hyperthermia

Ensure pets have continuous access to clean, cool water and adequate shade to avoid prolonged heat exposure.

Persons who experience any signs or symptoms of heat-related illness should seek appropriate medical attention.

The Ministry of Health, Wellness and Nutrition urges the public not to underestimate the health effects of prolonged heat.

Heat-related illness is largely preventable when appropriate precautions are taken.

The Ministry will continue to monitor the situation and the public is encouraged to pay attention to official weather and public health advisories and to adjust activities accordingly as conditions evolve.

For further information or public health guidance, please contact the Office of the Chief Medical Officer at 468-5309.

Now we're moving into a different but equally practical bedside question.

When a dog or cat is hot, is this true fever, non-febrile hyperthermia, or something immediately life-threatening? The material for today is inspired by Small Animal Critical Care Medicine, 3rd edition, specifically Chapter 10, Hyperthermia and Fever, by James Miller.

This is honestly one of my favorite chapters in all of ECC.

It's incredibly practical and really forces you to think more critically about something we see every single day.

At the end, we'll review them again during the rapid-fire board review so you can check your recall and reinforce them one more time.

let's start with the first mental reset.

Hyperthermia and fever are not synonyms.

Hyperthermia means the core body temperature is above the accepted normal range for that species.

You don't need a veterinarian to testify that this was torture because the state has already told you it's torture.

Hyperthermia is a torture crime.

But I bet you can't find a vet anywhere that would sit on the stand and not tell you that dying of hyperthermia is not a torturous, horrific, painful way to go.

No, I'm sure they would not.

hot.

Hyperthermia.

Yeah, so there's hypothermia and hyperthermia.

Hypothermia is where you're cold.

Hyperthermia is where you're hot.

So cancer in general, cancer cells don't have the ability to regulate themselves once the temperature gets up above 102.3.

So it forces them to sell them.