Heat stroke is a severe, life-threatening condition marked by body overheating, with body temperatures above 104°F (40°C). Heat exhaustion is milder form of heat-related illness that can precede heat stroke, having symptoms like sweating and rapid puls
The presence or absence of sweating is an unreliable guide to diagnosing or excluding heat stroke. To distinguish nonfatal heat exhaustion from potentially fatal exertional heat stroke, and when monitoring the acute treatment of heat stroke, measurement of core temperature along with assessment of ...
BenMAP does not include information on renal or heat-related (i.e., specific effects of heat such as heat exhaustion and heat stroke) hospitalization rates. Therefore, annual warm season (May–September) renal hospitalization rates were estimated from a Michigan study of EH and hospitalization for...