Current and future cooling technologies used in preventing heat illness and improving work capacity for battlefield soldiers: Review of the literature

Military Medicine

Volumn 173, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 653-657

  O'Hara, Reginald ^a   Eveland, Ed ^a   Fortuna, Sarah ^a   Reilly, Patricia ^a   Pohlman, Roberta ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; CORE TEMPERATURE; EXERCISE; HEAT INJURY; HEAT STRESS; HUMAN; REVIEW; SOLDIER; TECHNOLOGY; WORK CAPACITY;

EID: 47749148372     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.173.7.653     Document Type: Review

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