Mirchandani H G, McDonald G, Hood I C, Fonseca C
Medical Examiner's Office, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 1996 Jun;17(2):106-8. doi: 10.1097/00000433-199606000-00004.
A study of heat-related deaths associated with the 1993 heat wave in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was conducted. Most of these deaths were in the susceptible elderly with preexisting natural diseases who lived alone without air conditioning in upstairs bedrooms with windows shut, thus creating an even hotter environment. These excessive deaths under such conditions did not meet the standard clinical criteria for hyperthermia because of varying postmortem intervals. Therefore, the authors stress the utility of a postmortem definition of heat-related death to better define the magnitude of health risk posed by hot weather and warn public health and other agencies to take preventative measures.
针对宾夕法尼亚州费城1993年热浪期间与热相关的死亡情况进行了一项研究。这些死亡案例中的大多数发生在易感的老年人身上，他们患有先天性疾病，独自居住在楼上没有空调的卧室里，窗户紧闭，从而营造出更加炎热的环境。由于死后间隔时间不同，这些在这种情况下的过多死亡案例不符合体温过高的标准临床标准。因此，作者强调了热相关死亡的死后定义对于更好地界定炎热天气所带来的健康风险程度的作用，并警告公共卫生及其他机构采取预防措施。
