Jim Peters' collapse in the 1954 Vancouver Empire Games marathon

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 596-600

  Noakes, Tim ^a   Mekler, Jackie ^c   Pedoe, Dan Tunstall ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b London Marathon   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CANADA; CASE REPORT; COLLAPSE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; COOLING; DEHYDRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FATIGUE; HEAT STROKE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERNATREMIA; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MALE; MARATHON RUNNER; MEDICAL RECORD; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; RUNNING; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEVER; HISTORY; HYPOTENSION; SOUTH AFRICA;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; DEHYDRATION; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEVER; HEAT STROKE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; HYPERNATREMIA; HYPOTENSION; RUNNING; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 55949137760     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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