How does extreme heat affect our body? | In Focus podcast
In Focus by The Hindu
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The Different Types of Heat Related Illnesses
The main treatment is aggressive cooling. When you cool them within the first one which is called the golden earth, most often patients actually do improve and they actually walk back. Most often what happens is patients will be received in the emergency department. We need to ask the background history of whether they had the history of travel,. Whether they have been exposed to high temperature or any other conditions such as a bacterial infection that we commonly call sepsis.
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