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45-Minute Session

Guidelines for the Management of Heatstroke

Monday, February 24, 2025
1:30pm – 2:15pm Eastern Time
Location: W414
CE: 0.75

This session will present recently developed evidence-based guidelines on the management of heatstroke. Specific patient, intervention, comparison, outcome (PICO) questions were directed toward cooling strategies and medications that affect temperature management.

View more information in SCCM's Critical Care Literature Guide.

Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss evidence-based recommendations for cooling strategies in patients with heatstroke
  • Discuss evidence-based recommendations for the use of medications that directly or indirectly affect temperature in patients with heatstroke
  • Describe research gaps in the management of heatstroke

Presentations:

  • 1:30pm – 2:15pm Eastern Time
    Cooling Strategies

    Tina Palmieri, MCCM – Shriners Hospitals for Children Northern California

  • 1:30pm – 2:15pm Eastern Time
    Medications That Directly or Indirectly Affect Temperature

    Jeffrey F. Barletta, BS, PharmD, FCCM (he/him/his) – Midwestern University College of Pharmacy

  • 1:30pm – 2:15pm Eastern Time
    Research Gaps

    Heatherlee Bailey, MD, FAAEM, MCCM – Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center