Filtered By:
Specialty: International Medicine & Public Health
Source: SafetyLit
Condition: Heatstroke
This page shows you your search results in order of date. This is page number 5.
Order by Relevance | Date
Total 103 results found since Jan 2013.
Update: Heat illness, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2016 -
In 2016, there were 2,536 incident diagnoses of heat illness among active component service members (incidence rate: 1.96 cases per 1,000 person-years [p-yrs]). The overall crude incidence rates of heat stroke and "other heat illness" were 0.31 and 1.65 pe...
Source: SafetyLit - April 1, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Environmental Issues, Climate, Geophysics Source Type: news
American football and fatal exertional heat stroke: a case study of Korey Stringer - Grundstein A, Knox JA, Vanos J, Cooper ER, Casa DJ.
On August 1, 2001, Korey Stringer, a Pro Bowl offensive tackle for the Minnesota Vikings, became the first and to date the only professional American football player to die from exertional heat stroke (EHS). The death helped raise awareness of the dangers ...
Source: SafetyLit - March 23, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Environmental Issues, Climate, Geophysics Source Type: news
Heat acclimation regulates the autophagy-lysosome function to protect against heat stroke-induced brain injury in mice - Yi J, He G, Yang J, Luo Z, Yang X, Luo X.
BACKGROUND/AIMS: The mechanisms underlying the protective role of heat acclimation (HA) in heat stroke (HS)-induced brain injury are still unclear. The autophagy-lysosome pathway is known to pay an important role in protecting stressed or diseased cells fr...
Source: SafetyLit - February 23, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Environmental Issues, Climate, Geophysics Source Type: news
Simple and effective method to lower body core temperatures of hyperthermic patients - O'Connor JP.
Hyperthermia is a potentially life threatening scenario that may occur in patients due to accompanying morbidities, exertion, or exposure to dry and arid environmental conditions. In particular, heat stroke may result from environmental exposure combined w...
Source: SafetyLit - February 16, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Neurologic complications of acute environmental injuries - da Silva IR, Frontera JA.
Environmental injuries can result in serious neurologic morbidity. This chapter reviews neurologic complications of thermal burns, smoke inhalation, lightning strikes, electric injury, near drowning, decompression illness, as well as heat stroke and accide...
Source: SafetyLit - February 16, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Burns, Electricity, Explosions, Fire, Scalds Source Type: news
Bowel ischemia from heat stroke: a rare presentation of an uncommon complication - Masood U, Sharma A, Syed W, Manocha D.
A healthy 27-year-old female presented to the hospital after she collapsed an hour into her first marathon run on a hot humid day. On presentation, she was hyperthermic, encephalopathic, tachycardic, and hypotensive. On admission, she was found to have lac...
Source: SafetyLit - November 16, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Exertional heat stroke: about 4 cases - Khoufi MT, Mrabet A, Ben Mansour A, Lamine K, Ferjani M, Yedeas M.
In this study, we investigated four cases of exertio...
Source: SafetyLit - October 7, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Environmental Issues, Climate, Geophysics Source Type: news
Heat stroke admissions during heat waves in 1,916 US counties for the period from 1999 to 2010 and their effect modifiers - Wang Y, Bobb JF, Papi B, Wang Y, Kosheleva A, Di Q, Schwartz JD, Dominici F.
BACKGROUND: Heat stroke is a serious heat-related illness, especially among older adults. However, little is known regarding the spatiotemporal variation of heat stroke admissions during heat waves and what factors modify the adverse effects. METH...
Source: SafetyLit - August 12, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Environmental Issues, Climate, Geophysics Source Type: news
Fatal heat stroke in children found in parked cars: autopsy findings - Adato B, Dubnov-Raz G, Gips H, Heled Y, Epstein Y.
A common and unfortunate cause for heat stroke-related deaths in children is entrapment in closed vehicles. The aim of this study was to analyze the pathological consequences of such grave events. Autopsy reports of all children that were brought to a nati...
Source: SafetyLit - July 23, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news
Exertional heat stroke and acute liver failure: a late dysfunction - Carvalho AS, Rodeia SC, Silvestre J, Póvoa P.
Heat stroke (HS) is defined as a severe elevation of core body temperature along with central nervous system dysfunction. Exertional heat stroke (EHS) with acute liver failure (ALF) is a rare condition. The authors report the case of a 25-year-old man with...
Source: SafetyLit - April 15, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Challenging return to play decisions: heat stroke, exertional rhabdomyolysis, and exertional collapse associated with sickle cell trait - Asplund CA, O'Connor FG.
CONTEXT: Sports medicine providers frequently return athletes to play after sports-related injuries and conditions. Many of these conditions have guidelines or medical evidence to guide the decision-making process. Occasionally, however, sports medicine pr...
Source: SafetyLit - March 3, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
'Too much of a coincidence': identical twins with exertional heatstroke in the same race - Smith R, Jones N, Martin D, Kipps C.
This report discusses a unique case of monozygotic male twins who both collapsed with exertional heat stroke (EHS) during the same marathon in relatively cool conditions. The twins were official race pacers in a popular city marathon held in the early spri...
Source: SafetyLit - February 21, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Environmental Issues, Climate, Geophysics Source Type: news
Street orientation and side of the street greatly influence the microclimatic benefits street trees can provide in summer - Sanusi R, Johnstone D, May P, Livesley SJ.
Maintaining human thermal comfort (HTC) is essential for pedestrians because people outside can be more susceptible to heat stress and heat stroke. Modification of street microclimates using tree canopy cover can provide important benefits to pedestrians, ...
Source: SafetyLit - February 19, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Environmental Issues, Climate, Geophysics Source Type: news
Recurrent heat stroke in a runner: race simulation testing for return-to-activity - Roberts WO, Dorman JC, Bergeron MF.
Exertional heat stroke (EHS) occurs in distance runners and is a life-threatening condition. A 30-year-old healthy recreational male distance runner (CR) collapsed at the 12-mile mark in two half marathon races six weeks apart in fall 2009. In both episode...
Source: SafetyLit - January 11, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Environmental Issues, Climate, Geophysics Source Type: news
Exertional heat stroke and susceptibility to malignant hyperthermia in an athlete: evidence for a link? - Poussel M, Guerci P, Kaminsky P, Heymonet M, Roux-Buisson N, Faure J, Fronzaroli E, Chenuel B.
OBJECTIVE: To describe the possible association (pathophysiologic and clinical features) between exertional heat stroke (EHS) and malignant hyperthermia (MH). BACKGROUND: Both EHS and MH are acute and life-threatening disorders. It has repeat...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 21, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Environmental Issues, Climate, Geophysics Source Type: news
