Environmental emergencies
Heat stroke and hyperthermia
2 questions
2 questions
Practise these insteadA 16-year-old boy collapses at the finish of a school cross-country race in Perth on a 39-degree day. He is confused, cannot say where he is, and is unsteady wh…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 21-year-old man collapses at the 14 km mark of a city fun run on a 34°C day. In the trackside medical tent he is confused and agitated with a Glasgow Coma Sca…
Pre-internship · common
Part of Environmental emergencies in Critical Care: Emergency Medicine, Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care.