The Effect of a Commercially Available Burn-cooling Blanket on Core Body Temperatures in Volunteers

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 686-690

  Singer, Adam J ^a   Freidman, Brenda ^a   Modi, Prachi ^a   Soroff, Harry H ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

blanket; burns; cooling; evaporation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BURN; COOLING; CORE TEMPERATURE; EVAPORATION; FEMALE; HEAT LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; VITAL SIGN; VOLUNTEER; WATER LOSS;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BURNS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHIVERING; WATER LOSS, INSENSIBLE;

EID: 33646539767     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.01.018     Document Type: Article

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