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Exertional heat stroke in a marathon runner with extensive healed deep burns: a case report

Exertional heat illness typically occurs over hours in younger athletic patients or military recruits who exercise at elevated temperatures for a sufficient period of time to cause the rate of heat production to exceed the capacity of the body to dissipate heat. Since the physiological response to e...

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Autores principales: Seth, Puneet, Juliana, Poh
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3076232/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21509146
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1865-1380-4-12
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description Exertional heat illness typically occurs over hours in younger athletic patients or military recruits who exercise at elevated temperatures for a sufficient period of time to cause the rate of heat production to exceed the capacity of the body to dissipate heat. Since the physiological response to exercise includes cutaneous vasodilation and sweating, any limitation of such a response can cause rapid hyperthermia and thus heat stroke. One such condition is extensive burns healed by cicatrisation of the skin where the scar and grafted skin surface do not have functional sweat glands and are unable to lose heat in response to high temperatures. The authors report one unique case of a female marathon runner with exertional heat stroke who had recovered from deep second and third degree burns over approximately 50% of her body a few years ago.
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spelling pubmed-30762322011-04-20 Exertional heat stroke in a marathon runner with extensive healed deep burns: a case report Seth, Puneet Juliana, Poh Int J Emerg Med Case Report Exertional heat illness typically occurs over hours in younger athletic patients or military recruits who exercise at elevated temperatures for a sufficient period of time to cause the rate of heat production to exceed the capacity of the body to dissipate heat. Since the physiological response to exercise includes cutaneous vasodilation and sweating, any limitation of such a response can cause rapid hyperthermia and thus heat stroke. One such condition is extensive burns healed by cicatrisation of the skin where the scar and grafted skin surface do not have functional sweat glands and are unable to lose heat in response to high temperatures. The authors report one unique case of a female marathon runner with exertional heat stroke who had recovered from deep second and third degree burns over approximately 50% of her body a few years ago. Springer 2011-03-22 /pmc/articles/PMC3076232/ /pubmed/21509146 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1865-1380-4-12 Text en Copyright ©2011 Seth and Juliana; licensee Springer. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Exertional heat stroke in a marathon runner with extensive healed deep burns: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3076232/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21509146
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1865-1380-4-12
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