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| Clinical Practice Guideline for the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management of Exertional Heat Illness. June 2024 |
The CHAMP website also includes printable heat injury charts for your unit to replace the old fashioned outdated ones on walls and in emails.
Speaking of outdated, remember that heat stroke can present WITH sweating. It’s a myth that it will always be lacking sweat and that doesn’t make sense in a soldier who has been sweating with a ruck and body armor. Use Altered Mental Status + Temperature to guide you, as noted in the CPG. What if you don’t have a thermometer? Dont worry, this CPG accounted for this too. Everything from Prehospital to ICU and downgrading to ward.
Should we just put ice sheets on top of our patient? Or should we do the “TACO” method with a tarp under? What about “just” putting ice in junctional injuries? Answers found within. 
Wouldn’t be a NGCM post without a poll, so vote on our instagram:
If you had to do medical coverage for a large unit conducting an 18 mile ruck or similar lengthy movement during a hot summer, what is the best method that YOU could feasibly prepare for? (Not asking what is the BEST period, just what you could do, or did this past summer)
Maybe discuss below creative ways to combine being able to juggle mobility with care. 
https://champcatalog.usuhs.edu/hprc/whec/whec-guides
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