title: Singapore Armed Forces Medical Corps-Ministry of Health clinical practice guidelines: management of heat injury.
abstract: The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Medical Corps and the Ministry of Health (MOH) have published clinical practice guidelines on Management of Heat Injury to provide doctors and patients in Singapore with evidence-based guidance on the prevention and clinical management of exertional heat injuries. This article reproduces the introduction and executive summary (with recommendations from the guidelines) from the SAF Medical Corps-MOH clinical practice guidelines on Management of Heat Injury, for the information of readers of the Singapore Medical Journal. Chapters and page numbers mentioned in the reproduced extract refer to the full text of the guidelines, which are available from the Ministry of Health website: http://www.moh.gov.sg/mohcorp/publications.aspx?id=25178. The recommendations should be used with reference to the full text of the guidelines. Following this article are multiple choice questions based on the full text of the guidelines.
authors.affiliation: Singapore Armed-Forces Medical Corps-Ministry of Health Clinical Guidelines Workgroup on Management of Heat Injury.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Fock
authors.forename: C L F
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: E H M
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Ong
authors.forename: B H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Poon
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Pwee
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: O'Muircheartaigh
authors.forename: B
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authors.lastname: Seet
authors.forename: C L B
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Tan
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authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Teoh
mesh_terms: D001831:Body Temperature; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006359:Heat Exhaustion / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D018883:Heat Stroke / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006358:Hot Temperature; D006801:Humans; D008889:Military Personnel; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012846:Singapore