A method for determining the heat transfer and water vapour permeability of patient support systems

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 701-712

  Nicholson, Graham P ^a   Scales, John T ^a   Clark, Raymond P ^b   De Calcina Goff, Mervyn L ^b  

^a RAFT Institute of Plastic Surgery   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cushions; Heat transfer; Mattresses; Moisture; Patient support systems; Thermodynamics; Water vapour permeability

Indexed keywords

HEAT LOSSES; HEAT TRANSFER; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MOISTURE; SKIN; THERMODYNAMICS;

PATIENT SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; BED; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DECUBITUS; HEAT TRANSFER; HUMAN; MOISTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN FUNCTION; TECHNICAL AID; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER VAPOR;

AIR; BEDS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEATING; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; MATERIALS TESTING; PERMEABILITY; POLYURETHANES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; VOLATILIZATION; WATER;

EID: 0033500813     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4533(00)00003-5     Document Type: Article

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