COMLEX Osteopathic Medicine

Category - Thermoregulation

Hypothermia can occur in conditions such as:
  1. Cold weather
  2. Drowning
  3. Both A and B
  4. Neither A nor B
Explanation
Answer - C - Hypothermia can occur in cold weather and drowning. When in water, even with temperatures that appear warm, the surroundings are actually lower than the body’s temperature. When the body is drowning, it is not only unable to get oxygen through breathing, but its temperature is lowering due to heat loss to the surrounding colder water.
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