@article{ref1,
title="Heat stroke in hospital patients during the summer 2003 heat wave: a nosocomial disease",
journal="Presse Medicale (1983)",
year="2006",
author="Ferron, Claire and Trewick, David and Le Conte, Philippe and Batard, Eacute Ric and Girard, Laëtitia and Potel, Gilles",
volume="35",
number="2 Pt 1",
pages="196-199",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: We investigated patients who died in our institution during the August 2003 heat wave, to determine whether some in hospital patients actually died of heat stroke. METHODS: Records of all patients who died in our tertiary care hospital between 6-15 August 2003 were analyzed retrospectively. Heat stroke was considered the cause of death when the following criteria were met: body temperature higher than 40.5 degrees C, except if there was documented evidence of cooling before the first temperature measurement, central nervous system abnormalities, and a reliable history of exposure to high temperatures in a hospital ward. The number of patients who died in the hospital during the heat wave was compared with data from the previous year. RESULTS: Seventeen patients died from hospital-acquired heat stroke (19% of all hospital deaths). This condition accounted for a 25% increase in hospital mortality over the same period during 2002. COMMENT: Hospital-acquired heat stroke appears to be a nosocomial disease that was responsible for an overall increase in hospital mortality during the 2003 heat wave.<p /><p>Language: fr</p>",
language="fr",
issn="0755-4982",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}