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Heat-wave and sports heat counselling — communication OSCE
OSCE on heat-stroke recognition teaching, cool-first principles, sports acclimatisation and equity-aware heat-wave plans.
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Target exams
MRCPCH ClinicalRACP DCE
Prompt
Parent of a 14-year-old footballer after a teammate collapsed in humid training; family also asks about heat-wave safety for a toddler sibling in a flat without air-conditioning.
Objectives
- Explain heat stroke versus heat exhaustion in plain language. [6]
- Teach cool-first field action including cold-water immersion when available. [7]
- Deliver sports acclimatisation and hydration guidance. [5]
- Build a toddler heat-wave home plan including never-leave-in-car. [5]
- Address housing/cooling inequity without shaming. [12] [3]
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- [3]Ahdoot S Climate Change and Children's Health: Building a Healthy Future for Every Child Pediatrics, 2024.PMID 38374808
- [5]Bergeron MF, Devore C, Rice SG Policy statement—Climatic heat stress and exercising children and adolescents Pediatrics, 2011.PMID 21824876
- [6]Bouchama A Heat stroke N Engl J Med, 2002.PMID 12075060
- [7]Miller KC Roundtable on Preseason Heat Safety in Secondary School Athletics: Prehospital Care of Patients With Exertional Heat Stroke J Athl Train, 2021.PMID 33290540
- [12]Budolfson KC Climate Change and Child Health Equity Pediatr Clin North Am, 2023.PMID 37422317