A comparison of mountain rescue casualty bags in a cold, windy environment

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 36-44

  Grant, Stanley J ^a   Dowsett, David ^a   Hutchison, Colin ^a   Newell, John ^b   Connor, Tracy ^c   Grant, Pat ^d   Watt, Martin ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d WESTERN INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^e MONKLANDS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cold; Hypothermia; Mountain rescue casualty bags; Rest; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARM; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; BODY FAT; CALCULATION; COLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; DEVICE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RESCUE PERSONNEL; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE SENSE; THERMOREGULATION; THIGH; THORAX; WIND;

EID: 0036129950     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1580/1080-6032(2002)013[0036:ACOMRC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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