Literature review of staff thermal comfort and patient "thermal risks" in operating rooms

HB 2006 - Healthy Buildings: Creating a Healthy Indoor Environment for People, Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 11-14

  Melhado, M A ^a   Hensen, J L M ^a   Loomans, M ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Operating room; Preventing hypothermia; Thermal comfort

Indexed keywords

LITERATURE REVIEWS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY;

HYPOTHERMIA; OPERATING ROOMS;

THERMAL COMFORT;

EID: 84871605550     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (15)

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