This publication is a multisociety consensus document focused on the management of patients with accidental hypothermia. It was produced collaboratively by the Spanish Society of Anesthesiology, Resuscitation and Pain Management (SEDAR), the Spanish Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Critical Care and Coronary Units (SEMICYUC), and the Spanish Society of Emergency Medicine (SEMES). The article appears in Emergencias (2026 Aug;38[4]:285–298) and is presented as a Practice Guideline available in both Spanish and English.
The PubMed record identifies the work as intended to guide clinical care across the continuum where accidental hypothermia is encountered — including prehospital rescue, emergency departments, anesthesiology services and intensive care units. The specific clinical recommendations, algorithms, or procedural details are not included in the PubMed abstract record and therefore are not restated here.
The guideline lists multiple authors with varied clinical and academic affiliations across Spain and Andorra. The lead author is Robert Blasco Mariño; other named contributors include specialists in intensive care, anesthesiology, emergency medicine, mountain medicine, ECMO programs, rescue teams and critical care ultrasound.
Affiliated institutions reported in the PubMed entry include Hospital Universitario Vall d'Hebron, Hospital Universitario la Fe, Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, regional emergency services (for example, Servei d'Emergències Sanitàries Comunitat Valenciana and Servicio de Emergencias del País Vasco), university departments, and national rescue and ECMO groups. Several authors are identified as coordinators or members of working groups specifically dedicated to accidental hypothermia, ECMO support and mountain rescue.
This guideline is cataloged as a Practice Guideline in the journal Emergencias with the following bibliographic identifiers given in the PubMed record:
The PubMed entry records the article language as Spanish and English and provides the author list and affiliations but does not reproduce the guideline text in the abstract field.
Based on the contributing organizations and author expertise, the intended audience comprises clinicians involved in the care of patients with accidental hypothermia, including:
The guideline likely addresses clinical contexts from scene management and evacuation to in-hospital resuscitation and advanced rewarming, but the PubMed summary does not provide the specific scope items or protocols.
The PubMed entry classifies the work as a Practice Guideline and a Consensus document. The author list indicates cross-society collaboration among SEDAR, SEMICYUC and SEMES and representation from mountain medicine, ECMO programs and rescue services.
However, the PubMed abstract does not include methodological details such as:
Because these methodological elements are not reported in the PubMed record, they cannot be summarized here and must be consulted in the full publication for confirmation.
While the PubMed entry does not list the guideline’s section headings or specific recommendations, the author affiliations and working-group descriptions allow inference of the domains the guideline likely addresses:
These inferred topic areas reflect the composition of the author group but are not replacements for the actual guideline content. The PubMed record does not provide the guideline’s clinical algorithms, indications for specific interventions, or outcome data.
The PubMed entry is bibliographic and authorial in nature and does not reproduce the guideline text or the clinical recommendations. Specific limitations of the source record include absence of:
Where the PubMed abstract lacks these items, this summary explicitly does not invent or infer specific recommendations; clinicians should consult the full-text article for actionable guidance.
Clinicians or institutions seeking to apply the guidance should obtain the full text of the article in Emergencias (2026 Aug;38[4]:285–298) via the journal, institutional access, or the DOI link (10.55633/s3me/070.2026). The PubMed record provides author and affiliation details, the PMID (42522393) and DOI (10.55633/s3me/070.2026) to facilitate access.
Review of the complete document is required to determine the guideline’s recommended diagnostic criteria, rewarming strategies, thresholds for extracorporeal support, and specific operational recommendations for prehospital and in-hospital teams.
This multisociety consensus represents a coordinated Spanish effort to standardize care for accidental hypothermia across emergency, anesthesiology and intensive care disciplines. The PubMed entry documents authorship, affiliations and bibliographic metadata; it does not provide the guideline’s clinical content or methodological detail, which must be consulted directly in the published article.