[Treatment of frostbites. Analysis of results in twenty patients with buflomedil chlorhydrate (author's transl)]. / Le traitement des gelures de montagne. Analyse des résultats obtenus sur vingt gelés par le chlorhydrate de buflomedil.

Twenty cases of mountain frostbites of various degrees are presented, showing that buflomedil hydrochloride allows an improvement of the usual treatment of frostbites. Two protocols were used: 1) in 8 patients, after the usual treatment (bath at 38 degrees C, dextran perfusion, heparintherapy, antibiotherapy), buflomedil hydrochlorhydrate was administered by perfusion of 8 vials/day, during 10 days; 2) in 12 patients, buflomedil was injected directly by intravenous route on their arrival in the Emergency room. When the injection is given early, a potentiation of the effects of the warm bath is observed, and in two cases, this therapy has perhaps allowed to avoid the amputation.