Heat stress reduction of helicopter crew wearing a ventilated vest

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 545-550

  Reffeltrath, Peter A ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Body temperature; Flight performance; Personal cooling; Thermal comfort; Tolerance time

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ADULT; AERATION; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; FEMALE; FLIGHT; HEAT STRESS; HEAT TOLERANCE; HELICOPTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTILATED VEST;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; BODY TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; TEMPERATURE; VENTILATION;

EID: 33646492284     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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