TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Accidents during bathing
JO  - Nippon Rinsho
A1  - Hori, Shingo
A1  - Suzuki, Masaru
A1  - Ueno, Koichi
A1  - Sato, Yukio
A1  - Kurihara, Tomohiro
SP  - 1047
EP  - 1052
VL  - 71
IS  - 6
N2  - Sudden death during bathing accounts for 10 to 15% of all out-of hospital cardiac arrests in Japan. Surveys in Tokyo revealed 1,085 victims of accidents during bathing transported by ambulance from October 1999 to March 2000. 53% of them were cardiac arrest and 25% were those who needed rescue from bath tub because of consciousness disturbance (rescued group). Clinical observation of the rescued group patients indicated they suffered from transient loss of consciousness probably because of elevated body temperature. The current hypothesis of the accidents during bathing is a unique type of heat illness exposed by high water temperature(41-43 degrees C). Geriatric population is vulnerable to the bathing induced heat illness.<p />  <p>Language: ja</p>
LA  - ja
SN  - 0047-1852
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -