Heat Illness Resources

APHC PRODUCTS

(Create an account to download or order the following products from the Health Information Products eCatalog.)

• Weather-Related Injury Reports: Hot Weather Injury Reports
• APHC Heat Injury and Illness Prevention
• HIP (Heat Injury Prevention) Pocket Guide card
• Start hydrated, stay hydrated! Urine Color Test
• Heat: Work/Rest Times and Fluid Replacement Poster
• APHC: Prevent Injuries from Sun Exposure Factsheet

Policy/Doctrine Updates

• TB MED 507 Heat Stress Control and Heat Casualty Management
  
• ALARACT 050/2018 – Heat Illness Prevention for 2018 Heat Season (needs to be password protected – AKO)
  
• Army Memorandum, Authorization to Roll Sleeves on the Army Combat Uniform (ACU) (June 2016)
• TRADOC Regulation 350-29 Prevention of Heat and Cold Casualties  
• OTSG/MEDCOM Memo, Heat Illness Prevention Program for the 2015 Heat Season  (Password protected - AKO)
• TRADOC Regulation 350-6 Enlisted Initial Entry Training Policies and Administration 
  

• All APHC Heat Injury Prevention Products
  
• TRADOC Heat Illness Prevention Program (CAC enabled)
  
• Heat Illness Prevention Info Paper 2019 (CAC enabled)
  
• Heat Illness Prevention for Leaders - 2019 (powerpoint)
  
• TRADOC CEB and ORS Policy (CAC enabled)
  
• Heat: Work/Rest Times and Fluid Replacement Poster
• APHC: Prevent Injuries from Sun Exposure Factsheet

• 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 
• APHC Cold Injury Prevention