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Illness finder is a diagnostic medicine tool for educational purpose that looks up your patients' health conditions or symptoms and diagnosis and find diseases or illnesses based on chosen gender, age, risk factors, illness, signs, symptoms and prevalence. Illnessfinder is inspired by Evidence based medicine (EMB) and healthcare that aims to apply the best (most reliable) knowledge that is available at decision time. Illnessfinder aims to free up time for the therapeutic dialogue and ensure quality at the evidence based practice, uniting proven medical findings and clinical evidence with systematised data technology.
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Disorder, Heat Stress,Disorders, Heat Stress,Heat Stress Disorder,Stress Disorder, Heat,Stress Disorders, Heat,Heat Stress Syndromes,Heat Stress Syndrome,Stress Syndrome, Heat,Stress Syndromes, Heat,Syndrome, Heat Stress,Syndromes, Heat Stress,Heat Cramps,Cramp, Heat,Cramps, Heat,Heat Cramp
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Heat Stress Disorders: A group of conditions due to overexposure to or overexertion in excess environmental temperature. It includes heat cramps, which are non-emergent and treated by salt replacement; HEAT EXHAUSTION, which is more serious, treated with fluid and salt replacement; and HEAT STROKE, a condition most commonly affecting extremes of age, especially the elderly, accompanied by convulsions, delusions, or coma and treated with cooling the body and replacement of fluids and salts. (From Segen, Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992)
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