Prediction of survival time at sea based on observed body cooling rates

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 441-448

  Tikuisis, Peter ^a  

^a DEF AND CIV INST OF ENVIRON MED   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; COLD STRESS; HEAT LOSS; IMMERSION; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SEA; SURVIVAL TIME; THERMOGENESIS; WATER TEMPERATURE;

BODY TEMPERATURE; CLOTHING; COLD; FORECASTING; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; IMMERSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SHIVERING; SURVIVAL; THINNESS;

EID: 0030900623     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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