Lost snowshoer burned cash, socks to survive

SEATTLE?? The survival of a 66-year-old snowshoer who spent two nights on Mount Rainier was being called a miracle, even as National Park Service staff waited out bad weather to see if four overdue hikers are OK.

Yong Chun Kim said he survived by using fire starters to burn leaves and eventually $1 and $5 bills in his wallet as well as socks, KOMO TV of Seattle reported.

Kim was rescued after searchers traversed deep snow at 6,300 feet and snowshoed up a river valley to pull him from the icy remote backcountry.

The team reached Kim on Monday afternoon but it wasn't until 11 p.m. local time that he was brought from the rugged terrain covered in deep snow to a road, Mount Rainier National Park spokeswoman Lee Taylor said late Monday.

She told the News Tribune newspaper of Tacoma, Wash., that he did not need to go to a hospital and instead was going home. Kim "seems to be in good shape and we're just thrilled to have been able to bring this search to such a successful conclusion," Taylor said.

Taylor said the experienced snowshoer from Tacoma was alert, conscious and stable when he was found by three searchers.

He was reported missing on Saturday after he fell down a slope and became separated from a group he was leading in the Paradise area, a popular high-elevation destination on the mountain's southwest flank, about a 100-mile drive south from Seattle.

Kim, who has been snowshoeing for a decade, was well equipped for a day trip but didn't have overnight gear and the weather was not helpful.

"The weather was wintry, with fresh snow each day, low temperatures in the teens, and high winds," the park service said.

Because Kim was the leader of his group, other snowshoers weren't able to accurately describe where he had slipped, Taylor said. Searchers had initially believed Kim fell in a different area, based on descriptions from the group, Taylor said.

Taylor said he was in a remote area with deep snow. Mount Rainier has seen temperatures in the teens, and eight inches of new snow fell in some places since Saturday. Wind-blown snow drifts were as high as 30 inches in some areas.

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Bad weather prevented a helicopter rescue, so crews used a Sno-Cat snow vehicle to reach the area where Kim was. Then "searchers had to snowshoe up the river valley to reach him, load him into a kind of a litter that could be slid across the snow, sort of a sled, bring him back down and get him back into the Sno-Cat and bring the Sno-Cat back out to the road," Taylor said.

Kim's son, Malcom An, thanked authorities and the rescuers in a statement released through the National Park Service.

"It?s a miracle that he is alive," he said, "but it?s an assisted miracle. I want to thank all the volunteers and the National Park Service staff who worked so hard to find my father."

With a new storm moving into the Seattle area Tuesday night , Mount Rainier staff said Tuesday that two climbers are one day overdue and two campers are two days overdue.

The campers were on the Muir snowfield, where it's been below zero in recent days with winds up to 90 mph, the News Tribune reported.

The climbers were also on the mountain but their route was not immediately known.

The couple, Mark Bucich of San Diego, Calif., and Michelle Trojanowski of Atlanta, Ga., had planned to summit the 14,411-foot mountain and then return Sunday afternoon. They are said to be skilled climbers with enough camping gear to stay out several nights, KOMO TV reported.

In a separate incident, a backcountry skier at Crystal Mountain, right across from Mount Rainier, was lucky to be alive after getting lost Friday. A search team found him that night suffering from hypothermia and pulled him out at 6 a.m. Saturday.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46010767/ns/us_news-life/

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Pediatricians Split on Heart Tests Before Kids' ADHD Meds (HealthDay)

MONDAY, Jan. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Some pediatricians continue to do electrocardiograms (EKGs) on children before starting them on medication for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, new research suggests, even though many experts say the latest evidence shows it isn't really necessary.

Several years ago, reports of sudden death, heart attack and stroke among children and adults taking stimulants to treat ADHD caused alarm among parents and health care providers about the safety of the medications.

The reports prompted Canadian health authorities to briefly pull Adderall from the market in 2005, while the U.S. Food and Drug Administration now requires that ADHD drugs carry a "black box" label warning about potential heart risks.

Further research suggested that the risk may only be to children who had underlying heart defects, such as some congenital abnormalities and arrhythmias. On Adderall, for example, the warnings now read: "Sudden death has been reported in association with CNS [central nervous system] stimulant treatment at usual doses in children and adolescents with structural cardiac abnormalities or other serious heart problems."

A few years ago, the American Heart Association stated that it would be "reasonable" to give kids EKGs, which look for abnormalities in the heart's electrical activity, before starting them on stimulant medication.

But in 2008, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued a policy statement saying that routine EKGs prior to starting kids on ADHD medications wasn't necessary.

"A lot of pediatricians started doing EKGs, and then when the AAP said it didn't agree with that, pediatricians scaled back," explained Dr. Andrew Adesman, chief of developmental and behavioral pediatrics at Steven & Alexandra Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York.

And two major recent studies have found no hearts risk associated with ADHD medications. In a study published last November in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers concluded that medications such as Ritalin, Adderall and Concerta don't raise the risk of sudden death, heart attack or stroke in children and young adults.

In the study, researchers from Vanderbilt University and colleagues analyzed data on 1.2 million children and young adults aged 2 to 24 enrolled in four large health plans around the United States.

And a study published last December in the Journal of the American Medical Association analyzed data on more than 150,000 young and middle-aged adults taking one of several ADHD drugs and found no added risk of heart attack, sudden cardiac death or stroke, even among people with a family history of heart disease.

"The recent data suggests there is no increase in sudden cardiac death or any need for cardiac monitoring, provided there is no history of heart disease in the patient and no family history of heart disease," said Dr. Victor Fornari, a professor of psychiatry at Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, in New York.

The current research, published in the February issue of Pediatrics, surveyed 525 U.S. pediatricians about their ADHD prescribing practices.

The vast majority of physicians said they did a routine medical history and physical before putting kids on stimulants to treat ADHD.

Less than half (48 percent) did a more in-depth cardiac history and physical, which is recommended by the AAP.

About 15 percent also ordered an EKG to look for abnormal heart rhythms. The most common reason for continuing to do EKGs was that it was the "prevailing practice" where they worked.

"Pediatricians have a very variable attitude toward the safety and efficacy of these medications," Fornari said. "Even though there is no evidence base to suggest continued cardiac screening, there persists this lingering attitude among physicians that 'I'm not comfortable unless I do it'."

And even many children with underlying heart issues are safely taking ADHD medications, Adesman said.

"Most children with underlying heart problems are likely still eligible to be treated with stimulants once the family, the pediatrician and a consulting pediatric cardiologist agree that it's justifiable and safe," Adesman said.

He added: "There are only a few very specific, relatively uncommon cardiac problems where one would be hesitant to use a stimulant."

The survey also found nearly half (46 percent) of pediatricians said they also discussed stimulant-related heart risks with parents. In most situations, making sure families are fully informed of any risks is good practice, Fornari said. But given how little evidence there is that ADHD medications pose heart risks to children, in this situation those conversations may be causing unnecessary worry and deterring some families from trying stimulants.

Almost 3 million children in the United States take prescription medications for ADHD each year. Children with the neurobehavioral disorder have excessive levels of activity, inattention and impulsiveness.

More information:

The U.S. National Institute of Mental Health has more on ADHD.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20120116/hl_hsn/pediatricianssplitonhearttestsbeforekidsadhdmeds

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