Heat Stress Disorders

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Injury or Poisoning

Definition:

A group of conditions due to overexposure to or overexertion in excess environmental temperature. It includes heat cramps, which are non-emergent and treated by salt replacement; heat exhaustion, which is more serious, treated with fluid and salt replacement; and heat stroke, a condition most commonly affecting extremes of age, especially the elderly, accompanied by convulsions, delusions, or coma and treated with cooling the body and replacement of fluids and salts. (From Segen, Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992)

Synonyms:

Cramp, Heat
Cramps, Heat
Disorder, Heat Stress
Disorders, Heat Stress
Heat Cramp
Heat Cramps
Heat Stress Disorder
Heat Stress Syndrome
Heat Stress Syndromes
Stress Disorder, Heat
Stress Disorders, Heat
Stress Syndrome, Heat
Stress Syndromes, Heat
Syndrome, Heat Stress
Syndromes, Heat Stress

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