TY - JOUR
T1 - Exertional Heat Stroke, the Return to Play Decision, and the Role of Heat Tolerance Testing
T2 - A Clinician's Dilemma
AU - O'Connor, Francis G.
AU - Heled, Yuval
AU - Deuster, Patricia A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 by the American College of Sports Medicine.
PY - 2018/7/1
Y1 - 2018/7/1
N2 - Exertional heat stroke (EHS) is a leading cause of preventable morbidity and mortality among both athletes and warfighters. Since current evidence suggests that the history of a prior event is an important risk factor for an EHS event, sports medicine providers can find post-EHS return to play/duty (RTP/D) decisions challenging. Heat tolerance testing is a tool that can help with such decisions by exposing the subject to a given heat load under controlled conditions to assess the presence or absence of heat tolerance. This special communication explores the challenge of the RTP/D after an EHS event and the potential role of heat tolerance testing in making this clinical decision.
AB - Exertional heat stroke (EHS) is a leading cause of preventable morbidity and mortality among both athletes and warfighters. Since current evidence suggests that the history of a prior event is an important risk factor for an EHS event, sports medicine providers can find post-EHS return to play/duty (RTP/D) decisions challenging. Heat tolerance testing is a tool that can help with such decisions by exposing the subject to a given heat load under controlled conditions to assess the presence or absence of heat tolerance. This special communication explores the challenge of the RTP/D after an EHS event and the potential role of heat tolerance testing in making this clinical decision.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85049795910&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1249/JSR.0000000000000502
DO - 10.1249/JSR.0000000000000502
M3 - Article
C2 - 29994825
AN - SCOPUS:85049795910
SN - 1537-890X
VL - 17
SP - 244
EP - 248
JO - Current Sports Medicine Reports
JF - Current Sports Medicine Reports
IS - 7
ER -