Heat Illness; Roadside to Resus

The Resus Room

Simon Laing

Science, Emergencymedicine, Medicine, Health & Fitness, Em, Ae

4.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

If you live in the UK you may be fooled in to thinking that Heat Illness isn't really something we need to worry about...but you'd be wrong! Each year there are 800 deaths due to Heat Illness and figures in more temperate climates are significantly more.

In this podcast we tackle the topic of Heat Illness, all the way through Heat Cramps, Heat Syncope, Heat Exhaustion and to Heat Stroke.

We'll cover the following;

Definition, clinical spectrum and categories
Scale of the problem
Thermoregulatory physiology
Impact of hyperthermia
Clinical findings
Those at greatest risk
Acclimatisation
Differentials
Management

As always we’d love to hear any thoughts or comments you have on the website and via twitter, we look forward to hearing from you, and most importantly, we hope we haven't missed the summer heat wave...!

Enjoy

Simon, Rob & James

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Recess Room podcast.
0:03.9	Five, four, three, two, one, fire.
0:12.9	So hi, and welcome back to the Recess Room podcast.
0:16.5	I'm Simon Lang.
0:17.7	I'm Rob Fenwick.
0:18.9	And I'm James Yates.
0:19.9	And we're back to talk about heat illness.
0:23.7	Oh, yes.
0:24.5	We are.
0:25.0	On a very grey and drizzly day, having just had some wonderful weather, which I think is the reason we got inspired for this topic, right?
0:31.7	Absolutely.
0:32.7	Absolutely.
0:33.6	I'm hearing my speedos.
0:34.8	I'm ready for summer.
0:37.2	We should have guessed that we would miss the two-day time period of the British summer.
0:42.4	But don't worry. This will be ready for next year then, I guess.
0:45.3	I know. Well, we do have listeners in other warm countries. So, you know, it's useful for them.
0:50.8	Do we? Occasionally, when mum goes away. Yeah. Excellent. Well, you can really enjoy
0:55.6	listening to ourselves again. So yeah, we're going to be talking about heat illness anyway. We're
1:00.9	going to be going through the spectrum of disorders that are included in that. And hopefully,
1:06.0	this will at some points during the year, be of some use to you all. Before we get going, I want to say a huge
1:12.4	thanks to our new partners, the Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine,
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