"It's so hot it's killing people" is no joke! Especially in this case, the mortality rate is extremely high!

Yesterday morning, Hangzhou issued the first red high temperature warning signal this year. In the afternoon, according to the official website of Hangzhou Meteorological Observatory, the real-time temperature in Hangzhou reached 40.2℃!

3pm, near Tianmushan Road and Huancheng West Road. Netizens posted the real-time temperature in the car: 44.5℃! Feeling: "Blue and thin", lack of oxygen, about to "melt down"

Is there any higher temperature inside the car than this?

Serious reminder: Recently, the number of patients suffering from heat stroke in Hangzhou has increased. Shaw Hospital alone admitted at least 10 patients in two days. A hospital in Lishui, Zhejiang, even had someone die from heat stroke!

The emergency department admitted patients for two days

More than 10 cases of heat stroke

In the past two days, the emergency department of the Qingchun campus of the Run Run Shaw Hospital affiliated to Zhejiang University School of Medicine has admitted more than 10 patients who were sent to the hospital for heat stroke. The most seriously ill male patient was diagnosed with heat stroke and has not been discharged from the hospital yet.

The more than 10 patients had mild and severe symptoms, ranging from limb spasms to coma and urinary incontinence. Among them, a male patient suffered from heat stroke because of outdoor work in hot weather. Miao Yansong, an emergency doctor at Zhejiang University Run Run Shaw Hospital, said that everyone should avoid working and exercising for a long time in a hot and high temperature environment. If dizziness, fatigue, vomiting and other discomfort symptoms occur, seek medical attention as soon as possible.

A patient with heat stroke in Lishui, Zhejiang

Unfortunately he passed away after more than 30 hours of rescue.

At around 4 p.m. on July 6, the Emergency Medicine Department of Lishui Central Hospital received a 47-year-old patient suffering from heat stroke. It is understood that the patient was a workshop worker who suddenly fainted while working. When he was admitted to the hospital, his body temperature reached 40.7°C and he showed symptoms of shock.

The doctor immediately transferred the patient to the emergency intensive care unit for treatment. Unfortunately, after more than 30 hours of rescue, the patient was still in danger and died in the early morning of July 8.

Another person in critical condition is a 70-year-old grandmother from Qingtian. On June 30, due to the hot weather and lack of heat protection, the old lady developed persistent high fever and confusion during her nap at noon. When she was sent to the emergency department by her family, she was already in a deep coma.

The body temperature was as high as 42.5℃, and he was incontinent. He had multiple organ failures, including respiratory, nervous, digestive, liver, and kidney failures, and his condition was extremely dangerous. After the doctor's emergency rescue and temperature control, his vital signs were basically stable, but he was still in a coma.

Beware! Heat stroke is the most serious form of heat stroke

The mortality rate is extremely high!

Heat stroke has occurred continuously recently

Hot summer weather

Like sanitation workers, construction workers, traffic police, food deliverymen, etc.

Outdoor workers

When working at high temperatures

More likely to get heat stroke

Once you feel unwell

Seek medical treatment promptly

The concept of heat stroke is quite broad.

From the clinical manifestations

According to the severity of heat stroke

It can be divided into three categories:

Premonitory heat stroke, mild heat stroke, severe heat stroke

The most important thing to pay attention to is severe heat stroke

Severe heat stroke includes

Heat cramps, heat exhaustion and heat stroke

Heat stroke is the most serious type of heat stroke

The patient's core temperature rises rapidly

Central nervous system abnormalities

and multiple organ system injury

If the patient is not treated promptly and effectively

The mortality rate is extremely high!

What should you do if you have heat stroke? Remember these 5 points!

◆Help the patient lie down in a cool and ventilated place, raise his head, and unbutton his clothes to facilitate his breathing and heat dissipation;

◆Replenish the water needed by the body, preferably with light salt water;

◆Use wet towels, ice packs, ice cubes, and fans to help cool the patient down;

◆ Raise the patient's feet to help venous return and relieve shock;

◆If the situation is serious, call 120 and send the patient to the hospital emergency department as soon as possible;

Hot weather

Everyone must take precautions against heatstroke!

Source: Science Popularization China WeChat Official Account

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