“Heat is just something we know we need to be really worried about,” Dr. Geoff Comp, an emergency medicine specialist at Valleywise Health Medical Center in Phoenix, AZ. Emergency departments in places like Arizona and Texas have long experience in dealing with heat waves and adaptation and Dr. Comp will speak to the changing number and severity of heat related illness he sees in clinical practice, as well as some novel treatment strategies for extreme heat. As the planet warms, areas not used to extreme heat have the potential to become a “mass casualty event”. The greatest pressure on emergency care comes when temperatures stay high for several days, and brownouts or power outages occur. “There’s a domino effect." Dr. Comp will address how his community has begun to adapt and the City of Boise will discuss how they are planning for a climate resilient community in the face of extreme heat.

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