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American Journal of Nursing January 2012 Robert Allan Davis	The Big Chill: Accidental Hypothermia A potential cause of such emergent issues as cardiac arrhythmias, hypotension, and fluid and electrolyte shifts, accidental hypothermia can be deadly, is common among trauma patients, and is often difficult to recognize.
AboutSafety December 18, 2000	Heat In The Industrial Workplace Changes in both climatic conditions and industrial workplace practices have come to create greater heat- and fatigue-related problems than ever before.
Nursing May 2012 Fay Mitchell-Brown	Malignant hyperthermia: Turn down the heat An inherited disorder, malignant hyperthermia is a life-threatening reaction to certain common inhalational anesthetic agents or the depolarizing skeletal muscle relaxant succinylcholine in susceptible people.
American Family Physician June 1, 2005	Heat Exhaustion and Heatstroke: What You Should Know A patient hand-out on what heat exhaustion is, how to identify its symptoms and what to do if you, or someone else exhibits signs of the condition.
Nursing August 2011 Collins & Claros	Recognizing the face of dehydration Monitoring your patients' fluid status can prevent dehydration-a potentially fatal condition-and its complications.
Nursing March 2011 Ali & Gray-Vickrey	Limiting the Damage From Acute Kidney Injury This article will discuss your role in early detection and management of AKI with an emphasis on care for older adults.
AboutSafety December 5, 2001	What Is Heat Stress? Working or playing where it is hot puts stress on our body's cooling system. When the heat is combined with other stresses such as hard physical work, loss of fluids, fatigue or some medical conditions, it may lead to heat-related illness, disability and even death...
American Family Physician March 1, 2002 John M. Sauret	Rhabdomyolysis Rhabdomyolysis is a potentially life-threatening syndrome resulting from the breakdown of skeletal muscle fibers with leakage of muscle contents into the circulation. The most common causes are crush injury, overexertion, alcohol abuse and certain medicines and toxic substances...
American Journal of Nursing July 2008 Kiekkas et al.	Physical Antipyresis in Critically Ill Adults Nurses use a variety of methods to cool critically ill patients, even though there are no guidelines for the treatment of temperature elevation in this population.
Nursing May 2008 Yantis & Velander	How to Recognize and Respond to Refeeding Syndrome If your patient is malnourished, you need to assess her carefully before she restarts nutrition by any route to avoid potentially lethal consequences.
Nursing February 2010 Jeanne Held-Warmkessel	How to prevent and manage Tumor lysis syndrome Potentially fatal, tumor lysis syndrome is a metabolic disturbance caused by the death of cancer cells during cancer treatment and the release of their intracellular components into the bloodstream.
Nursing September 2011 Jacqueline Harden	Take a cool look at therapeutic hypothermia Therapeutic hypothermia may help prevent or minimize neurologic impairment in certain patients after cardiac arrest. This article takes a look at when TH is used and how to care for patients who are undergoing this intervention.
Nursing March 2009 Mary G. McKinley	Recognizing and Responding to Acute Liver Failure By quickly recognizing the signs and symptoms of acute liver failure, you can help your patient improve his odds of surviving this often-deadly condition.
Nursing November 2011 Jeanne Held-Warmkessel	Taming Three High-Risk Chemotherapy Complications A review of three common chemotherapy-associated complications that can be serious enough to require hospitalization: febrile neutropenia, chemotherapy-related nephrotoxicity, and chemotherapy-related enterotoxicity.
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Nursing March 2010 Peg Gray-Vickrey	Gathering pearls of knowledge for assessing older adults If you attended nursing school more than 10 years ago, you may have received limited education about gerontological nursing. But as baby boomers age, this is becoming an increasingly important area of nursing practice.
American Family Physician August 1, 2002 Mark W. Niedfeldt	Managing Hypertension in Athletes and Physically Active Patients Athletes and other physically active patients should be screened for hypertension and given appropriate therapy if needed.
American Journal of Nursing January 2010	Life-Support Interventions at the End of Life: Unintended Consequences Nurses need to be knowledgeable life-support interventions at the end of life and able to communicate what they know about those consequences to patients, family members, and others on the health care team, leading to better decision making at this difficult time.
