title: Invasive evaluation of patients with heat stroke.
abstract: Right-heart catheterization was performed in ten patients who suffered heat stroke on their pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The group included seven men and three women who had mean rectal temperatures of 42.4 degrees C. Other findings included the following: heart rate (mean, 120 beats/min); cardiac output (mean, 8.2 ml/min/m2); arterial pressure (mean, 65 mm Hg); cardiac indices (mean, 4.4 ml/min/m2); right atrial pressure (mean, 6 mm Hg); pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (mean, 10 mm Hg); systemic vascular resistance (mean, 684 dyne.s.cm-5); pulmonary vascular resistance (mean, 86 dyne.s.cm-5); oxygen delivery (mean 837 ml/min/m2); oxygen consumption (mean 160 ml/min/m2); mixed venous oxygen tension (mean, 56 mm Hg); and shunt fraction (mean, 20 percent). Nine patients survived. One, who had a cardiopulmonary arrest before any treatment could be administered, died.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine, King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: N S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Dahmash
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: al Harthi
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Akhtar
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D005260:Female; D006359:Heat Exhaustion / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010100:Oxygen / Q000097:blood; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D012119:Respiration
chemical_list: D010100:Oxygen