Heat-Related Illness
Thousands of miles apart, two public safety professionals point to detailed plans as the reason for their organizations鈥� disaster response success
Learn the risk factors, symptoms and factors that impact heat-related illness
As a responder鈥檚 core temperature continues to rise, morbidity progresses along the heat illness spectrum to heat exhaustion and heatstroke
Most experienced heat exhaustion; seven adults and a 14-year-old girl required hospital treatment
Older, heavily medicated prisoners are greater risk as they cannot cool themselves as those on the outside can
You respond to a call for an unresponsive teenager while working at a first aid station
Left untreated, heat-related illness can lead to death, but sound rehab practices can prevent or mitigate these problems
