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  A promising new treatment developed in Yukon for frostbite is reducing amputations among the most severe cases. Dr. Alex Poole, a surgeon at the Whitehorse General Hospital and one of the pioneers of the treatment, spoke to CTV’s Your Morning on Wednesday about how it works. “Initially, we wanted to improve frostbite care in the Yukon and after we had done that, there was an appetite across the country,” said Poole. The key to the treatment’s success is Iloprost, a drug that helps increase blood flow. “Essentially, what we do is that we’ve gathered all the best evidence we could find for treatments for frostbite, put them into one protocol, and the thing that we’ve changed the most is that we use a drug called Iloprost, which is a vasodilator.” Poole explained. “It opens up blood vessels in areas where, because of the frostbite injury, have lost their blood supply and that’s what we think is helping prevent amputations,”

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