Association between active cooling and lower mortality among patients with heat stroke and heat exhaustion.

ABSTRACT: Body cooling is recommended for patients with heat stroke and heat exhaustion. However, differences in the outcomes of patients who do or do not receive active cooling therapy have not been determined. The best available evidence supporting active cooling is based on a case series without comparison groups; thus, the effectiveness of this method in improving patient prognoses cannot be appropriately quantified. Therefore, we compared the outcomes of heat stroke patients receiving active cooling with those of patients receiving rehydration-only therapy. This prospective observational multicenter registry-based study of heat stroke and heat exhaustion patients was conducted in Japan from 2010 to 2019. The patients were stratified into the "severe" group or the "mild-to-moderate" group, per c

SUBMITTER: Kanda J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8598059 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature