Exertional Heat Illness: Deployability, Risk Assessment, and Clinical Management
Abstract
An evidence-based approach for identifying, monitoring and predicting current and future EHI is critically needed to ensure the health and safety of 850,000 National Guard and Reserve Service Members and to assure efficient resource use.10 This study’s main objective is to expand the SF-600 used to determine deployability into an evidence-based tool that includes immediate EHI Severity (none, mild, low, moderate, high and death) and the Deployability Risk Score (low, moderate and high risk)17. The revised SF-600 (SF-600R) will also include evidence based practice guidelines for immediate treatment by medics and for management of future EHI risk for service members who don PPE multiple times. Our long-term goal is to protect the health of our service members and reduce EHI morbidity through clinical screening for EHI risk and early detection of EHI vulnerability. Our central premise is that EHI and EHI risk can be identified and ameliorated through the use of the SF-600R. The rationale underlying this proposed research is that the SF600R will provide a working tool to recogize immediate EHI episodes, and be able to provide documentation to score factors that may contribute to future EHI risk. There is a critical need to employ an evidence based tool that informs medics of potential EHI risks12 and provides practical recommendations for managing heat injury and illness in the field.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Oct 18, 2018
- Source ID
- HU00011810043
Entities
People
- Denise Smart
Organizations
- Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
- Washington State University