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EM@3AM: Hyperthermia

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football players, military). 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., As you attempt to examine the patient, he has a generalized, tonic-clonic seizure. 1 Fever is usually < 40C.

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What Are the Complications of Sickle Cell Trait?

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Other states which could also affect sickling would be dehydration, acidosis, hypoxia and hyperthermia. There is no positive association for deep venous thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, heart failure, stroke and no abnormalities of growth parameters in the pediatric population.