Efficacy of wrist/palm warming as an EVA countermeasure to maintain finger comfort in cold conditions

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 713-719

  Koscheyev, V S ^a   Leon, G R ^a   Trevino R C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Finger comfort; Thermoregulation; Wrist palm warming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLD TOLERANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; FINGER BLOOD FLOW; GLOVE; HAND PALM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SPACE FLIGHT; WARMING; WRIST;

NASA DISCIPLINE LIFE SCIENCES TECHNOLOGIES; NON-NASA CENTER;

ADULT; COLD; FEMALE; FINGERS; GLOVES, PROTECTIVE; HEAT; HUMANS; MALE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0034886050     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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