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BET 4: IN PATIENTS WITH CLASSIC HEAT STROKE DOES ADDING TREATMENT WITH DANTROLENE IMPROVE OUTCOME?
  1. Rosa McNamara, Emergency Registrar,
  2. Damien Ryan, Specialist Registrar,
  3. Gerard McCarthy, Consultant
  1. Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emj.2008.061705

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      Report by Rosa McNamara, Emergency Registrar

      Search checked by Damien Ryan, Specialist Registrar

      and Gerard McCarthy, Consultant

      Institution: Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland

      CLINICAL SCENARIO

      A 53-year-old man is brought in by ambulance from a nearby building site after a collapse, on an uncharacteristically hot day. In the resuscitation room he has a Glasgow coma score of 3. He is found to be warm and dry and to have a temperature of 42.3°C. You diagnose heat stroke and wonder if dantrolene would be a useful additional therapy …

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