Heat Illness Resources

APHC Products

• Weather-Related Injury Surveillance Reports
• Factsheet: Heat Injury and Illness Prevention
• Factsheet: Prevent Injuries from Sun Exposure
• Heat Illness Prevention Products e-Catalog 
• Heat Injury Prevention (HIP) Pocket Guide (pending update)
  
• Start hydrated, stay hydrated! Urine Color Test Card
• Heat: Work/Rest Times and Fluid Replacement Poster
• APHC Cold Injury Prevention

Policy/Doctrine Updates

• Updated: TB MED 507 Heat Stress Control and Heat Casualty Management​ (Apr 2022)
  
• ALARACT 050/2018 – Heat Illness Prevention for 2018 Heat Season 
  
• Authorization to Roll ​Sleeves on the Army Combat Uniform (ACU) article (2016) and DA PAM 670-1​
  
• TRADOC Regulation 350-29 Prevention of Heat and Cold Casualties 
• TRADOC Regulation 350-6 Enlisted Initial Entry Training Policies and Administration
  
• TRADOC Heat Illness Training Products (CAC enabled)
  
• Exertional Rhabdomyolysis: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention  (Knapik et al, 2016)
• Statement of the 3rd International Exercise-Associated Hyponatremia Consensus Development Conference  (Hew-Butler, 2015)
  
• Within-Year Exertional Heat Illness Incidence in US Army Soldiers, 2008-2012  (APHC(P), 2015)
• Impact of Arm Immersion Cooling during Ranger Training on Exertional Heat Illness and Treatment Costs  (DeGroot et al, 2015)
• Exertional Heat Illness and Hyponatremia: An Epidemiological Prospective  (Carter III, 2008)
• Predictors of Hospitalization in Male Marine Corps Recruits with Exertional Heat Illness  (Gardner, 2004)
  
• Hyponatremia Associated with Overhydration in U.S. Army Trainees  (O'Brien, 2001)
  
• U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine