For whom the desert bell tolls: heat stroke or stroke
Heat stroke is the most complicated and dangerous amongst heat injuries that can lead to irreversible injury and even death with itself or with creating predisposibility to different diseases. The following case report depicts a patient who presented primarily with impairment of consciousness after...
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Kerman University of Medical Sciences
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| author | Mustafa Bolatkale Çağdaş Can Ahmet Çağdaş Acara |
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| description | Heat stroke is the most complicated and dangerous amongst heat injuries that can lead to irreversible injury and even death with itself or with creating predisposibility to different diseases. The following case report depicts a patient who presented primarily with impairment of consciousness after walking 45 km in the summer heat to cross the Syria-Turkey border and later syncope. This case report aims to highlight the possibility of higher co-incidence with heat stroke and stroke. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ecec12de1ba341998c07f0ae7c09e03e2022-12-22T02:48:17ZengKerman University of Medical SciencesJournal of Emergency Practice and Trauma2383-45442017-06-0132737410.15171/jept.2016.04For whom the desert bell tolls: heat stroke or strokeMustafa Bolatkale0 Çağdaş Can1Ahmet Çağdaş Acara2Department of Emergency Medicine, Medipol University Hospital, Istanbul, TurkeyDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Manisa State Hospital, Manisa, TurkeyDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Bitlis State Hospital, Bitlis, TurkeyHeat stroke is the most complicated and dangerous amongst heat injuries that can lead to irreversible injury and even death with itself or with creating predisposibility to different diseases. The following case report depicts a patient who presented primarily with impairment of consciousness after walking 45 km in the summer heat to cross the Syria-Turkey border and later syncope. This case report aims to highlight the possibility of higher co-incidence with heat stroke and stroke.http://jept.ir/article_32049_d64f3edec514bd4253a7571d248f92f0.pdfRefugeeStrokeHeat |
| spellingShingle | Mustafa Bolatkale Çağdaş Can Ahmet Çağdaş Acara For whom the desert bell tolls: heat stroke or stroke Journal of Emergency Practice and Trauma Refugee Stroke Heat |
| title | For whom the desert bell tolls: heat stroke or stroke |
| title_full | For whom the desert bell tolls: heat stroke or stroke |
| title_fullStr | For whom the desert bell tolls: heat stroke or stroke |
| title_full_unstemmed | For whom the desert bell tolls: heat stroke or stroke |
| title_short | For whom the desert bell tolls: heat stroke or stroke |
| title_sort | for whom the desert bell tolls heat stroke or stroke |
| topic | Refugee Stroke Heat |
| url | http://jept.ir/article_32049_d64f3edec514bd4253a7571d248f92f0.pdf |
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