What are the differential diagnoses for Heat Stroke?

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Robert S Helman, MD Director, Premier Care of Great Neck Urgent Care Center

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Laurie Robin Grier, MD Medical Director of MICU, Professor of Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Anesthesiology and Obstetrics/Gynecology, Fellowship Director for Critical Care Medicine, Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Science Center at Shreveport

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