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1 Army Public Health Center Hot Weather Injury Report For more informaon: APHC Heat Illness Prevenon Contact us: APHC Disease Epidemiology Division APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE; DISTRIBUTION UNLIMITED August 2018 Click on images to enlarge In August 2018, 356 heat illnesses were diagnosed (293 heat exhauson cases, 63 heat stroke cases). Heat illnesses, in general, decreased 26% in August 2018 when compared with July 2018. More specifically, reported heat exhausons deceased by 116 in August when compared to July, resulng in a 28% decrease. There were no significant differences in the amount of cases reported in August 2017 when compared to August 2018. In August 2018, 353 heat illnesses cases contained rank data. Of these 353 heat illnesses, 246 (70%) were among Junior Enlisted Service Members (JE SMs), 61 (17%) among Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs), 38 (11%) among Commissioned Officers (COs), three (<1%) among Warrant Officers (WOs), and two (<1%) among Cadets. Thirty of the heat illness cases were hospitalized. Of those 30 hospitalized cases, 19 (63%) were JE SMs, six (20%) were COs, and five (16%) were NCOs. Thirteen (43%) of the hospitalized cases were a result of heat exhauson, while the remaining 17 (57%) were the result of heat stroke. Table 1: Locaons where Heat Illnesses were Diagnosed - August 2018 Informaon displayed in this report is from the Defense Health Agency (DHA) Army Satellite Heat Illness Database. The database is a composite of four data sources: DRSi and Comprehensive Ambulatory/Professional Encounter Record (CAPER), Standard Inpaent Data Record (SIDR), TRICARE Encounter Data (TED), and Theater Medical Data Store (TMDS). Region Installation Number of Heat Illnesses Region Installation Number of Heat Illnesses Carlisle Barracks 3 Ft. Riley 10 Eglin Air Force Base 1 Ft. Sill 12 Ft. Benning 82 Joint (AF) San Antonio LAF-RAF-FSH 1 Ft. Bragg 57 McGregor Range 1 Ft. Campbell 7 Nellis Air Force Base 3 Ft. Drum 2 AHC Hohenfels 1 Ft. Gordon 3 AHC Shape 1 Ft. Jackson 20 AHC Vicenza 5 Ft. Knox 3 AHC Vilseck 1 Ft. Lee 1 AHC Camp Casey-Tongduchon 5 Ft. Rucker 1 AHC Camp Humphreys-Pyongtaek 3 Ft. Stewart 6 AHC-Camp Walker-Taegu 1 Joint (AF) Base Langley-Eustis 2 AHC-Yongsan Seoul 10 Walter Reed National Military Medical Center 1 Camp Humphreys 5 West Point Military Academy 6 Camp Zama 2 Ft. Bliss 7 Ft. Irwin 6 Ft. Carson 2 Ft. Wainwright 1 Ft. Hood 12 Joint (AF) Base Lewis-McChord 1 Ft. Leonard Wood 3 Schofield Barracks 1 Ft. Polk 65 Unknown Unknown Location(s) 2 Atlantic Central Central Europe Pacific