AskMen.com Jacob Franek	Summer Health Care Guide Before you dive headfirst into all those fun activities that summer has to offer, remember that summer brings more with it than just the sun. Thankfully, you can avoid many of these seasonal hazards by following this summer health care guide.
American Family Physician June 1, 2005 O'Brien & Chennubhotla	Treatment of Edema Major causes of edema include venous obstruction, increased capillary permeability, and increased plasma volume secondary to sodium and water retention. A systematic approach is warranted to determine the underlying diagnosis.
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Home Toys April 2005 Frank Geissler	Now, Your Home Will Call You When There's a Problem While away, temperatures in your home or business will be carefully monitored, and you will automatically be notified via telephone whenever there is a dramatic on-site change in ambient temperature or other conditions.
AskMen.com Jeff Bayer	Muscle Cramps Learning how to deal with muscle cramps when they strike -- and how to prevent them altogether -- is a smart idea if you hate being sidelined.
American Family Physician August 15, 2005 Kathy Soch	Diary From a Week in Pactice A family physician sees a patient who wants to talk about his wife's condition more than his own... Attends a viewing of a nursing home patient... Sees a Minnesotan burned by Texas sun... etc.
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Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2011 Ted Prusik	Cure for the Common Cold Chain Break An increasing number of pharmaceutical products prescribed in the US -- including insulin, vaccines, biologics, chemotherapeutic agents, blood products, and many antibiotics -- are temperature-sensitive.
Outside August 2005 Monique Ryan	Drink and Thrive After years of faithfully guarding against the much-hyped perils of dehydration, recreational athletes were hit with some startling news this past spring: Drinking water can kill you.
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Willie D. Jones	Taking Body Temperature, Inside Out The radio pill, which acts as an internal thermometer providing continuous readings to help protect athletes from heatstroke, relies on a temperature-sensitive quartz crystal oscillator.
Salon.com August 20, 2002 Charles Taylor	Acceptable losses The 739 people killed by Chicago's 1995 heat wave were the victims of a mayor who believed in running his city like a business.
Sports Illustrated July 22, 2002 Phil Taylor	An invitation for disaster It makes no sense for NFL players to work out in the heat.
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Chemistry World July 10, 2012	Coolant to put electric cars in the fast lane Battery temperature is critical for performance and safety, but it's a tricky business cooling the large batteries needed for electric vehicles. Now, scientists in Germany have developed a new coolant which promises to cool batteries on hot days.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 Michael R. Palis	Advances in thermal management techniques for chassis design A new approach to thermal management involves separating the ambient environment and the operating electronics to keep out contaminants. A convenient way to do this is using compact air-to-air heat exchangers.
Food Processing June 2005 David Feder, R.D.	Bad science slams salt Again this year, salt was slammed by both the USDA and the Center for Science in the Public Interest -- in reports that had all of the trappings of legitimate science, but little, if any, substance.
AskMen.com August 15, 2003 Chris Rovny	Stay Cool At Work On Hot Summer Days Some simple yet effective ways to help you look good, but more importantly, help you keep cool when the heat is on.
AskMen.com July 10, 2012 Dave Golokhov	Heat And Mood It's been the warmest six months in United States history (on the mainland), and if the heat wave is getting to you, you're not the only one. According to a new study, we all get a bit cranky when it's hot out.
Food Engineering June 1, 2008	Keeping Sugar's Cool RT Group's new heat exchanger cooled 80 tons per hour of sugar from 110 F to 86 F using cooling water at 68 F.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2009 J.R. Wilson	Electronic thermal management is heading to the wall Systems designers who are used to boosting electronic system performance by adding ever-more transistors may have to rethink their design approaches.
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Scientific American October 2008 Steven Ashley	Cool Polymers: Toward the Microwave Oven Version of the Refrigerator Getting a bigger chill out of polymers that respond to electric fields.
Home Toys June 2002 Hope Howell	The Cinema Fan Air circulation is key and critical to the protection of the end-users investment against heat related failures. The Cinema Fan is designed to draw Hot Air out of projector boxes, A/V equipment cabinets and rooms, thereby protecting the home theater owner's investment.
Food Engineering January 10, 2006	Air heat exchanger Air/air heat exchanger provides cooling and environmental protection in industrial enclosures requiring internal cabinet cooling using ambient air.