Assessment of Thermal Comfort During Surgical Operations

ASHRAE Winter Meeting CD, Technical and Symposium Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 65-74

  Mora, Rodrigo ^a   English, Michael J M ^b,c   Athienitis, Andreas K ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SURGICAL OPERATIONS; THERMAL COMFORT;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; HEAT RADIATION; HEAT RESISTANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPERATING ROOMS; SURGERY; ZONING;

AIR CONDITIONING;

EID: 1842488282     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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