Heat-related illness

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1097-1108

  Atha, Walter F ^a  

^a Howard County General Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental heat emergency; Heat emergency; Heat stroke; Hyperthermia

Indexed keywords

CARDIOMYOPATHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPRESSION STOCKING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FLUID THERAPY; HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION; HEAT CRAMP; HEAT EXHAUSTION; HEAT INJURY; HEAT STRESS; HEAT STROKE; HEAT SYNCOPE; HEAT TRANSFER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; HYDROTHERAPY; LIVER CELL DAMAGE; MILIARIA RUBRA; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; THERMAL EDEMA; THERMAL EXPOSURE; THERMOREGULATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL HEAT EMERGENCY; HEAT EMERGENCY; HEAT STROKE; HYPERTHERMIA;

CRYOTHERAPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS;

EID: 84886596775     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2013.07.012     Document Type: Review

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