Medics use body-bag ice treatment on patients

An unrelenting heatwave continues to scorch overmuch of the confederate US, leaving much than 90 cardinal Americans nether a vigor advisory.

In Phoenix, temperatures deed 110F (37C) for the 19th consecutive day, shattering the city's erstwhile record.

Officials said hospitals were utilizing assemblage bags filled with crystal to chill down immoderate patients who person overheated.

Temperatures are acceptable to beryllium dangerously precocious crossed the US each week.

An oppressive vigor dome has settled implicit overmuch of the US South, sending temperatures soaring from Florida to California.

More than 12,000 record-high temperatures person been recorded successful the US truthful acold this year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Arizona's largest inferior work said customers broke the grounds for astir energy utilized astatine once, arsenic residents blasted aerial conditioners to flight the heat.

Persistent vulnerability to utmost vigor tin pb to vigor exhaustion, dizziness, fainting and headaches arsenic humor unit drops.

In Phoenix, 12 radical person died aft suffering effects owed to the existent excessive heat, officials said.

Doctors astatine the Valleywise Health Medical Center, told CNN the effects of the unrelenting vigor were overwhelming the healthcare system.

"The infirmary has not been this engaged with overflow since a fewer peaks successful the Covid pandemic," exigency country doc Frank LoVecchio told the outlet.

A infirmary authoritative said exigency country doctors are placing patients successful assemblage bags filled with ice, successful utmost cases, successful an effort to chill them down.

In an interrogation with the wellness quality outlet, Stat News, exigency doc Dr Geoff Comp, who helped make the life-saving protocol, said assemblage bags were perfect for treating vigor changeable victims due to the fact that they could chill idiosyncratic doubly arsenic rapidly arsenic accepted methods.

Patients are immersed successful the ice-filled bags, which are waterproof and person capable country for doctors to execute immoderate procedures, according to Stat News.

In Las Vegas, sweltering temperatures person stunned adjacent seasoned exigency responders. Las Vegas paramedic David Shilling estimates calls to exigency services person soared by 40% - mostly from tourists who are not yet acclimatised to the city.

People who are visiting often don't realise however acold they person to locomotion successful the prima connected the Las Vegas Strip, Mr Shilling said.

"It's a precise agelong region and due to the fact that radical get truthful enamoured with each the ample buildings and spectacles successful the lights, they don't realise they're being dehydrated," helium said.

In the weeks earlier the vigor dome settled implicit the state, Las Vegas had been unusually cool. It recorded much than 260 consecutive days beneath 100F (38C).

But the soaring temperatures returned with a vengeance, with small informing oregon clip for radical to acclimatise. "It snuck up connected us," Mr Shilling said. "So we've seen radical that are feeling dizzy, their hearts are racing, radical are passing retired radical are being truly overwhelmed."

Meteorologist Trevor Boucher told BBC News 1 crushed the Las Vegas vigor feels truthful relentless is due to the fact that determination is small respite. Instead of vigor escaping during the night, Mr Boucher said the crushed continues to bespeak the vigor it absorbed during the day.

"Temperatures tin conflict to autumn beneath 90F (32C) successful immoderate cases. And if you don't person entree to cooling, past you're stuck successful 90 grade temperatures for 24 hours," helium said.

And those precocious temperatures impact the susceptible the astir severely.

Patty and Alan Baker are 2 of respective 1000 surviving successful Las Vegas without a home. They spoke to BBC News extracurricular a cooling presumption and structure successful downtown Las Vegas.

"We're surviving, but we're sweating a lot," Patty said. "You know, we're fortunate that we person entree to shelter. They person fans successful determination and we get a mat. So that helps a lot."

"We are elder citizens but you cognize we bent successful there," Alan said.

Heatwaves person go much frequent, much intense, and past longer due to the fact that of human-induced clime change.

The satellite has already warmed by astir 1.9F (1.1C) since the concern epoch began and temperatures volition support rising unless governments astir the satellite marque steep cuts to emissions.