KROK 1 2013 – Question 102 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
At the end of the working day a worker of a hot work shop has been delivered to a hospital. The patient complains of a headache, dizziness, nausea, general weakness. Objectively: the patient is conscious, his skin is hyperemic, dry, hot to the touch. Heart rate is of 130/min. Respiration is rapid, superficial. What disorder of thermoregulation is most likely to have occurred in this patient?
- A. Increased heat transfer and heat production
- B. Increased heat production with no changes to the heat transfer
- C. Reduced heat transfer
- D. Reduced heat production with no changes to the heat transfer
- E. Increased heat transfer and reduced heat production
Hint
Dry, hot, flushed skin and a fast pulse in a hot workshop: think about whether the problem lies in how the body gives off heat or in how it makes heat, and what sweating would normally do.
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