title: Full skin thickness burns caused by contact with the pavement in a heat-stroke victim.
abstract: A 70-year-old woman, with a previous history of heat-stroke, suffered another heat-stroke on a hot summer day (air temperature 43 degrees C (109 degrees F)). She presented the rare complication of a heat-stroke plus deep burns sustained while lying unconscious on the pavement. In addition to age, obesity, previous illness, incidental fever, drugs, dehydration and physical effort, a previous history of heat-stroke is probably an important risk factor for a second heat-stroke. Burns from contact with the pavement are uncommon but possible, especially if the patient is obese, immobile and poorly insulated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine-D, Soroka Medical Center, Beer Sheva, Israel.
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Vardy
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Khoury
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ben-Meir
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ben-Yakar
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shoenfeld
mesh_terms: D000059:Accidents; D000368:Aged; D002056:Burns / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006359:Heat Exhaustion / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D006838:Hydrocarbons
chemical_list: D006838:Hydrocarbons; C006647:asphalt