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How to identify a victim of heat exhaustion or heat stroke

Medical Xpress

The temperature is just going to continue to rise and at some point thats going to lead to death," says Wood, who has worked as a nurse practitioner in the emergency room. Its like taking the batteries out of your thermostat. Thats when we really need to aggressively cool people off in an ice bath."

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

For the most part, programs are doing, twice a day, nursing visits. They’re doing, once a day, either MD, or MP, or nurse practitioner visits in the home as well. Go back in your mind, November of 2020, COVID is at its peak, we don’t have vaccines quite yet. Eric: Virtual or in person, for the MD?

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