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How do doctors care for someone suffering from heat stroke?
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Heat stroke: Hydration (aggressive) and cooling--possibly even intravenous systemic cooling. Labs to look for tissue damage (multiple systems from muscular damage to renal/liver failure).
Answered 8/11/2012
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