three hundred and seventy seven patients with different degrees of heat stroke were treated by the haji medical team of the islamic republic of iran in 1371 (1992). studies were carried out on sex of the patients, time and intensity of occurance and the vital signs after a medical examination. the most important method of treatment employed for intense heat stroke was iced bath. this procedure ...

       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...

background exertional heat stroke (ehs) is still a main cause of death in sport. many of ehs complications could have been prevented if ehs had been recognized and treated early and properly. case presentation we report an unusual case of multiple organ failure caused by ehs due to intensive sportive activities in a hot environment with lack of primary care. a 35-year-old healthy sportive man w...

A child's heatstroke is an unexpected accident; however, we are able to prevent it analyzing the situation which occurred, and its cause. The large-scale research about a child's heatstroke had not been carried out to the past in Japan. According to Heatstroke STUDY, more than 90% of a child's heatstroke were aged 6 and over; furthermore, 70% of those children were doing sports. I expect that t...

Does the action system contribute to action perception? Recent evidence suggests that actions are simulated while being observed. Given that the planning and simulating system are the same only when one observes one's own actions, it might be easier to predict the future outcomes of actions when one has carried them out oneself earlier on. In order to test this hypothesis, three experiments wer...

Heat stroke is triggered by heat, but is driven by endotoxemia and the downstream effects of systemic inflammation, acute phase response and the pyrogenic response. Whereas heat stroke and its related fatality commonly occur at core temperature (Tc) >40°C, healthy individuals have tolerated Tc 40°C-42°C without symptoms of heat stroke, suggesting that besides hyperthermia, there are other facto...

BACKGROUND Heat stroke is an illness with a high risk of mortality or morbidity, which can occur in the young and fit (exertional heat stroke) as well as the elderly and infirm (nonexertional heat stroke). In the United States, from 2006 to 2010, there were at least 3332 deaths attributed to heat stroke. OBJECTIVE To summarize the available evidence on the principal cooling methods used in th...

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