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Paeds Cases · preventive-and-community-paediatrics

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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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

  1. Explain heat stroke versus heat exhaustion in plain language. [6]
  2. Teach cool-first field action including cold-water immersion when available. [7]
  3. Deliver sports acclimatisation and hydration guidance. [5]
  4. Build a toddler heat-wave home plan including never-leave-in-car. [5]
  5. Address housing/cooling inequity without shaming. [12] [3]
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  1. [3]Ahdoot S Climate Change and Children's Health: Building a Healthy Future for Every Child Pediatrics, 2024.PMID 38374808
  2. [5]Bergeron MF, Devore C, Rice SG Policy statement—Climatic heat stress and exercising children and adolescents Pediatrics, 2011.PMID 21824876
  3. [6]Bouchama A Heat stroke N Engl J Med, 2002.PMID 12075060
  4. [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
  5. [12]Budolfson KC Climate Change and Child Health Equity Pediatr Clin North Am, 2023.PMID 37422317
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