As Europe’s most severe heatwave on record continues, hospitals are admitting growing numbers of patients and emergency departments remain under intense pressure. Jim Cédric Hansen, Vice-President of the International Commission on Disaster Medicine in Rouen, explains why the human body struggles to cope with such extreme temperatures and why older people are particularly vulnerable, with prolonged exposure to intense heat potentially proving fatal.
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