Treatments for Heatstroke
Treatments for Heatstroke
The list of treatments mentioned in various sources
for Heatstroke
includes the following list.
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or change in treatment plans.
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The following are some of the latest treatments for Heatstroke:
- Evaporative cooling
- Ice pack cooling
- Cold water immersion
- Antipyretic agents
- IV fluids
- Benzodiazepam
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Heat syndrome:
Treatment
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
For specific guidelines on treating heat syndrome, see Managing heat syndrome.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Stroke:
Treatment (Tx)
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
tissue plasminogen activator, anticoagulants, antiplatelet aggregate therapy, anticonvulsants, stool softeners, analgesics, surgery
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Stroke:
Treatment
(Handbook of Diseases)
Treatment options vary, depending on the type of stroke the patient experiences. Early medical diagnosis of the type of stroke coupled with new drug treatments can greatly reduce the long-term disability secondary to ischemia.
Surgery performed to improve cerebral circulation for patients with thrombotic or embolic stroke includes an endarterectomy (the removal of atherosclerotic plaque from the inner arterial wall) or a microvascular bypass (the surgical anastomosis of an extracranial vessel to an intracranial vessel).
Medications useful in treating stroke include:
❑ alteplase (recombinant tissue plasminogen activator), effective in emergency treatment of embolic stroke (See Restoring ischemic brain tissue with alteplase.) (Patients with embolic or thrombotic stroke who aren’t candidates for alteplase [3 to 6 hours poststroke] should receive aspirin or heparin.)
❑ long-term use of aspirin or ticlopidine, used as antiplatelet agents to prevent recurrent stroke
❑ anticoagulants (heparin, warfarin), which may be required to treat crescendo TIAs not responsive to antiplatelet drugs
❑ antihypertensives, antiarrhythmics, and antidiabetics, which may be used to treat risk factors associated with recurrent stroke.
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
Heat intolerance:
Nursing considerations
(Nursing: Interpreting Signs and Symptoms)
▪ Adjust the room temperature to make the patient comfortable.
▪ If the patient is diaphoretic, change his clothing and bed linens as necessary, and encourage him to drink lots of fluids.
Patient teaching
▪ Teach the patient about the disease process and its treatments.
▪ Discuss the importance of proper hygiene and drinking plenty of fluids.
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Source: Nursing: Interpreting Signs and Symptoms, 2007
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