Warming by immersion or exercise affects initial cooling rate during subsequent cold water immersion

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 956-963

  Scott, Chris G ^a   Ducharme, Michel B ^a,c   Haman, François ^b   Kenny, Glen P ^a,b  

^a School of Human Kinetics   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cold exposure; Cold water survival; Exercise; Functional time; Warm water immersion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; CORE TEMPERATURE; DYNAMIC EXERCISE; ESOPHAGUS; HEAT LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; WATER IMMERSION;

ADULT; BODY TEMPERATURE; ESOPHAGUS; EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; IMMERSION; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; REWARMING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 7244248542     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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