ACSM Expert Consensus Statement on Exertional Heat Illness: Recognition, Management, and Return to Activity
At a glance
- Consensus statement
- 2023
- Current Sports Medicine Reports
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What it says
This ACSM expert consensus statement updates ACSM's guidance on exertional heat illness: how to recognize it, how to treat it and how to return athletes to activity afterward. It treats exertional heat stroke as a true medical emergency that can cause organ damage and death.
It calls for a coordinated chain of survival: recognizing suspected heat stroke early, stopping activity, and cooling the whole body rapidly, because, as with cardiac arrest or stroke, time lost is tissue lost. Outcomes appear to depend on how long body temperature stays dangerously high. Clinicians should know the definitions and differences between heat exhaustion, heat injury and heat stroke.
It stresses that most exertional heat illness is preventable when known risk factors are recognized and addressed through leadership, policy and medical care on site.
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