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Article: Beat the Heat: Recognizing and Managing Pediatric Heat-Related Illness.
- Article from:
- Pediatric Emergency Medicine Reports
- Article date:
- May 1, 2003
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Beat the Heat: Recognizing and Managing Pediatric Heat-Related Illness
Author: S. Margaret Paik, MD, FAAP, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, The University of Chicago Childrens Hospital, Chicago, IL.
Peer Reviewer: John P. Santamaria, MD, FAAP, FACEP, Medical Director, After Hours Pediatrics; Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of South Florida School of Medicine, Tampa.
As the seasons change and summer approaches in the United States, the risk of heat-related illness for pediatric patients climbs. Since 1996, at least 150 children have died as a result of being trapped in hot, parked vehicles..sup.1 Contrary to what would be ...