Cold and heat strain during cold-weather field training with nuclear, biological, and chemical protective clothing

Military Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 128-132

  Rissanen, Sirkka ^a   Rintamäki, Hannu ^a  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLD EXPOSURE; COLD STRESS; COOLING; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EXERCISE; HEART RATE; HEAT STRESS; HEATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TRAINING;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHEMICAL WARFARE; COLD TEMPERATURE; EXERCISE TEST; HEART RATE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NUCLEAR WARFARE; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SPRAINS AND STRAINS; WAR; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33846906265     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.172.2.128     Document Type: Article

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