“The burns can cook their brains or spinal cord, peripheral nerves, cause liver failure, kidney failure, bowels not to work correctly. So we have to deal with that too, the systemic manifestations of that, which can be really severe and oftentimes end up causing more problems for patients than the actual burn does.”
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/28/phoenix-arizona-heatwave-burns-sidewalks-climate-crisis #contactburns #heatwaves #ClimateCrisis #globalwarming

https://grist.org/extreme-heat/in-phoenix-emergency-room-doctors-confront-the-dangers-of-extreme-heat/

#UnLivable: physicians in Arizona have been inundated with patients suffering from #heatrelated #illnesses, but they’ve also been seeing higher volumes of patients with #chronicdiseases exacerbated by #heat. And #burnunits in the state are tending to people with severe #contactburns from #blazingasphalt and other hot surfaces. 

#keepitintheground