Hypothermia Publications

• Wilderness & Environmental Medicine — Severe Accidental Hypothermia Case (Hawley et al., 2024)
• Tintinalli — Hypothermia (Brown, 2018)
• ICE Score Prediction — Resuscitation (2018)
• BC Hypothermia Clinical Practice Guideline (Brown et al., 2016)
• Scandinavian Journal of Trauma — Accidental Hypothermia: an ICAR update (Paal et al., 2016)
• NEJM — Accidental Hypothermia Review (Brown et al., 2012)
• Appendix — NEJM Accidental Hypothermia (Brown et al., 2012)

Hypothermia Letters and Editorials

• Wilderness & Environmental Medicine — Hypothermia evidence, afterdrop, and practical experience (Brown et al., 2015)
• Resuscitation — Cardiac arrest from accidental hypothermia: a rare condition with potentially excellent neurological outcome (Paal & Brown, 2014)
• Injury Journal — In hypothermic major trauma patients the appropriate hospital for damage control and rewarming may be life-saving (Paal et al., 2013)
• Journal of Pediatric Surgery — Hypothermic cardiac arrest: Is a serum potassium of 6 mEq/L a satisfactory cutoff for extracorporeal rewarming? (Paal et al., 2013)

Other Publications

• Traffic Injury Prevention — Risk factors for subsequent impaired driving by injured passengers (Purssell et al., 2014)
• Traffic Injury Prevention — Police documentation of alcohol involvement in hospitalized injured drivers (Brubacher et al., 2013)
• High Altitude Medicine & Biology — Termination of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in mountain rescue (Paal et al., 2012)
• Traffic Injury Prevention — Proportion of injured drivers presenting to a tertiary care ED who engage in future impaired driving activities (Purssell et al., 2010)

Podium Presentations

Complex Resuscitation in Austere Environments

• 2025 Keynote, St. Paul’s Hospital Emergency Medicine Update, Whistler, BC.
• 2025 Fraser Health Trauma & Resuscitation Symposium, New Westminster, BC.
• 2025 Keynote, Whistler Blackcomb Patrol Physicians Congress, Whistler, BC.
• 2024 Canadian Association of Wilderness Medicine Conference, Halifax, NS.

Medical Equipment in Mountain Rescue

• 2025 Canadian Association of Wilderness Medicine Conference, Canmore, AB.

Backcountry Procedural Sedation

• 2024 Canadian Diploma in Mountain Medicine, Whistler, BC.
• 2023 Canadian Association of Wilderness Medicine Conference, Penticton, BC.

Accidental Hypothermia — Building the Chain of Survival

• 2025 BC SAR Support Network — Webinar.
• 2017–2025 Canadian Diploma in Mountain Medicine, BC.
• 2024 Interior Health — Grand Rounds (virtual).
• 2022–2024 UBC Department of Critical Care — Fellow Rounds, Vancouver, BC.
• 2024 UBC Rural Rounds CPD (virtual).
• 2021 UBC Department of Emergency Medicine — Grand Rounds, Vancouver, BC.
• 2019 BC Emergency Health Services — EPOS Conference, Vancouver, BC.
• 2019 UBC Anesthesiology Summit, Whistler, BC.
• 2016 UBC 5-in-5 Emergency Medicine Conference, Victoria, BC.
• 2015 Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians — National Conference, Edmonton, AB.
• 2015 Canadian Forces SAR, Comox, BC.
• 2015 UBC Critical Care Conference, Whistler, BC.
• 2014 World Congress on High Altitude Medicine & Mountain Emergency Medicine, Bolzano, Italy.

Accidental Hypothermia — Management and Transport

• 2013 UBC ICU Grand Rounds, Vancouver, BC.
• 2013 UBC ED Grand Rounds, Vancouver, BC.
• 2012 Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians — National Conference, Vancouver, BC.
• 2012 International Commission for Alpine Rescue — General Assembly, Poland.
• 2012 Emergency Medicine Research Day, Vancouver, BC.
• 2012 St. Paul’s Emergency Medicine Update, Whistler, BC.
• 2011 Pediatric ICU Fellows, Vancouver, BC.

Selected Talks

• Extreme Hypothermia: Challenges in treating an intoxicated kayaker in deep hypothermia — 2024 Canadian Association of Wilderness Medicine, Halifax, NS.
• Accidental Hypothermia — A Case for Change — Herb Parkin Day, Royal Columbian Hospital, 2022, New Westminster, BC.
• Predicting Survival in Hypothermic Cardiac Arrest — 2019 Royal Columbian Hospital Grand Rounds, New Westminster, BC.
• Hypothermia Workshop — 2014 International Commission for Alpine Rescue Conference, Lake Tahoe, Nevada.
• Future impaired driving activities of injured motor vehicle drivers requiring a hospital visit — 2007 International Council on Alcohol, Drugs, and Traffic Safety (ICADTS) Conference, Seattle, WA, USA.