Heat packs and cold packs can offer relief, but choosing between the two can be baffling. Which will be best for your particular pain? Dr. Rajiv Bahl, an emergency medicine physician in central ...

Traveling in cold ... person. Heat can be applied to transfer heat to major arteries - at the neck for the carotid, at the armpits for the brachial, at the groin for the femoral, at the palms of the ...

Meanwhile, they will use rapid-cooling techniques including immersing the whole body in cold water, or applying wet ice packs covering the whole body. Heat-related illnesses, such as heat stroke and ...

Exertional heat stroke (EHS ... Cooling measures were instituted immediately using 1500 ml of ice-cold saline solution and 500 ml of colloid solution intravenously (i.v.) and ice packs were applied to ...

Staying productive ensures the workplace is proactive and safe regardless of how cold it gets outside. Corporate executives and safety managers must recognize that winter heat stroke is a real ...

About 2,000 heat-related deaths are thought to occur ... need to cool down quickly is to immerse your hands in cold water. Putting ice packs in areas where there are major blood vessels ...

That's why WebMD put together a guide on how to avoid many common heat- and ... you up for heat stroke." It's not just heat that makes summer fun problematic, she says. "Cold is big problem ...

Meanwhile, they will use rapid-cooling techniques including immersing the whole body in cold water, or applying wet ice packs covering the whole body. Heat-related illnesses, such as heat stroke ...