ICU · Environmental emergencies

Heat Stroke & Heat Illness

Also known as Heat stroke · Heat exhaustion · Heat illness · Exertional heat stroke · Classic heat stroke · Hyperthermia · Rapid cooling

The heat stroke — the core temperature above 40 degrees C with the CNS dysfunction (the confusion, the seizure, the coma). The two types (the classic — the elderly, the drugs; the exertional — the young, the athletes). The thermoregulatory failure → the multi-organ (the CNS, the cardiac, the liver, the renal, the DIC). The RAPID cooling (the priority — the ice-water immersion the fastest; the evaporative the practical). The NOT the antipyretics (the central set-point normal). The benzodiazepine for the shivering. classic mortality high (the 58 per cent the 28-day in the largest the cohort).