RT Book, Section A1 Bowers, Rebecca C. A1 Vivolo, Jon C. A2 Stone, C. Keith A2 Humphries, Roger L. SR Print(0) ID 1176296655 T1 Disorders due to Physical & Environmental Agents T2 CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment: Emergency Medicine, 8e YR 2017 FD 2017 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9780071840613 LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1176296655 RD 2024/10/10 AB Individuals vary considerably in their response to cold environments. Hypothermia can occur in a wide variety of environmental settings. Factors that increase the risk of injury from cold include poor general physical condition, nonacclimatization, childhood or advanced age, systemic illness, malnutrition, rapid temperature changes, and the use of alcohol and other sedative drugs. High wind velocity (wind-chill factor) and moisture markedly increase the propensity for cold injury at low temperatures.