Hyperthermia

The hyperthermia is rise local or general of the Température of the body, above the normal figure of 37-37,5 °C, or it is the rise in the central body temperature to the top of 38 °C. This hyperthermia can result:

  • of the reaction of the body to a Disease, one speaks then about Fièvre;
  • of one exposure to the heat of the sun, one speaks then about insolation ;
  • of one exposure to ambient heat (Heat wave, industrial environment, Fire), one then speaks about traditional heat stroke ;
  • of an intense effort with a bad dissipation of the heat (because of a too hot environment or too insulating clothing): one speaks about heat stroke of exercise or effort .

There is risk of death beyond 41,5 °C (irreversible cerebral Complications)

Treatment of the hyperthermique one

Treatment of the Heat stroke , traditional or of effort:

  • Monitoring of the temperature ( monitoring )

  • Cooling of the patient (to strip, apply cold and wet linens, cold gastric washing in specialized milieu, ventilation of the air, bath to 2 degrees under the temperature of the patient especially in the children)
  • Drugs: Paracetamol, Benzodiazepine
  • Measurements of hydration (+++) and filling (in specialized milieu).

External bonds

  • Heat stroke of exercise, an article of Urgency-practical

  • malignant Hyperthermia of effort mortal in tropical medium
  • thermal environment, CNAM (file pdf, 34p, 293 ki O)
  • Exercise in hot environment, variations physiological
  • To work by strong heats in summer, INRS
  • Tool for evaluation of the risks of heat strokes the Research institute Robert-Saved in health and occupational safety (IRSST)

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