Heat and Cold Emergency Situations

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4. develops when a bodies cooling mechanism is overwhelmed

8. one symptom of heat exhaustion

9. the general cooling of the entire body

10. a signal of frostbite

11. freezing of body tissues

12. a syptom of hypothermia

13. most common form of heat related illness

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1. lethal irregular heartbeat

2. one way to treat a heat related illness

3. putting dry clothes on a person

5. never do this with the afffected area from frostbite

6. a group of people who are at an increased risk of a heat related illness

7. a painful spasm of skeletal muscles

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