A new toolkit for patients, providers and clinics provides guidance to prepare for or respond to weeks of prolonged heat, as well as more fires, hurricanes and other weather linked to climate change.
. Many of the suggestions are the same for all patients: watch for heat alerts, stay hydrated, and talk to your provider about whether heat may affect prescribed drugs that you take. But some tips and actions vary by disease.
Dr. Rebecca Rogers, a primary care physician at Cambridge Health Alliance who reviewed the toolkit, says physicians are already packing a lot into short visits. Rogers says her health care system’s medical record doesn’t send alerts to patients who are most at risk for complications due to heat, “but that’s a really exciting idea to me.” Bernstein says more work is needed to individualize heat risks based on where patients live and other factors.
Bernstein says it makes sense to focus on what’s useful for community health centers because they care for many of the people most in danger from the effects of climate change.
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