[Predictive prognostic factors in severe patients].
International classification of heat illness including heat stroke, heat exhaustion, the others is well known. However, the new classification from the grade III(severe) to the grade I(mild) is more common in Japan. There is a good correlation between the two classifications. The Heatstroke Surveillance Committee of the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine has collected the data using the new classification. The outcome of patients who were mechanically ventilated due to heat illness was not affected by cooling procedures but independently associated with systolic blood pressure and SpO2 at the scene, and arterial base excess on admission.
Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine.
Ryosuke
R
Tsuruta
Masaki
M
Todani
D018882:Heat Stress Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis