A physiological body-cooling unit for treatment of heat stroke.
The high incidence of heat stroke during the Mecca pilgrimage in hot weather prompted the development of a new method of rapidly cooling hyperpyrexial patients. A cooling bed was devised which achieved a high rate of evaporative cooling by spraying patients with water at 15 degrees C and warm air, which reached the body surface at 30-35 degrees C. The cooling bed also made possible the administration of ancillary treatment both efficiently and hygienically.
D001513:Beds; D001831:Body Temperature; D006359:Heat Exhaustion / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007036:Hypothermia, Induced / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D012881:Skin Temperature