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Hyperthermia and heatstroke
1Harvard Medical School, Boston.
Hospital Practice (Office Ed.)
|August 15, 1994
Abstract:
Occurring chiefly in epidemics during hot, humid summer weather, heatstroke dramatically demonstrates the consequences of uncontrolled body temperature elevation. It also illuminates the mechanism and management of unusual hyperthermic disorders associated, for example, with neuroleptic and anesthetic drugs.