Severe heat stroke correlates with longer hospital stays and higher oxidative stress markers compared to mild cases.
Why Your Body Fights Heat Stroke
This prospective cohort study included 49 patients with heat stroke (34 mild and 15 severe cases) and healthy volunteers. Severe cases demon…
Severe heat stroke disables a key body defense switch, letting rust damage organs and causing patients to stay in the hospital much longer.
Recalibrated SOFA 2.0 score shows stepwise mortality association in heat stroke cohort
A Better Score for Predicting Who Survives Heat Stroke
A multicenter retrospective cohort study of 292 patients with first-time heat stroke found that a recalibrated SOFA 2.0 score showed a stepw…
A new scoring system predicts who will die from heat stroke more accurately than older tools, helping doctors spot the most dangerous patien…
Multimodal cardiac imaging shows highest accuracy for myocardial injury detection in heat stroke patients
Heat Stroke Can Silently Damage Your Heart — Here's How Doctors Now Check
A retrospective cohort study of 187 heat stroke patients found that a multimodal imaging approach combining echocardiography, cardiac MRI, a…
Combining three heart scans after heat stroke detects dangerous muscle damage that any single test would miss in nearly 1 in 7 patients.
Observational report links heat waves and record temperatures to heat-related illnesses and deaths
How dangerous are heat waves? A new report links them to illness and death.
An observational report from the United States associates heat waves and record high temperatures with heat-related illnesses and deaths. No…
Extreme heat waves across the U.S. are directly causing heat-related illnesses and deaths, especially in the northwest, according to a new r…