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Sun Dec 24 12:53:11 GMT 2006

This may be true in your neck of the woods but here in Oz a fair portion
of my work involves heat induced illness of some sort. Our lay people
and first responders are quite at home with identifying and treating
such illness from its earliest stages.  Perhaps a geographical issue for
you to deal with?

Cheers

John Boel

-----Original Message-----
From: trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org
[mailto:trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org] On Behalf Of oded private
Sent: Sunday, 24 December 2006 11:38 PM
To: trauma-list at trauma.org
Subject: RE: cooling down the heat stroke victim

BTW

It's amazing how virtullay everybody outside the medical world (such as
lay 
persons) and many inside it (such as EMTS') don't understand that heat 
stroke is a true medical emergency. I think that holywood, with its
reknown 
scene you see in every third movie of someone lost in desert, starting
to 
get delrious then crashes, later to be "saved" with a few drops of
water, 
has much to do with it.

>From: "Ronald Gross" <Rgross at harthosp.org>
>Reply-To: "Trauma &amp; Critical Care mailing list" 
><trauma-list at trauma.org>
>To: "'Trauma &amp; Critical Care mailing list'"
<trauma-list at trauma.org>
>Subject: RE: cooling down the heat stroke victim
>Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 19:25:07 -0500
>
>"I think it all boils down to what you have on hand."
>       ;-)
>Nice pun, Gustavo!
>
>Merry Christmas,
>Ron
>
> >>> "Gustavo E. Flores" <gflores911 at gmail.com> 12/23/2006 6:25 PM >>>
>Oded,
>
>I think it all boils down to what you have on hand. At the first aider
>/
>first responder level I'd suggest they start with the first thing they
>have.
>Being heat stroke a real emergency I wouldn't want laypersons waiting
>for
>cold water without doing anything.
>
>Gustavo E. Flores Bauer, MSIII EMT-P :.
>www.EmergencyTeam.Net
>San Juan, Puerto Rico
>Iberoamerican University School of Medicine
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>
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>
>Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger
>than the brain cells they occupied.
>
>      - Arnold H. Glasgow
>
>"My karma ran over your dogma".
>
>S:.F:.U:.
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