Heat Illness
Common heat-related emergency among people who exercise in hot temperatures. These painful muscle contractions usually occur after physical activity has stopped.
What are Heat Cramps?
A
What is Airway?
Part 1 of the GCS
What is Eye Opening?
Acute loss of blood volume, either from dehydration or hemorrhage.
What is hypovolemic shock?
Dose of adult IM Epi.
What is 0.3mg of the 1:1,000 Epi?
Volume depletion from excessive sweating in hot temperatures.
What is Heat Exhaustion?
B
What is Breathing?
Part 2 of GCS.
What is Best Verbal Response?
The peripheral vessels dilate below the level of the injury.
What is neurogenic shock?
The time frame for when TXA can be given after an injury.
What is <3 hours?
A syndrome in which the body loses its ability to regulate temperature, resulting in altered LOC, elevated core body temp, and multiorgan failure.
What is heatstroke?
C
What is circulation?
Part 3 of GCS.
What is Best Motor Response?
Failure of the hearts pumping activity.
What is cardiogenic shock?
The number that a person's MAP should be for perfusion.
What is 65?
This regulates body temperature.
What is the hypothalamus?
D
What is disability?
Eyes open on Command
Gives inappropriate answers
Withdrawal to pain
What is GCS of 10?
Occurs when the vascular container enlarges without a proportional increase in fluid volume.
What is Distributive shock?
Cushings Triade.
What is widened pulse pressure, bradycardia, and irregular respirations?
Signs and symptoms include altered LOC, hyperventilation, tachycardia, hypotension.
What is Heatstroke?
E
What is Expose/environment?
Eye opening to painful stimulus
Makes unintelligible noises
Withdrawal to pain
What is GCS of 8?
S/s include warm, dry, and pink skin
blood pressure drops
LOC can be normal
Capillary refill time is normal
What is neurogenic shock?
75 year old male with obvious head trauma and GCS of 11 involved in a rollover accident.
Level II Trauma.