All right, so welcome back to the Internet Book of Critic Prepare podcast. I'm here with Adam Thomas.

And we're going to talk about hyperthermia and heat stroke. Josh, this really lit up Twitter.

It's fitting for heat stroke because people were throwing some hot fire around for sure.

Yeah, that was a little surprising, but it was interesting.

So today we're going to talk about approach for the definition diagnosis of hypothermia

and then a package approach, multiple approaches to get that temperature down as soon as possible.

We're not emphasizing just one approach.

We're going to talk about lots of them, okay?

That's the caveat.

Make sure you read the post and understand that we can do multiple things at once.

We all agree on that, Josh?

Agreed, totally.

All right, let's talk about the definition and diagnosis.

What is hypothermia and why is it not fever?

Yeah, so fever is basically hypothalamically mediated increase in body temperature. Typically, it's driven by cytokines. And that's going to max out. Usually it around 104 degrees Fahrenheit or 40C, maybe a little bit higher. But there's a maximum temperature that your thalamus.

Your hypothalamus isn't crazy.

It's not going to kill you.

Hyperthermia, on the other hand, is basically an imbalance of heat generation and clearance of heat from the body where the musculature or your environment or for various reasons,

more heat is being generated than can be cleared and is just heat overload.

So on presentation, the discriminating factors here are absolute temperature.

So like Josh said, if you're over 41 degrees, you've got to start looking at hypothermia and not

fever.

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