About this episode

Ross Hemingway discusses exertional heat illness and its management in athletes.

Ross Hemingway, OBE, is a Sport & Exercise Medicine Practitioner at the Commando Training Centre for the Royal Marines. His clinical expertise centres on exertional collapse, in particular the prevention, acute management, and rehabilitation of exertional heat illness (EHI) in elite, amateur, and tactical athletes, and is recognised as a UK national expert in this field. Hemingway is also a member of the UK Heat Illness Advisory Group and a contributing author to the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care’s (FPHC) UK consensus statement on the management of Exertional Heat Illness. In this interview, Hemingway breaks down the theory of heat illness, how it happens, prevalence, and the best ways of dealing with EHI during exercise. Alongside his clinical practice, he is also the founder of Nereus Medical Ltd and inventor of the patented I-CWIK, a lightweight, robust and clinically proven system developed to provide effective cold-water immersion of heat stroke casualties in the pre-hospital and hospital environment. Become a Supporter of The Real Science of Sport , and for the price of a coffee, or a gel, you get a bonus Applied episode every week, ad-free shows, and the best cycling…

People in this episode

Hosts: Professor Ross Tucker, Mike Finch

Guest: Ross Hemingway

Topics covered

• exertional heat illness
• heat management
• sports medicine
• athlete safety
• cold-water immersion

Keywords

• heat illness
• exercise
• athlete management
• rehabilitation
• cold-water immersion

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Commando Training Centre for the Royal Marines, UK Heat Illness Advisory Group, Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care, Nereus Medical Ltd

Products: I-CWIK

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