Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine Georgetown University Alexandria, Virginia
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Session Description: Summer is coming and with it, everything from heat exhaustion to heat stroke. Warm up your environmental knowledge on a practical approach to treating heat illness. We'll cover the different practice methods for cooling the heat stroke patient, complications, and latest recommendations for your ED.
Learning Objectives:
Describe the different heat-related illness categories: Heat Exhaustion to Heat Injury to Heat Stroke
List the different methods of effective external and internal cooling and goals.
Describe possible complications of heat illness and disposition.