Heat Related Illness Heat Cramps Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke are conditions caused by over exposure to heat loss of fluids and electrolytes How they come up with what temperature it really feels like ID: 779727
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Environmental Emergencies
Slide2Heat Related Illness
Heat Cramps, Heat Exhaustion, and Heat Stroke are conditions caused by over exposure to heat, loss of fluids and electrolytes.
Slide3How they come up with what temperature it really feels like…
They take the air temperature and cross reference it to the humidity to come up with what it feels like outside
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Slide4Heat Related Illness
Heat Cramps
Heat Exhaustion
Least severe, first signals that the body is having trouble with the heat
Painful muscle spasms in legs or abdomen
More severe, often affects athletes, firefighters, construction workers, and factory workers.
Cool, moist, pale, ashen, or flushed skin, headache, nausea, dizziness or weakness and exhaustion
Slide5Heat Related Illness
Heat Stroke
Most severe, least common. Occurs when people ignore the signs of heat exhaustion.
Body stops functioning correctly, red skin, changes in consciousness, dry or moist skin, weak or rapid pulse, rapid, shallow breathing.
Slide6Caring for Heat-Related Emergencies
Heat Cramps
Move to a cool place, cool water to drink, lightly stretch muscles and massage area.
Heat Exhaustion
Loosen clothing, fan person, have circulating air while applying wet towels, small amounts of water to drink, call 911 if condition doesn’t improve
Heat Stroke
Call 911
Give care until help arrives
Slide7Cold Related Emergencies
Frostbite and Hypothermia are two types of cold related emergencies.
Slide8They take the air temperature and cross reference it to the wind to come up with what it feels like outside.
Slide9Cold Related Emergencies
Frostbite
Hypothermia
the freezing of body parts exposed to the cold.
Lack of feeling in the affected area, skin appears to be waxy, cold to the touch, discolored(white, yellow, or blue)
the entire body cools because it’s ability to keep warm fails.
Shivering, numbness, glassy stare, indifference, and loss of consciousness.
Slide10Caring for Cold Related Emergencies
Frostbite
Remove wet clothing and jewelry, soak frostbitten area in warm water, cover with dry sterile dressing, do not warm area if in danger of refreezing.
Hypothermia
Move to warm place, check
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, remove wet clothing, slowly warm the person, handle carefully.
Slide11Bites and Stings
In rare incidences bites and stings can cause serious illness or even death in people who are sensitive to venom
Slide12Insect Stings
Most of the time insect stings are harmless. If the person is allergic, an insect sting can lead to anaphylaxis, a life-threatening condition.
Slide13Tick-Borne Diseases
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Spread by wood ticks
Western US
Babesia
Infection
Spread by deer ticks and black-legged ticks
Northeast and upper Midwest regions
Ehrlichiosis
Spread by lone star tick
Southern, eastern, and south-central US
Lyme Disease
Spread by deer ticks and black-legged ticks
Allover the US
Slide14Other things to look out for:
Mosquito Bites
Spider Bites
Scorpion Stings
Venomous Snake Bites
Animal Bites
Marine Life Stings
Slide15Poisonous Plants
Slide16Lightning
Causes more deaths in the United States than any other weather hazard.
FYI:
Lightning travels up to speeds of 300 miles per second