A nineteen-year-old recruit at forty-one point two. An eighty-four-year-old in a top-floor flat at forty-one point eight, skin dry. Two patients, one reflex saves both: cool now. This Atlas edition walks the whole emergency: hyperthermia versus fever, the classic-versus-exertional fork, the two-hit cascade that mimics sepsis, the golden half-hour of cooling (cold-water immersion for the athlete — the Falmouth four-hundred-and-fifty-four with one hundred per cent survival — mist and fans for the elder), stop at thirty-nine, the labs that declare themselves (CK, DIC, potassium), the mental-stat…
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