Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Unprecedented heat-related deaths during the 2003 heat wave in Paris: consequences on emergency departments. | Available online http content 8 1 1 Commentary Unprecedented heat-related deaths during the 2003 heat wave in Paris consequences on emergency departments Jean-Franọois Dhainaut1 Yann-Erick Claessens2 Christine Ginsburg3 and Bruno Riou4 Professor Emergency and Intensive Care Department Cochin Port-Royal University Hospital AP-HP University Paris 5 France 2Junior Consultant Emergency and Intensive Care Department Cochin Port-Royal University Hospital AP-HP University Paris 5 France 3Senior Consultant Emergency and Intensive Care Department Cochin Port-Royal University Hospital AP-HP University Paris 5 France 4Professor Emergency Department Pitié-Salpétrière University Hospital AP-HP University of Paris 6 France Correspondence Jean-Franọois Dhainaut dhainaut@ Published online 4 December 2003 Critical Care 2004 8 1-2 DOI cc2404 This article is online at http content 8 1 1 2004 BioMed Central Ltd Print ISSN 1364-8535 Online ISSN 1466-609X Abstract In August 2003 France sustained an unprecedented heat wave that resulted in 14 800 excess deaths. The consequences were maximal in the Paris area. The Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris reported more than 2600 excess emergency department visits 1900 excess hospital admissions and 475 excess deaths despite a rapid organization. Indeed simple preventice measures before hospital admissions are only able to reduce mortality which mostly occurred at home and in nursing homes. Keywords emergency medicine heat stroke heat wave hyperthermia It is clear from the atmospheric research reports that there has been an increase in the global mean temperature since the start of the twentieth century 1 . The number of days exceeding the 85th percentile threshold value in summer for the apparent mean temperature in the United States has increased since 1948. This temperature increase is often responsible for major impacts on health 2 3 as evidenced by the 1995 heat wave that resulted in .
