Could hydrocodone and excessive heat cause cardiac arrest?

Yes: Too much hydrocodone is an anesthesia and can stop the breathing center and stops breathing in a person, hypoxia and death. Too much heat causes vasodilatation in the periphery in attempt to dissipate heat, hypotension, and shock and stagnation of blood flow and death. The heart will try to compensate and will fail. Beyond a certain temperature, our body enzymes and tissues and cells are cooked.