EMS Heat-related Illness Incidents by Gender and Year

This dataset contains Emergency Medical Services (EMS) information for reported emergency response incidents in Virginia that involve heat-related illness (HRI), as defined using heat-related protocols; heat-related ICD-10-CM codes in the cause of injury, primary impression, and secondary impressions fields; and key terms in the patient complaint and narrative text fields. The full case definition is available on this Virginia Department of Health Office of EMS data requests webpage under ‘Case Definitions’: vdh.virginia.gov/emergency-medical-services/ems-trauma-data/data-requests/.

These data only represent HRI patients who interacted with the EMS system and do not represent HRI patients who reported directly to an emergency room or did not seek medical care. Therefore, these data should not be interpreted as the total number of HRI incidents in a community. Data in this dataset have been provided by ESO on behalf of the Office of EMS.