%0 Journal Article
%T Summer heat illnesses. Conditions that range from mild to fatal
%J Postgraduate medicine
%D 1990
%A Sterner, S.
%V 87
%N 8
%P 67-70, 73
%X Heat illness varies in severity from mild to life-threatening. Basic treatment includes rapid cooling and restoration of fluid and electrolyte balance. Most patients can be treated definitively in the field. Some require additional therapy in a hospital emergency department, and a few need hospitalization. Not all hyperthermic patients have heatstroke. Neuroleptic malignant syndrome is a possibility, or a patient with a febrile illness may also present on a hot day. Careful evaluation is therefore necessary before the diagnosis of simple heatstroke is considered acceptable.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I Vendome Group
%@ 0032-5481
%U http://dx.doi.org/