| 17th | Top severe weather phenomena |
| Question 1: Management of heat syncope consists of cooling and rehydration of the patient using ________ (sport drinks) or isotonic IV fluids. | |||
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| Question 2: According to climatologist David Jones the likelihood of heat waves occurring is expected to increase with ________. | |||
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| Question 3: Heat edema presents as a transient swelling of the hands, feet, and ankles and is generally secondary to increased ________ secretion, which enhances water retention. | |||
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| Question 4: A formal, ________ definition from the Glossary of Meteorology is:[4] | |||
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| Question 5: Symptoms may include headache, nausea, and vomiting, dizziness, ________, malaise, and myalgia. | |||
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| Question 6: Heat syncope is believed to result from intense sweating, which leads to ________, followed by peripheral vasodilation and reduced venous blood return in the face of decreased vasomotor control. | |||
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| Question 7: The chronically ill and elderly are often taking prescription medications (e.g., diuretics, anticholinergics, antipsychotics, and ________) that interfere with the body's ability to dissipate heat. | |||
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| Question 8: A shot of tropical heat drawn unusually far southward hiked temperatures 22 degrees above normal in the city of ________ and across the northern-centre regions of the country. | |||
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| Question 9: If infection occurs a regimen of ________ is required. | |||
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| Question 10: Temperatures that people from a hotter climate consider normal can be termed a heat wave in a cooler area if they are outside the normal ________ pattern for that area. | |||
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