Predictors of Hospitalization in Male Marine Corps Recruits with Exertional Heat Illness

Military Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 169-175

  Hakre, Shilpa ^a   Gardner, John W ^a   Kark, John A ^a   Wenger, C Bruce ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; POTASSIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEAT STROKE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PREDICTION; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; RISK FACTOR; SAILOR; SCORING SYSTEM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1542723564     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.169.3.169     Document Type: Article

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