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Diuretics
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B-Blockers
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Alpha agonists
Other Factors:
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rapid change in humidity and temperature
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heavy and/or constrictive clothing
Heat Stress to Heat Stroke: (see reference 24)
Exercise or Heat Exposure
HEAT STRESS
Acute
phase
Thermoregulatory
Heat
Shock
Response
response
response
Cutaneous
Splanchnic
Vasodilatation Vasodilatation
Exaggerated
Altered
Acute
phase
heat-shock
Response
response
Release
of
Production
of
Nitric
oxide
reactive
oxygen
& nitrogen species
Increased
intestinal
Permeability
Endotoxemia
Thermoregulatory
failure,
Circulatory
shock
and
HEAT STROKE
KNOWN CLINICAL EVIDENCE
Putative pathways
