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[Heat stroke in hospital patients during the summer 2003 heat wave: a nosocomial disease].
Presse Med
February 2006
Service d'accueil des urgences, Centre hospitalier et universitaire de Nantes.
Objective: We investigated patients who died in our institution during the August 2003 heat wave, to determine whether some in hospital patients actually died of heat stroke.
Methods: Records of all patients who died in our tertiary care hospital between 6-15 August 2003 were analyzed retrospectively. Heat stroke was considered the cause of death when the following criteria were met: body temperature higher than 40.