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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. bringing life‑threatening conditions through midweek. "Its Its like taking the batteries out of your thermostat.

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What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

GeriPal

Darrell: Then I had another one that was much later in the process that was actually vaccinated, who was over 90, who had a lot of medical issues. We had a very big second surge here in November, where the first surge was really nursing home population. These are vaccinated folks who come in. We have lost so many nurses.