Hypothermia Cases
Freedom of Information Request
- Reference
- 1777/22
- Request Date
- 14 Dec 2022
- Response Date
- 04 Jan 2023
- Information Requested
I would like to know if any patients have been taken to hospital suffering from hypothermia in December.
Either a primary cause of illness or secondary.
Can I get a breakdown of numbers and what health board area please.
- Response
Please see table below showing number of incidents for any temperature recorded < 35 which is the NHS definition of hypothermia or a temperature recorded as ‘LO’. We have also provided the number of these that have a diagnostic code of 20 Heat/Cold Exposure.
For the given data, you will see that some of the figures are shown as, five or less than five, please note that this figure has been suppressed because the statistical value is less than five. The Scottish Ambulance service has a duty, under the Data Protection Act to avoid directly or indirectly revealing any personal details. It is therefore widely understood that provision of statistics on small numbers, five or less are statistically suppressed upon disclosure.
01 Dec 2022 - 18 Dec 2022
Health Board
Number of Incidents Temp < 35 Or LO
Number of Incidents with Diagnostic Code = Heat/Cold Exposure
Ayrshire and Arran
74
<5
Borders
14
0
Dumfries and Galloway
28
<5
Fife
51
<5
Forth Valley
39
<5
Grampian
80
<5
Greater Glasgow and Clyde
170
<5
Highland
64
0
Lanarkshire
76
<5
Lothian
121
<5
Orkney
<5
<5
Shetland
<5
0
Tayside
66
<5
Western Isles
7
<5
Unknown/Other
<5
0
Sum:
799
25
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