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Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Heat Illness
• Infections (meningitis, encephalitis, sepsis)
• Head trauma
• Epilepsy
• Thyroid storm
• Acute cocaine intoxication
• Malignant hyperthermia
• Heat exhaustion can be differentiated from heat stroke by the following:
• Essentially intact mental function and lack of significant fever in heat exhaustion
• Mild or absent increases in creatine kinase (CK), aspartate transaminase (AST), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) in heat exhaustion
• Infections (meningitis, encephalitis, sepsis)
• Head trauma
• Epilepsy
• Thyroid storm
• Acute cocaine intoxication
• Malignant hyperthermia
• Heat exhaustion can be differentiated from heat stroke by the following:
• Essentially intact mental function and lack of significant fever in heat exhaustion
• Mild or absent increases in creatine kinase (CK), aspartate transaminase (AST), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) in heat exhaustion
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