Wilderness Medical Society practice guidelines for the prevention and treatment of heat-related illness: 2014 update. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The Wilderness Medical Society (WMS) convened an expert panel to develop a set of evidence-based guidelines for the recognition, prevention, and treatment of heat illness. We present a review of the classifications, pathophysiology, and evidence-based guidelines for planning and preventive measures as well as best practice recommendations for both field and hospital-based therapeutic management of heat illness. These recommendations are graded on the basis of the quality of supporting evidence, and balance between the benefits and risks or burdens for each modality. This is an updated version of the original WMS Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Heat-Related Illness published in Wilderness & Environmental Medicine 2013;24(4):351-361.

publication date

  • December 1, 2014

Research

keywords

  • Heat Stress Disorders
  • Practice Patterns, Physicians'
  • Wilderness Medicine

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84916884879

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.wem.2014.07.017

PubMed ID

  • 25498263

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 25

issue

  • 4 Suppl