Heat stroke

For whom the desert bell tolls: heat stroke or stroke

       Heat stroke is the most complicated and dangerous amongst heat injuries that can lead to irreversible injury and even death with itself or with creating predisposibility to different diseases. The following case report depicts a patient who presented primarily with impairment of consciousness after walking 45 km in the summer heat to cross the Syria-Turkey border and la...

Heat stroke.

Heatstroke is the most severe form of the heatrelated illnesses and is caused by an excessive rise in deep body temperature due to thermoregulatory failure. It is characterized primarily by hyperthermia usually with core temperature above 40.6o C (105o F), central nervous system dysfunction, metabolic derangement and coma. Heat stroke is the least common but most serious form of heat disorder. ...

Heat-Stroke

Heat Stroke

When psychological and physiologic adaptation mechanisms become dysfunction to environment induced a period of elevated heat stress, heat-related emergencies occur. Heat-related illness may be trivial to life threatening. They represent a continuum of disorders such as heat edema, prickly heat, heat cramps, heat tetany, heat syncope, and heat exhaustion to critical disease well known as heat st...

Heat Stroke and Schizophrenia

indicate the degree of initial response that may be expected in potential responders and nonresponders, when the same diagnostic criteria, selection criteria, treatment criteria and response criteria are applied. REFERENCES Andrade, C. (1990) Psychobiological frontiers of electroconvulsive therapy in depression : Evaluation of strategies for rational prescription and reduction in morbidity. Til...