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Clinical characteristics, prognostic factors, and outcomes of heat-related illness (Heatstroke Study 2017-2018).

Junya ShimazakiToru HifumiKeiki ShimizuYasutaka OdaJun KandaYutaka KondoShinichiro ShiraishiShuhei TakaujiKei HayashidaTakashi MoriyaMasaharu YagiJunko YamaguchiHiroyuki YokotaShoji YokoboriMasahiro WakasugiArino YaguchiYasufumi Miyake
Published in: Acute medicine & surgery (2020)
In this study, hospital mortality of heat-related illness was <5%, one-sixth of the patients had poor neurological outcome. The APACHE II, SOFA, and JAAM DIC scores predicted hospital mortality. Body temperature was not associated with mortality or poor neurological outcome.
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