Resistance index of frostbite as a predictor of cold injury in arctic operations

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1119-1122

  Daanen, Hein A M ^a   Van Der Struijs, Norbert R ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b Royal Netherlands Navy   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cold induced vasodilation; Cold injuries; Frostbite; Screening

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; COLD EXPOSURE; COLD INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAVY; PREDICTION; SCREENING TEST; VASODILATATION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARCTIC REGIONS; COLD; FINGERS; FROSTBITE; HUMANS; IMMERSION; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE SENSE; VASODILATION;

EID: 28844461993     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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