title: The impact of heat on morbidity and mortality.
abstract: With forecast trends predicting climate changes that will result in warmer weather globally, the potential for heat-related morbidities and mortality increases. Critical care nurses are uniquely poised to have an impact on the health care consequences of persons exposed to excessive ambient heat. The first step is a clearer understanding of ambient heat, heat conditions, and heat factors. This understanding combined with knowledge of persons at highest risk for heat-related mortality and morbidity can lead to interventions to ameliorate the prevalence and incidence of these incidents.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37240, USA. steve.krau@vanderbilt.edu
authors.forename: Stephen D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Krau
mesh_terms: D064648:Critical Care Nursing; D018882:Heat Stress Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality / Q000451:nursing; D006358:Hot Temperature / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D009017:Morbidity; D005082:Physical Exertion; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data