TY - JOUR
PY - 2023//
TI - Heat stroke in the work environment: case report of an underestimated phenomenon
JO - International journal of environmental research and public health
A1 - Marrone, Maricla
A1 - Buongiorno, Luigi
A1 - Caricato, Pierluigi
A1 - Pititto, Fortunato
A1 - De Luca, Benedetta Pia
A1 - Angeletti, Carlo
A1 - Sebastiani, Gabriele
A1 - Cascardi, Eliano
A1 - Ingravallo, Giuseppe
A1 - Stellacci, Alessandra
A1 - Cazzato, Gerardo
SP - e4028
EP - e4028
VL - 20
IS - 5
N2 - Average global temperatures continue to trend upward, and this phenomenon is part of the more complex climate change taking place on our planet over the past century. Human health is directly affected by environmental conditions, not only because of communicable diseases that are clearly affected by climate, but also because of the relationship between rising temperatures and increased morbidity for psychiatric diseases. As global temperatures and the number of extreme days increase, so does the risk associated with all those acute illnesses related to these factors. For example, there is a correlation between out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and heat. Then, there are pathologies that recognize excessive heat as the main etiological agent. This is the case with so-called "heat stroke", a form of hyperthermia accompanied by a systemic inflammatory response, which causes multi-organ dysfunction and sometimes death. Starting with a case that came to their attention of a young man in good general health who died while working unloading fruit crates from a truck, the authors wanted to express some thoughts on the need to adapt the world of work, including work-specific hazards, in order to protect the worker exposed to this "new risk" and develop multidisciplinary adaptation strategies that incorporate climatology, indoor/building environments, energy use, regulatory perfection of work and human thermal comfort. Language: en
LA - en
SN - 1661-7827
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20054028
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