Disease Information for Heat stroke (Clinical Manifestations)
apoplexy heat, Heat apoplexy, heat apoplexy or hyperpyrexia, Heat hyperpyrexia, Heat stroke, Heat stroke (disorder), Heat stroke unspecified, Heat stroke unspecified (disorder), Heat Strokes, Heatstroke, Heatstrokes, hyperpyrexia heat, Stroke Heat, Strokes Heat, Thermoplegia
Overexposure to heat or overexertion most common in old age or infancy but especially in the elderly, accompanied by convulsions, delusions, or coma. It is treated by cooling the body and replacing fluids and salts. (From Segen, Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992, p282)
(Edit)
Available only to registered users.
Clinical Manifestations
- Signs & Symptoms
- Plethora/Red face/Ruddy look
- Bounding pulse
- Cardiac Symptoms/Signs
- Low Blood Pressure
- Orthostatic drop in blood pressure
- Postural Hypotension Non-neural
- Pulse pressure/wide
- Signs of Poor Perfusion
- Tachycardia/Fast heart rate
- Cutaneous mottling
- Decreased sweating/Absent sweating
- Diaphoresis profuse/active sweating/acute
- Dry skin/scaling dry skin
- Excess Sweating Children
- Facial erythema
- Facial flushing/Beet red
- Flushing
- Hyperhidrosis/Chronic sweating excess
- Petechiae/Petechial rash
- Skin hot/dry/flushed
- Skin warm/hot diffuse
- Sweating Excess Perspiration
- Excess Thirst in Elderly
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Vomiting in Children
- Vomiting in Elderly
- Muscle Pain
- Myalgias
- Tender or painful muscles/Myalgias
- Warm/Extremities dry/warm to touch
- Weak/Weak as a kitten (symptom)
- Altered mental status Mental status change
- Clonus/bilateral ankle (sustained)
- CNS symptoms/signs
- Cognitive defect
- Cognitive deficit/mild
- Confusion/agitation on exam
- Confusion/Disoriented
- Delirium
- Delirium/Agitated delirium
- Dizziness/Dizzy
- Drowsiness/somnolence
- Dysarthria
- Fluctuating consciousness
- Headache
- Impaired judgement/signs
- Irritability/short tempered
- Seizures
- Slow speech
- Stupor/poor reponse to stimulus
- Sudden unconsciousness
- Unconscious/Narcosis status
- Vertigo
- Weakness/Diffuse motor loss
- Rapid Breathing
- Tachypnea/Increased respiratory rate
- Psychotic behavior/symptomatic
- Oliguria/Decreased urine output
- Acutely ill patient/signs
- Collapse/Prostration
- Enervated/extreme acute fatigue
- Fatigue
- Fatigue Tiredness Exhaustion
- Fever
- Fever and Normal Sed Rate
- Fever Febrile Possible
- Fever, high
- Flu-Like Syndrome
- High body temperature
- Malaise
- Multiple organ/system failure patient
- Poikylothermia/variable temperature setting
- Weakness
- Weakness non-neuromuscular/systemic
- Weakness/wooziness/standing quickly
- Clinical Presentation & Variations
- Disease Progression
- Course/Acute
- Course/Acute only
- Course/Catastrophic presentation/onset
- Signs & Symptoms
What is DiagnosisPro?
DiagnosisPro is a free, accurate and time saving differential diagnosis tool that reminds you instantly of diagnostic possibilities and minimizes medical errors.
Overview
- Covering over 15,000 disease manifestations such as symptoms, labs, ECG, X-ray, CT-Scan, MRI, Ultrasound, pathology, microbiology results and more.
- Compiled from hundreds of world's most respected medical resources covering internal medicine, emergency medicine, pediatrics, office OB-GYN and more.
- Designed for physicians by physicians to enhance quality of care and prevent diagnostic errors.
- Detailed disease information for more than 7000 diseases.
- Disease comparison tool to compare any two diseases side by side.
Join Our Community
Suggest improvement to our data or add your interesting cases to share with tens of thousands of other physicians worldwide.
