Heat In Parked Car Turns Deadly In 5-10 Minutes

From KETV.com:

"On an 80-degree day this month, a Children's Hospital and Medical Center expert placed a gauge inside a car to show how fast the environment becomes deadly.

The gauge read 91.4 degrees when first placed inside the parked car. With the windows up, the Greenhouse Effect kicked up the heat at a critical rate. Not even five minutes later, the temperature was climbing past 99 degrees.

At 10 minutes in the car, the temperature was up to 106.2 degrees -- hot enough to kill a person."

References:
Heat In Parked Car Turns Deadly In Minutes. KETV.com.
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Health News of the Day

Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day.

• Patients Visit With Their Physicians Online as More Insurers Begin Paying for Digital Diagnoses. Bad idea: "How to be a digital doctor and diagnose conjunctivitis via email" http://bit.ly/KcUmB
  
  
• New pneumonia score - SCAP (developed in Spain) outperforms other scores in predicting severity http://bit.ly/18eQyn
  
  
• 36 Hippocratic Aphorisms of Nephrologic Interest - the authors of the article are 3 Greek doctors http://bit.ly/OSn3W
  
  
• In the U.S., every horse receives Lasix (furosemide) diuretic on the day of the race http://bit.ly/HAla5

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