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Heat stroke laboratory findings
Introduction
Overview
Overview
The laboratory finding scene in patients with a heat stroke include hypophosphatemia, hypokalemia, hypoglycemia, tension of arterial carbon dioxide is usually less than 20 mm Hg. Respiratory alkalosis is seen in non-exertional heat stroke where as lactic acidosis and respiratory alkalosis in exertional heat stroke.[1]
Laboratory Findings
Laboratory Findings
The following laboratory findings may be noticed in a patient with heat stroke:[1][2][3]
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- The tension of arterial carbon dioxide is usually less than 20 mm Hg
- Respiratory alkalosis in non-exertional heat stroke
- Lactic acidosis and respiratory alkalosis in exertional heat stroke
- Hypophosphatemia
- Hypokalemia
- Hypoglycemia (rare finding)
- Laboratory findings secondary to hemoconcentration
- Elevated creatinine kinase
- Elevated AST and ALT
Laboratory Findings after Cooling in Exertional Heat Stroke
References
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kim RC, Collins GH, Cho C, Ichikawa K, Givelber H (1980). “Heat stroke. Report of three fatal cases with emphasis on findings in skeletal muscle”. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 104 (7): 345–9. PMID 6893120.
- ↑ Leon LR, Bouchama A (2015). “Heat stroke”. Compr Physiol. 5 (2): 611–47. doi:10.1002/cphy.c140017. PMID 25880507.
- ↑ Macario AJ (1995). “Heat-shock proteins and molecular chaperones: implications for pathogenesis, diagnostics, and therapeutics”. Int J Clin Lab Res. 25 (2): 59–70. PMID 7663007.
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