Life jacket design affects dorsal head and chest exposure, core cooling, and cognition in 10°C water

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 954-962

  Lockhart, Tamara L ^a   Jamieson, Christopher P ^a   Steinman, Alan M ^b   Giesbrecht, Gordon G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b U S PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold water survival; Hypothermia; Personal flotation device; PFD; Survival prediction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COOLING; CORE TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FLOTATION; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHERMIA; IMMERSION; LIFE JACKET; LOGIC; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PACED AUDITORY SERIAL ADDITION TEST; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING;

ACCIDENTS; ADULT; BODY TEMPERATURE; COGNITION DISORDERS; COLD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAD; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SURVIVAL; THORAX; WATER;

EID: 26444434356     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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