Exertional heat stroke in athletes and soldiers - van den Bersselaar LR, Bongers CCWG, Eijsvogels TMH, Hopman MTE, van Rijswick MH, Kruijt N, Peters V, Snoeck MMJ, Voermans NC.
Exertional heat stroke (EHS) is a medical emergency characterized by life-threatening hyperthermia and central nerve system dysfunction during or directly after exercise. Early recognition and aggressive cooling reduces morbidity and mortality of patients ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 14, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Environmental Issues, Climate, Geophysics Source Type: news
Exertional heat-stroke management practices and intentions among secondary school football athletic trainers - Nedimyer AK, Chandran A, Hirschhorn RM, Adams WA, Pryor RR, Casa DJ, Register-Mihalik JK, Kerr ZY.
CONTEXT: Athletic trainers (ATs) are educated and trained in appropriate exertional heat-stroke (EHS) management strategies, yet disparities may exist between intended and actual uses in clinical practice.
OBJECTIVE: To examine the intended and actual ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 25, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Establishment and effectiveness evaluation of a scoring system for exertional heat stroke by retrospective analysis - Yang MM, Wang L, Zhang Y, Yuan R, Zhao Y, Hu J, Zhou FH, Kang HJ.
BACKGROUND: Heat stroke (HS) is a serious, life-threatening disease. However, there is no scoring system for HS so far. This research is to establish a scoring system that can quantitatively assess the severity of exertional heat stroke (EHS).
METHODS:... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 31, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Best Ways to Beat the Heat
SATURDAY, Aug. 22, 2020 -- With the arrival of late summer, it ' s essential to know the signs of heat exhaustion and how to intervene before it escalates to a more severe condition like heat stroke, emergency medicine experts say.
Heat exhaustion... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - August 22, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Heat stroke on the hottest day of the year - Kidane AS, Peters R.
Heat stroke is the most extreme form of heat-related illness. An imbalance between excessive body heat production and inadequate compensatory mechanisms can lead to multi-organ failure and even death. There are two types of heat stroke: exertional heat str... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 14, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Environmental Issues, Climate, Geophysics Source Type: news
Dogs don't die just in hot cars-exertional heat-related illness (heatstroke) is a greater threat to UK dogs - Hall EJ, Carter AJ, O'Neill DG.
This study aimed to identify the key triggers of heat-related illness in dogs and investigate canine risk factor... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 13, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news
Exertional heat stroke in an amateur runner - challenges in diagnostics and the role of unhealthy competition - Marlega J, Mickiewicz A, Fijalkowska J, Gruchala M, Fijalkowski M.
Exertional heat stroke (EHS) is a potentially life-threatening condition with a variety of symptoms and abnormal laboratory findings. Nevertheless, data evaluating the course of making an EHS diagnosis in real-life practice, as well as the role of predispo... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 23, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Overlapping mechanisms of exertional heat stroke and malignant hyperthermia: evidence vs. conjecture - Laitano O, Murray KO, Leon LR.
Exertional heat stroke (EHS) and malignant hyperthermia (MH) are life-threatening conditions, triggered by different environmental stimuli that share several clinical symptoms and pathophysiological features. EHS manifests during physical activity normally... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 10, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Environmental Issues, Climate, Geophysics Source Type: news
Things I know to be true – We are all walking miracles
Back when I was child I genuinely believed that when my mother kissed my knee to make it better, she did actually do that. And as I grew older although that belief faded away in the light of the obvious ‘fact’ of the medical model, it never truly disappeared. Time and again I would reflect on what it meant to be healthy and when my own health challenges began in my mid-teens, some part of me always knew that my mother’s kiss held meaning.
I remember being 16 years old and just about to sit ‘O’ levels, as they were then. I had been having a period for what must have been weeks and I was tired a...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - June 25, 2020 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Health life miracle Source Type: news
Things I know to be true 1 – We are all walking miracles
Back when I was child I genuinely believed that when my mother kissed my knee to make it better, she did actually do that. And as I grew older although that belief faded away in the light of the obvious ‘fact’ of the medical model, it never truly disappeared. Time and again I would reflect on what it meant to be healthy and when my own health challenges began in my mid-teens, some part of me always knew that my mother’s kiss held meaning.
I remember being 16 years old and just about to sit ‘O’ levels, as they were then. I had been having a period for what must have been weeks and I was tired a...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - June 25, 2020 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Health life miracle Source Type: news
Things I know to be true – We are all walking miracles
Back when I was child I genuinely believed that when my mother kissed my knee to make it better, she did actually do that. And as I grew older although that belief faded away in the light of the obvious ‘fact’ of the medical model, it never truly disappeared. Time and again I would reflect on what it meant to be healthy and when my own health challenges began in my mid-teens, some part of me always knew that my mother’s kiss held meaning.
I remember being 16 years old and just about to sit ‘O’ levels, as they were then. I had been having a period for what must have been weeks and I was tired a...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - June 25, 2020 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Health 3 principles life miracle Source Type: news
Things I know to be true – We are all walking miracles
Back when I was child I genuinely believed that when my mother kissed my knee to make it better, she did actually do that. And as I grew older although that belief faded away in the light of the obvious ‘fact’ of the medical model, it never truly disappeared. Time and again I would reflect on what it meant to be healthy and when my own health challenges began in my mid-teens, some part of me always knew that my mother’s kiss held meaning.
I remember being 16 years old and just about to sit ‘O’ levels, as they were then. I had been having a period for what must have been weeks and I was tired a...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - June 25, 2020 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Health 3 principles life miracle Source Type: news
Things I know to be true – We are all walking miracles
Back when I was child I genuinely believed that when my mother kissed my knee to make it better, she did actually do that. And as I grew older although that belief faded away in the light of the obvious ‘fact’ of the medical model, it never truly disappeared. Time and again I would reflect on what it meant to be healthy and when my own health challenges began in my mid-teens, some part of me always knew that my mother’s kiss held meaning.
I remember being 16 years old and just about to sit ‘O’ levels, as they were then. I had been having a period for what must have been weeks and I was tired a...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - June 25, 2020 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Health 3 principles life miracle Source Type: news
Personal Protective Equipment and heat: risk of heat stress, PHE
CAS alert advises on risk of heat stress with PPE, which can cause heat exhaustion and lead to heat stroke. Measures to control the temperature of clinical environments and enable staff to make behavioural adaptations to stay cool and well hydrated should be made. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 25, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Heat stroke symptoms: The sign that appears after 30 minutes of resting in a cool area
HEAT stroke can cause irrevocable damage to your body so it is imperative to avoid prolonged exposure to direct sunlight. One warning sign you have heat stroke can be seen after 30 minutes of resting in a cool place. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - June 24, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news