At 42 degrees Celsius the body of Olindo Zuanon, a 63 year old baker who officiated in the Italian town of Santa Giustina in Colle, in the province of Padua, in the Italian region of Veneto, who would die shortly after.
The analysis of death, as explained by the Italian newspaper the messengerciting medical sources: a heart attack caused by heat strokeadded to the heart problems that Zuanon previously suffered.
Despite the Zuanon’s previous pathologieswho had been implanted with a subcutaneous defibrillator last October to stabilize his heart rhythm, the heat that has been reached in Veneto in recent weeks has not helped, as has also been indicated from Padova Oggi.
Were just over eight thirty in the morning of July 18 when Zuanon had felt unwell, accompanied by his wife Michelle, who was the one who made the call to the emergency services. Appearing at the bakery, cardiac resuscitation tasks began in the bakery itself, but the baker had to be transferred to the hospital in Castelfranco Veneto, where he would die shortly after.
The news, although it is distant because it is from Italy, is relevant because of the incidence than heat stroke have in certain professions already exposed to high temperatures. People often talk about open spaces, but certain environments —especially a bread oven— can still be a much bigger mousetrap for these assumptions.
The truth is that, with a climograph in hand, the temperature in Padua does not usually exceed 25º Celsius on average during the months of July and August, far from what is currently happening when reaching peaks up to 35º and 36º in the central hours of the day or equaling those 25º on average first thing in the morning.
First aid kit wall cabinet with endowment 280 mm x 250 mm x 100 mm equipped with various items to carry out the first cures in case of emergency, First aid kit
The other reality, transferred to Spain, is that the deaths at work due to heat stroke They are more frequent than it seems, despite the fact that there is a regulation that requires stopping the activity if safety and health cannot be guaranteed. To date, there are three people who have died in Spain due to heat stroke at work and, if measures are not taken, there is a risk of increasing the number.
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