Practice Management
Soccer’s premier World Cup tournament kicks off this week in 16 cities across North America, and urgent care clinicians near the host sites should be prepared for a potential surge in patient visits, including visits for heat-related illness, such as heat stroke and heat exhaustion. More than one-third of the scheduled soccer matches will take place in locations forecasted to experience high summer temperatures and humidity, according to new analysis from NPR. When analyzing 20 …
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A large study of 55,200 emergency department (ED) visits among adults aged 65 years and older found that heat-related risk varies by population, and higher-than-average “feels like” temperatures in the summer months are associated with greater all-cause ED use for EDs with predominantly Medicaid-covered populations. Researchers analyzed visits from May 1 to September 30 between 2022 to 2024 at 2 New York hospitals and compared the data, as published in JAMA Network Open. At a …
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Urgent message: The urgent care provider’s most critical role in heat illness is to identify risk factors and the cause, to cool and hydrate the patient, assess for complications, and educate the patient in the hope of preventing a more serious exposure. Bridget Dyer, MD, Samuel Keim, MD, and Peter Rosen, MD Heat illness occurs when external heat conditions and internal heat production overwhelm the ability of the body to dissipate heat. Evaporation of sweat …
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