Volume 45 | Issue 1 Article 1 1983 A Review of Heat Stroke and Its Complications in the Canine Renee L. Larson Iowa State University Robert W. Carithers Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iowastate_veterinarian Part of the Small or Companion Animal Medicine Commons, and the Veterinary Physiology Commons Recommended Citation Larson, Renee L. and Carithers, Robert W. (1983) "A Review of Heat Stroke and Its Complications in the Canine," Iowa State University Veterinarian: Vol. 45 : Iss. 1 , Article 1. Available at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iowastate_veterinarian/vol45/iss1/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Iowa State University Veterinarian by an authorized editor of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. A Review of Heat Stroke and Its Complications in the Canine Renee L. Larson, BS * Robert W. Carithers, DVM, MS, PhD** SUMMARY most obvious prerequisite is a high en A review of heat stroke and its complications vironmental temperature. When the ambient is presented. The etiology, physiology, clinical temperature increases above 86°F, a rise in in signs, secondary complications, diagnosis, ternal body temperature results. Dogs can treatment, necropsy results and prevention of tolerate rising environmental temperature heat stroke are discussed. A clinical case is quite well. However, when the body tempera then presented to illustrate the disorder of heat ture exceeds 104°F a breakdown of the stroke. animal's thermal equilibrium begins.