Heat stroke

Heat stroke, the most severe form of heat illness, occurs when the body's heat-regulating system is overwhelmed by excessive heat. It is a life-threatening emergency and requires immediate medical attention.
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Heat stroke is the most serious heat-related illness. It occurs when the body can't control its own temperature. During a heat stroke the body's temperature rises rapidly, the sweating mechanism fails, and the body cannot cool down.
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heat stroke
A serious failure of the body's heat-regulating mechanism resulting from excessive exposure to intense heat. Also called sunstroke.
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Heat strokeA serious condition that results from exposure to extreme heat. The body loses its ability to cool itself. Severe headache, high fever, and hot, dry skin may result. In severe cases, a person with heat stroke may collapse or go into a coma.
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HEAT STROKE"1 (Sunstroke)
SYMPTOMS"The body temperature goes very high (105o F. or more!), sweating is reduced, there is a strong headache, accompanied by tingling, numbness, confusion of mind and delirium.
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Heat stroke
A severe condition caused by prolonged exposure to high heat. Heat stroke interferes with the body's temperature regulating abilities and can lead to collapse and coma.
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Heat Stroke (Heat Emergencies)
Heat Emergencies
Heimlich Maneuver for Choking in the Conscious Adult (Choking in the Conscious Adult)
Heimlich Maneuver for the Conscious Child (Choking in the Conscious Child) ...
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If you think someone has heat stroke, call emergency medical services immediately. While waiting for the ambulance to arrive, move the victim into the shade.
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While golfing, be alert for dehydration, heat exhaustion or heat stroke. And of course, be ready to call it quits when the skies look threatening. Lightning kills golfers every year.
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This condition is not the same as hyperthermia due to medical emergencies such as heat stroke.
Alternative Names:
Hyperthermia - malignant; Hyperpyrexia - malignant
Causes, incidence, and risk factors: ...
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Wilderness: Heat Cramps, Heat Exhaustion, or Heat Stroke
Wilderness: Hyperventilation
Wilderness: Hypothermia ...
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Environmental (such as heat stroke, heavy metal poisoning, hypothermia, or methanol intoxication) ...
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Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) can be caused by severe bacterial infections (sepsis), extensive burns, trauma, retained dead fetus, heat stroke, mismatched blood transfusion, metastatic cancer, and some forms of leukemia.
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Often, people with heatstroke cannot think clearly and might be confused. Parts of the brain that control temperature may be 'knocked out' and sufferers may actually think they are cold, further fuelling the heat stroke.3, 4 ...
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