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Environmental Emergencies

Environmental Emergencies is a category of acute medical conditions arising from extreme environmental exposures—such as heat, cold, altitude, submersion, or envenomation—that disrupt physiological homeostasis and require prompt recognition and intervention within prehospital, pediatric, and emergency care settings.

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The 2006 California Heat Wave: Impacts on Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits

Kim Knowlton, Miriam Rotkin-Ellman, Galatea King et al. · Environmental Health Perspectives · 2008 · 769 citations · Full text

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The 1986 Lake Nyos Gas Disaster in Cameroon, West Africa

George W. Kling, M. A. Clark, Glen N. Wagner et al. · Science · 1987 · 382 citations

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Impacts and Responses to the 1995 Heat Wave: A Call to Action

Stanley A. Changnon, Kenneth E. Kunkel, Beth C. Reinke · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 1996 · 366 citations

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Impact of two recent extreme heat episodes on morbidity and mortality in Adelaide, South Australia: a case-series analysis

Monika Nitschke, Graeme Tucker, Alana Hansen et al. · Environmental Health · 2011 · 334 citations · Full text

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Heat-related Emergency Hospitalizations for Respiratory Diseases in the Medicare Population

G. Brooke Anderson, Francesca Dominici, Yun Wang et al. · American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine · 2013 · 273 citations · Full text

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  1. AV
    A. Vaidyanathan

    National Center for Environmental Health, United States

    8 publications · 317 citations

    8

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  2. LL
    Laurie Laybourn‐Langton

    Danish Medical Association, Denmark

    7 publications · 400 citations

    7

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  3. SH
    Stephen Hancocks

    Danish Medical Association, Denmark

    6 publications · 335 citations

    6

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  4. P‎
    Peush ‎Sahni

    All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India

    6 publications · 335 citations

    6

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  5. TB
    Thomas Benfield

    Hvidovre Hospital, Denmark

    6 publications · 335 citations

    6

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Institutions

582

  1. Queensland University of Technology

    Brisbane, Australia

    11 h-index

    33 publications

    1.5K citations

  2. National Center for Environmental Health

    Atlanta, United States

    9 h-index

    23 publications

    1K citations

  3. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    9 h-index

    22 publications

    1K citations

  4. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

    Atlanta, United States

    9 h-index

    28 publications

    1.3K citations

  5. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chapel Hill, United States

    6 h-index

    10 publications

    684 citations

  6. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    6 h-index

    13 publications

    452 citations

  7. Boston University

    Boston, United States

    6 h-index

    25 publications

    3K citations

  8. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    376 citations

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  2. PubMed

    Repository · 15 publications · 318 citations

    11

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  3. Journal of Emergency Medicine

    10 publications · 426 citations

    10

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  4. The Science of The Total Environment

    10 publications · 447 citations

    10

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  5. JAMA

    9 publications · 424 citations

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