Pediatric Emergency Playbook

AUGUST 1, 2020

Hyperthermia. Heat illness and heat stroke. Pediatr Rev 2007; 28:249. Environmental issues for team physicians. Am J Sports Med. 2008 Nov;36(11):2226-37. Ishimine P. In: Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Baren JM, Rothrock SG, Brennan JA, Brown L (Eds), Saunders Elsevier, Philadelphia 2008. Jardine DS.

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Hyperthermia / Hypothermia Stroke Best Practices Pediatrics 52

EMDocs

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Both can result in heat exhaustion and heat stroke and have many overlapping symptoms. Patients with heat stroke have hot, dry skin and altered mental status (e.g., C, and heat stroke occurs at a core temperature > 40°C. As you attempt to examine the patient, he has a generalized, tonic-clonic seizure.

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Hyperthermia / Hypothermia EMS Stroke Seizures 68

ACEP Now

OCTOBER 3, 2023

This document is an update of guidelines first published in 2000, and then updated in 2007. This guideline revision is particularly timely as EMS systems have shown their abilities to dramatically improve survival and neurologic outcome after cardiac arrest, STEMI, acute stroke, and other time-sensitive conditions.

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Fluid Resuscitation Documentation/Coding Resuscitation EMS 98