we're not on a video call.

Thank God. So hypotherm is a really common presentation. It's something that offers a lot of

challenging decision-making. So we're going to be running through hypothermia some detail,

and there's going to be some crossover into drowning as well.

But keep an eye out for one of our further rotocidal resources, which is going to cover drowning a bit later on in the year.

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All right, so I think a customary place to start then is with a definition and a bit of an outline of the problem at hand.

So what we're going to be mostly talking about today then, I guess, is accidental hypothermia or primary hypothermia.

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