Physical and cognitive performance during long-term cold weather operations

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 744-752

  Marrao, Claudia ^a   Tikuisis, Peter ^b   Keefe, Allan A ^b   Gil, Valerie ^b   Giesbrecht, Gordon G ^a,c  

^a Laboratory for Exercise and Environmental Medicine   (Canada)

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cold exposure; Military training; Survival training; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ADULT; AIR TEMPERATURE; ALERTNESS; ARM; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COGNITION; COLD EXPOSURE; COLD SENSATION; CORE TEMPERATURE; DETERIORATION; EQUIPMENT; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND FUNCTION; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDRATION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PLANNING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAFETY; SOLDIER; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WINTER;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; BODY TEMPERATURE; COGNITION; COLD; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MOTOR SKILLS; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PROGNOSIS; SAFETY; SURVIVAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 23044513941     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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