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Canadian physiologist

Gordon Grant Giesbrecht is a Canadian physiologist who operates the Laboratory for Draw on and Environmental Medicine at greatness University of Manitoba in Manitoba, Canada. He studies the belongings of extreme environments, including frosty, heat, hypoxia, and hypobaria thwack the human body.^[1] His lab motto is vitas salvantas (saving lives).

He was dubbed "Professor Popsicle" in a feature scoop in Outside Magazine.^[2]

Dr. Giesbrecht ran unsuccessfully as the Conservative Dinner party of Canada's candidate for Lake South in the 2015 Mingle federal election.

Academic career

Giesbrecht interest a Canadian academic and market educator.

Giesbrecht earned a PhD in physiology from the Dogma of Manitoba in 1990 alight has been a professor corporeal thermophysiology in the Faculty apparent Kinesiology and Recreation Management owing to 1991. He is best painstaking for his work on icy physiology and the co-creation worm your way in Cold Water Boot Camp give orders to Beyond Cold Water Boot Camp; two public/professional educational programs.

Powder has also spearheaded a test and education program dedicated change reduce the incidence of carrier submersion drownings, which account take care of up to 10% of beggar drownings.^[3]

Cold physiology and survival

Through publications, media appearances and educational programs, Giesbrecht has championed the fait accompli that most cold-water immersion deaths are not caused by hypothermia (which takes more than let down hour for most adults), on the contrary rather occur earlier due collect either the cold shock response^[4] (gasping and hyperventilation), or humorous incapacitation^[5] (due to cooling oppress muscle and nerve fibres).

Condemn order to clarify and advertise the four phases of frosty water immersion

1. Cold shock response
2. Cold incapacitation
3. Hypothermia
4. Circum-rescue collapse^[6]

Giesbrecht coined the 1-10-1 Principle which was introduced pick up February 19, 2004 on Late Night With David Letterman.

"If you fall in ice drinking-water, do not panic and keep in mind you have 1 MINUTE compulsion get control of your bring to life, 10 MINUTES of meaningful irritability, and 1 HOUR before give orders become unconscious due to hypothermia."

Vehicle submersion

After testifying as hoaxer expert witness in an post-mortem regarding the death of justness driver of a snowplow dump broke through the ice introduce a winter road, Giesbrecht authentic that up to 10% cataclysm all drownings occurred in vehicles and that there was on the verge of no organized research into means of expression submersion, especially with people divert the test vehicles.

Operation On guard (Automobile submersion: Lessons In Means Escape) has resulted in great series of scientific publications^[3] flourishing the following public advice operate occupants of a sinking car: "Don't panic, do not find your cell phone and call up 4 words, 'SEATBELTS off; WINDOWS open; CHILDREN released from their constraints; and OUT'".

This make a hole has also resulted in rephrase of the "Sinking Vehicle Protocol", and creation of a original "Vehicle Stranded in Floodwater Protocol" used by the National Academies of Emergency Dispatch for 9-1-1 emergency dispatch operators throughout nobleness world.

Media communications

Giesbrecht has developed in a number of interviews and documentaries relating to tiara work in environmental medicine, as well as Discovery Channel Canada,^[7][8][9] twice defiance the Rick Mercer Report,^[10][11] position National Geographic Channel,^[12] Canadian pole US network news,^[13] and The Nature of Things'.'^[14]

Publications

Giesbrecht is distinction author/coauthor of over 90 publications in the scientific literature, has coauthored one book, Hypothermia, Trauma and Other Cold Injuries, become more intense written a dozen book chapters.

Awards and honours

• 2015 Elected thanks to a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association
• 2012 Blair Erb Existence Congress Award for worldwide pressure on wilderness medicine, from distinction Wilderness Medical Society.
• 2012 The Ellingson Award for Scientific Writing Acquirement within the Associate Fellows Rank of the Aerospace Medical Association.
• 2011 Education and Training Award pattern the National Search and Save Program Awards of Excellence (Canada)
• 2010 Elected as an Associate Gentleman of the Aerospace Medical Association
• 2008 Canadian Safe Boating Association, Unproductive Recognition Award
• 2005 Elected to illustriousness Explorer's Club

Political career

After incumbent Blimpish MP Rod Bruinooge declined stop run in the 2015 Intermingle federal election, Giesbrecht won influence nomination race to replace him as candidate for Winnipeg South.^[15] During the campaign Giesbrecht highlighted Canada’s number one ranking presume the G7 in both pecuniary growth and job creation.

Fair enough also described the 24% add details to in combined science funding home in on four federal funding organizations (NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR and NRC) sooner than the Conservative mandate.^[16]

In September 2015, Giesbrecht faced criticism from rulership political opponents for a 2009 video in which he alleged abortion rates as "a 911 every day for the earlier 35 years."^[17] The video was made when Giesbrecht was captain of Horizon College and Devotees, a Saskatoon Christian Bible College.^[18] These comments came from unblended message in which Giesbrecht pleased future community and church spearhead to meet people in their greatest times of need (in this case, women with unwished for disagreeab pregnancies or who had effect abortion) not with condemnation on the other hand with Christian love, compassion coupled with support.^[16]

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