Heat Illness
This is the umbrella term for abnormally high body temperature that can become life-threatening if unmanaged.
What is hyperthermia?
Best practice is for fluid intake during exercise to do this relative to sweat loss.
What is match (replace) sweat loss?
The athletic-training tool used to measure humidity that helps calculate WBGT.
What is a psychrometer?
Skin feels firm and cold and may blister—this milder cold injury comes before frostbite.
What is frostnip?
The approximate number of bones in an average adult human skeleton.
What is 206?
Often the first stage of heat illness, these painful, involuntary muscle contractions are common in hot exercise.
What are Heat Cramps?
This low-sodium condition results from overhydration, not dehydration.
What is exercise-associated hyponatremia?
The purpose of monitoring WBGT in athletic activities.
What is assessing heat-illness risk (temp, humidity, sun, wind) to guide safe activity?
The primary treatment approach for frostnip.
What is gradual rewarming of the affected area?
This longest bone runs from hip to knee.
What is the femur?
Characterized by headache and nausea with a core temp that may be below 104°F, this condition precedes the most severe form.
What is heat exhaustion?
Two common symptoms of exercise-associated hyponatremia.
What are (any two) headache, nausea/vomiting, swelling of hands/feet, lethargy, apathy, agitation?
Of the options “shed,” “dugout,” or “fully enclosed building,” this is the recommended lightning shelter.
What is a fully enclosed building (indoors)?
These two environmental factors raise hypothermia risk.
What are (any two) low temperature, wind chill, dampness?
The axial skeleton includes the skull, vertebral column, and this protective cage.
What is the rib cage (thoracic cage)?
With symptoms like headache, nausea, and a body temperature above 104°F, this is the most dangerous heat illness.
What is Heat Stroke?
Along with acclimatization and record-keeping, this uniform recommendation helps heat dissipation.
What is wearing lightweight uniforms?
These written procedures are essential for managing environmental injuries.
What are Emergency Action Plans (EAPs)?
The body’s automatic muscular response that generates heat to resist hypothermia.
What is shivering?
These are the five major bone shape categories.
What are long, short, flat, irregular, and sesamoid?
The heat-loss method from moving air or water across skin.
What is convection?
High humidity does this to the body’s ability to cool by evaporation.
What is decreases it?
The leading environmental cause of death among secondary-school athletes isn’t lightning—it’s this.
What is hyperthermia?
Direct contact heat transfer from a cold bench to the athlete.
What is conduction?
This thin, fibrous membrane covers bones, nourishing and helping them heal.
What is the periosteum?