Heat emergencies
Definition
Heat emergencies fall into three categories of increasing severity: heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heatstroke.
Heat Emergencies
Overview, Causes, & Risk Factors
Symptoms & Signs
Diagnosis & Tests
Prevention & Expectations
Treatment & Monitoring
Attribution ...
Heat emergencies
Reviewed last on: 6/9/2008
John E. Duldner, Jr., MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Director of Research, ...
Heat emergencies fall into three categories of increasing severity: heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heatstroke.
Overview & Considerations
Heat illnesses are easily preventable by taking precautions in hot weather.
Heat emergencies are generally caused by:
exercising for long periods of time or in very hot or hot and humid weather
wearing heavy clothes or many layers of clothing in hot weather ...
The most common causes of heat emergencies are Dehydration, Prolonged or excessive exercise, Medications, such as diuretics, neuroleptics, phenothiazines, and anticholinergics, Cardiovascular disease, High temperatures or humidity, ...
Heat emergencies
Heatstroke
Heimlich maneuver
Heimlich maneuver - adult or child over 1 year
Heimlich maneuver - unconscious adult or child over 1 year
Hematoma
Honey bee or hornet sting
How to make a sling
How to make a splint
Human bites ...
If you notice signs of heat emergencies early, you can take action to lower your body temperature and prevent your condition from elevating to heatstroke. In a heat emergency, you can take these steps for yourself and for others: ...
The outcome of the disease leaves the body malnourished, bulky and fouls smelling stools, vitamin insufficiency, gas, painful or swollen abdomen, infertility, susceptible to heat emergencies, and respiratory failure.
 See also: Emergencies, Symptom, Fever, Emergency, Injury
  
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